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    jesus wept

    fresh off the CHCH PRESS website
    a 17month old temuka child was shot in the back of the head by his father who was removing a loaded air rifle from a wardrobe. the child has been flown to starship hospital.
    my comments are unprintable , but i will say this - if humans are the so called most intelligent of all mammmal species ,the rest are rooted!

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    FFS!😠

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    You are damned right R93. That guy is a bloody mammmal.

    As long as we have weapons we will have accidents, but this sort of accident is too tragic for words and we the gun owners will pay in some little way down the track for every one of them.
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    17mth old in stable condition now. What a retard that ########!!!
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    Tragic in the extreme. Totally preventable. Clearly we are not the most intelligent species.
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    Guns always loaded and the horse always kicks. (Anyone know if this saying came from a very old film I saw when I was a kid called the Sundowner's). First time I heard it an I am just curious. I know its on someone's avatar

    I bet kids put the slug gun away in the Cupboard loaded.

    No excuse though it should never have been pointed at another human.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kotuku View Post
    fresh off the CHCH PRESS website
    a 17month old temuka child was shot in the back of the head by his father who was removing a loaded air rifle from a wardrobe. the child has been flown to starship hospital.
    my comments are unprintable , but i will say this - if humans are the so called most intelligent of all mammmal species ,the rest are rooted!
    Your right Kotuku

    Even evolution isn't perfect ......... some of us are still definitely related more closer to the Apes than others.

    Hope the little fella is ok.

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    why have a child anywhere near you when you handle any bloody weapon.cousin came round today ,bloody keen shooter -training his grandson whose smackin em over whilst grandad takes some exceptional photography and his reaction was just to shake his head.
    hes 73 ,i turn 60 2weeks today and when i was a kid ,the fucking rule was simple -you dont touch or even go near a firearm unless an adult told you and even then you stayed bloody still.
    Mine are all in my mancave ,and my rule is simple -If i dont like you -about turn and fuck off you aint even gonna get a sniff of gunoil.
    even my own clan (all adults) will not touch my guns nor my chainsaws without my ok- to do so will provoke a charge worthy of any scrub bull with PMT herpes or just fuckin plain bad attitude -I kid you not .I can kill myself easily with either but thats my mistake my doing -I wont accept anyone even getting an injury If those weapons bear my name as I AM RESPONSIBLE-and that fucking includes my air rifle and my BB gun.
    MY POINT- whoever put that air rifle away loaded-we dont know -but ultimately as the adult in the house our role is to set an example whatever it is ,especially in dangerous situations. my kids NEVER touch BBgun or airrifle without my OK or me being present. no ifs buts or exceptions! why decide to take the thing out without being aware of the immediate surrounds first.

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    Copied this off the ninemsn news site here in oz. Hope the little tacker is ok. Father must be devastated, and so he should be.

    9:06am October 7, 2014

    New Zealand dad accidentally shoots toddler son in the back of the head

    A New Zealand father has accidentally shot his 17-month-old son in the back of the head with an air rifle as he was taking it out of a bedroom wardrobe.

    The toddler is in a stable condition in Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital, The Timaru Herald reports.

    Police are investigating the incident, which happened on Friday night at Temuka, two hours south of Christchurch.

    It is not illegal to own an air rifle without a licence, the newspaper reports.

    "As an air rifle was taken out of a wardrobe, it was discharged, hitting a child in the back of the head," Sergeant Geoff McCrostie said.

    Canterbury Rural Area Commander Inspector Dave Gaskin said although air rifles could be bought without a firearms licence, "they are not toys and can cause serious harm when used incorrectly"

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    What the fuck was a loaded air rifle doing in his cupboard, the guy is a moron with very little regard for safety
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    Wow guys, maybe a bit less self-righteous indignation and a bit more compassion for both the father and his wee boy...

    Can any of you honestly say that they have NEVER handled a firearm and assumed it was unloaded, or NEVER had the muzzle of a firearm sweep another person ?

    It takes a second for something to go wrong.

    And until the police investigation is complete and made public, I doubt if any one on here has all the facts...
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    I think we'd all confess to making a dum decision with a firearm at least once. I admit I'm pretty paranoid about safety, and I make sure my son / mates are the same. Don't want to cast stones here, maybe a single act of carelessness with tragic consequences. Personally I don't think, if it were me, I'd want to pick up a firearm again. Hope the kid recovers.
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    I can honestly say I have never put away or secured a loaded and cocked firearm.
    No excuse for that kind of stupidity.


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    [QUOTE=R93;302336]I can honestly say I have never put away or secured a loaded and cocked firearm.
    No excuse for that kind of stupidity.

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