US Three-year-old boy in Texas shoots and kills himself at his own birthday party

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Three-year-old boy in Texas shoots and kills himself at his own birthday party​

Harriet Alexander
The IndependentOctober 25, 2020
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A pistol fell out of a family member’s pocket in Texas and was found by a toddler celebrating his birthday (Getty)

A three-year-old boy in Texas has died at his own birthday party after finding a family member’s gun and accidentally shooting himself in the chest.

The accident happened on Saturday afternoon in Porter, 30 miles from downtown Houston.

“Family and friends had gathered earlier to celebrate the birthday of the three-year-old, and while playing cards, heard a gunshot,” the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said.

“The child was located with a gunshot wound to the chest.”

A pistol had fallen out of the pocket of one of someone in the family, they said. The toddler was taken to a nearby fire station, and pronounced dead.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of this tragic accident.”

Children finding guns and killing themselves and others is depressingly common in the United States.

It is at least the fifth fatal accidental shooting by a child this year in Texas, according to a tally kept by activist group Everytown For Gun Safety – meaning that Texas is tied with Tennessee for the highest number of such shootings in 2020.

There have been at least 229 unintentional shootings by children in 2020, it calculates, with 97 deaths and 139 injuries.

An estimated 4.6 million American children live in homes with at least one gun that is loaded and unlocked, the organisation says.

Every year, hundreds of American children gain access to firearms and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.

The campaign group Be Smart recommends guns be stored unloaded, locked in a case, and placed in a secure locked box with the ammunition stored separately.

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So......Why the hell would anybody bring a gun to a 3 year olds birthday party exactly? and someone has a gun fall out of their pocket and doesn't notice its missing, and nobody at the party sees it? The whole thing sounds a little off considering the situation and circumstances

 

[NerdShamer]

It takes a special kind of ignorance to not notice that a gun has fallen out of your pocket.

Most Texans that I've seen have an holster for them instead of carrying in their back pocket like a jogger.

 

[Governor Jeb Bush]

Parents need necking

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

So......Why the hell would anybody bring a gun to a 3 year olds birthday party exactly? and someone has a gun fall out of their pocket and doesn't notice its missing, and nobody at the party sees it? The whole thing sounds a little off considering the situation and circumstances

ummm...because they're a nigger, is why. What if somebody scuffed his Jordans and he was unableto kill them?! Talk about losing face in the 'hood....

I don't see why a bday party would be offlimits, have you seen how they act at funerals?

 

[NerdShamer]

So......Why the hell would anybody bring a gun to a 3 year olds birthday party exactly? and someone has a gun fall out of their pocket and doesn't notice its missing, and nobody at the party sees it? The whole thing sounds a little off considering the situation and circumstances

ummm...because they're a nigger, is why. What if somebody scuffed his Jordans and he was unableto kill them?! Talk about losing face in the 'hood....

I don't see why a bday party would be offlimits, have you seen how they act at funerals?

You can open-carry in Texas...As long as you have a permit for it, farther proof that it might be a jogger. I mean, it costs $40 for the permit, itself. You can't be a convicted felon or have committed any misdemeanors within a certain time period. Plus, you will be turned down if you've fallen behind on child support.

 

[TowinKarz]

Judging by how they refuse to give the family's names, I'm going to assume there's joggery afoot.
Poor kid caught himself lacking.

Nah, it's probably Taco Americans at work...

Porter, TX appears to be 50% Hispanic. And less than 3% Black.

See?

 

[Snekposter]

If black people are joggers, what's the best word for Hispanics? Climbers? Leapers?

 

[Vince McMahon]

If black people are joggers, what's the best word for Hispanics? Climbers? Leapers?

Swimmers.

Because "wetbacks".

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I was just about to say this, if you're going to carry a piece at least secure it properly. No wonder so many people want guns banned.

These are the gun owners that give the rest of us a bad name.

Yes, that's the kind of news that makes it outside USA and makes you all gun-crazy lunatics while ignoring that the numbers of these occurrences is pretty low.

I mean, I have friends who are basically RW MAGAs here in my country and they support nationalism, conservatism, traditionalism, etc, but if you talk them about the Second Amendment and the right to carry guns for self-defence, they go full leftist about it: "but the children! think of the children that are dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[Snekposter]

Swimmers.

Because "wetbacks".

That would actually be "waders". The Rio Grande is shockingly shallow despite the name.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

The press release on FB mentions 23000 Block of Owens Rd in Porter, TX. Couldn't really get a feel for the place looking at the street view and I'm too lazy to search property records.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Yes, that's the kind of news that makes it outside USA and makes you all gun-crazy lunatics while ignoring that the numbers of these occurrences is pretty low.

I mean, I have friends who are basically RW MAGAs here in my country and they support nationalism, conservatism, traditionalism, etc, but if you talk them about the Second Amendment and the right to carry guns for self-defence, they go full leftist about it: "but the children! think of the children that are dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Lmao nobody look up accidental drownings.

 

[Cold Root Beer]

The way this year has been going, I can't blame the kid for taking the easy way out.

 

[Miss Misery]

The press release on FB mentions 23000 Block of Owens Rd in Porter, TX. Couldn't really get a feel for the place looking at the street view and I'm too lazy to search property records.

I did. It's a very long block with an even mix of whites and Hispanics.

Edit: A bigger clue might be who would bring a loaded handgun in a pocket to a 3 year old's birthday party and then not notice when it falls out while they're playing cards?

I've got family in Texas and IMHO? I could see it going either way between rednecks and Mexicans.

Except I feel like the rednecks would have totally had a holster.

 

[haurchefant]

Rednecks would have a holster at the very least, it protects your weapon from wear and tear and you know where it is at all times. They're protective of their guns. Only a gangbanger who wears his pants around his ankles at all times would be dumb enough to keep a loaded weapon in his pocket.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I did. It's a very long block with an even mix of whites and Hispanics.

Edit: A bigger clue might be who would bring a loaded handgun in a pocket to a 3 year old's birthday party and then not notice when it falls out while they're playing cards?

I've got family in Texas and IMHO? I could see it going either way between rednecks and Mexicans.

Except I feel like the rednecks would have totally had a holster.

It had to be rednecks. Hispanics don't play cards, they play dominoes.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

*3 year old looks around and sees everyone at his party wearing masks (and it's not even Halloween )and applying hand sanitizer every 5 minutes.*

"Honey, it's time for cake! But you cant blow out the candles because it might kill grandma, so you'll have to eat around the wax."

*3 year old thinks to himself: "how did God's greatest creation fall so low? What happened to our humanity?"*

*Defeated, he looks down at the ground. "Has Our Lord answered my prayer?" as he spots a gun neglectedly left on the ground by his cousin Carlos, who is out on parole. He picks it up, "finally, an escape from this Hell we've made on Earth. I'm coming lord!"*

*BANG!*

I assume they're Hispanic, so they're probably very Catholic.

 

[Temporal Refugee]

It is at least the fifth fatal accidental shooting by a child this year in Texas, according to a tally kept by activist group Everytown For Gun Safety – meaning that Texas is tied with Tennessee for the highest number of such shootings in 2020.

There have been at least 229 unintentional shootings by children in 2020, it calculates, with 97 deaths and 139 injuries.

An estimated 4.6 million American children live in homes with at least one gun that is loaded and unlocked, the organisation says.

Autism activated.

In other words:
- 0.005% of American children were party to an unintentional shooting this year*
- 5% of fatal shootings involving a child (involving 0.0001% of American children) happened in one of the top 3 most pro gun states in the US.
- Texas had the same number of fatal accidental shootings by a child as a state commonly ranked dead middle on gun friendliness

* - Assuming each of the incidents involved mishandling of a firearm by a separate kid (ie no one kid mishandling firearms twice in the same year)

There's also a lot of weasel language in the presentation of these figures.
- It leads with the overall figure for unintentional shootings by children then breaks it down to number of fatal and non-fatal, rather than relaying percentages (70% fatal btw). In other words, it leads with the biggest, scariest number first.
- It uses loaded language to inflate the weight of five total shootings in an entire year, likely because gun-toting texans bad
- It counts by incident, rather than by child. A much more useful metric in this discussion would be how many households neglected to secure their arms safely.
- It makes no distinction as to whether these figures pertain to legal firearms Johnny found in Bob and Barb's nightstands, or illegally obtained guns that fell out of Carlos or Shayquan's waistbands.

Also, why the fuck is a UK publication reporting a random-ass gun accident in Texas? What relevance does that have to those whipped dogs who get arrested for having fucking steak knives?

EDIT:

Since we're talking figures here, there were over 400 acid attacks in Britain between Jan-Apr 2017. Just a fun fact for the readers.

 

[mr.moon1488]

There have been at least 229 unintentional shootings by children in 2020, it calculates, with 97 deaths and 139 injuries.

An estimated 4.6 million American children live in homes with at least one gun that is loaded and unlocked, the organisation says.

Children finding guns and killing themselves and others is depressingly common in the United States.

Also, since Britbongs want to talk about the scary guns around kids problem...

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

If black people are joggers, what's the best word for Hispanics? Climbers? Leapers?

This is an EZ one. Gophers.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Did nobody hear the gun hit the floor? Also, what is it with three year old kids killing themselves?

It was probably somewhat loud if it was a birthday party.

Still 100% inexcusable. Why even bring the gun to the party?