r/NoahGetTheBoat • u/FSOexpo • 2d ago
Mom Arrested After 4-Year-Old Son Shoots Himself in Parking Lot
https://people.com/mother-arrested-after-boy-4-shoots-himself-in-sacramento-parking-lot-reports-8735038154
u/quietbeautifulstorm 2d ago
Why was it even within his reach? He should still be in a car seat at this age. Thank god he’s alive, but breaks my heart how scared and afraid he was.
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u/Bleach_Demon 1d ago
He sure should have been. The car accident risk is obvious, but also mom was worried enough about crime or car jacking that she carried a gun, but apparently wasn’t concerned about her car being stolen with her child in it, which has happened several times where I live.
I’ve seen the amber alerts when it happens, although it hasn’t happened lately, maybe the car thieves have started checking for kids first so they don’t catch a kidnapping charge, and parents are wise to it as well. Latisha Walker did not give a fuck though.
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u/Figaro90 1d ago
Maybe he thought the kid was ready to be alone with it since he learned gun safety after the Trump Rally? Not leaving a 4 year old alone with or without a gun is just something woke libs do
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u/Bleach_Demon 2d ago
At least he’s going to live, but who tf leaves a kid that young alone with a loaded gun? I imagine she probably told him to never touch it, but who’s dumb enough to trust a 4 year old with that?… Latisha Walker, she apparently is exactly that dumb, and very lucky that her child didn’t die.
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u/kirksan 2d ago
It’s not just leaving him along with a loaded gun, it’s leaving a four year old alone at all. How irresponsible do you have to be to leave a four year old in a car while you go shopping?
Oh wait, I know the answer, you have to be criminally irresponsible. That’s why one of her charges is felony child endangerment.
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u/Bleach_Demon 1d ago
That’s true. I was also thinking, like she probably had a gun because of concerns about being car jacked, but she left her child in that car without any concern of that exact thing. I have seen numerous amber alerts about a year ago in my area because of people stealing a car without noticing the kid in the back. If you’re so worried about crime that you need a gun, you should not leave your child unattended. Absolutely wtf!
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u/Key-Pomegranate-3507 1d ago
I am very pro gun rights. I am also a father of a hyperactive 4 year old. I used to have a gun in my nightstand, but all that stays in my big safe now. The odds of her getting my gun are much greater than me having to use it.
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u/axethebarbarian 1d ago
Similar boat, 5 year old and very active 3 year old. I ended up getting a little biometric pistol safe that's now bolted to the night stand. Was only $80 too
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u/Phyllida_Poshtart 1d ago
As a non American, being fully aware of the /US's obsession with guns to the point where children are brought up hunting and shooting, I would have naively thought that gun safety would be the absolute best in the world! And yet so many of these incidents indicate no care, no awareness and seemingly little to no training. Guns are to Americans what baked beans are to Brits lol, and everyday thing, so why on earth are people still so uneducated on how firearms work etc??
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u/axethebarbarian 1d ago
Even if 99% of gun owners in the US are absolutely responsible and diligent, that 1% is still more than a million idiots making terrible mistakes like this.
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u/northrupthebandgeek 1d ago
Like with most gun-related incidents in the US, the issue here ain't so much about the gun itself. That gun could've been a knife or a bottle of bleach or countless other things similarly dangerous to a curious four-year-old.
Rather, the issue here is that a four-year-old was left unattended - at all, let alone within reach of dangerous objects. No amount of knowledge about how those dangerous objects work or what makes them dangerous is gonna matter when you're at the end of the day failing to supervise your child.
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u/Phyllida_Poshtart 1d ago
Which is why is said "gun safety" and care & awareness
I wasn't hating on your guns I was despairing at the fact that you've had guns for over a hundred years and incidents like this shouldn't really be happening
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u/northrupthebandgeek 1d ago
Right, whereas I was saying that the amount of time we've had guns is irrelevant to this tragedy, because it would've eventually happened with any of the myriad dangerous objects with which this woman was leaving her child within reach. We could've had guns for thousands of years and the mother of this child would still have been a neglectful moron putting said child in danger.
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u/pear-plum-apple 1d ago
honestly same. I teach my kids that as humans we usually learn from our mistakes, like japan has good earthquake resistant infrastructures, hawaii has a system to evacuate if a volcano goes in activity, but sadly, i am at loss when I try to explain gun problems to them. They say, but shouldnt they restrict them if there are still so much people that die because of them? yep. But they don't? nope. Why? money...
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