If only she was armed.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34450841

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee has been held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old girl in a row over a puppy.
The boy has been charged with first-degree murder as a juvenile.
According to police, he shot neighbour McKayla Dyer on Saturday evening after she refused to let him see her puppy.

Her mother Latasha said that the two children went to the same school in White Pine, about 200 miles (315km) east of Nashville.

She said the family had had trouble with the boy when they first moved to the area.

"He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her. I had to go to the principal about him and he quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her," Ms Dyer told WATE-TV.

"She was a precious little girl. She was mommy's girl. No matter how bad of a mood you were in, she could always make you smile."
"I want her back in my arms," she said.

The Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organisation that compiles data on gun violence in the US, says 559 children aged 11 or under have been killed or injured in the United States in gun violence so far this year.
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If you lock your guns away they are no use as you can't grab them to protect yourself, if they are left insecure this sort of things happen.

I assume the likes of the NRA will be saying eight year old girls shouldn't go out now without packing a piece, just to be safe.
 
There needs to be a revolution in America to ban these things. However we know how weak minded the general American population is. Look at the Arab spring, people who weren't afraid of death to get what they wanted.
 
Bad parenting - boy should have been trained to properly respect the power, danger, and responsibility of the gun.

Guns don't kill people, uneducated kids do...

/NRA
 
cheesyboy said:
Bad parenting - boy should have been trained to properly respect the power, danger, and responsibility of the gun.

Guns don't kill people, uneducated kids do...

/NRA
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The situation is so ridiculous, that you know this is exactly what Wayne Lapierre will be droning on about at the next conference.
 
OldCoals said:
If you lock your guns away they are no use as you can't grab them to protect yourself, if they are left insecure this sort of things happen.
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Tragic for the poor girl involved.

However, surely there'd be some sense in having a child-proof small trigger lock on your guns, if you're going to leave them around for easy access?

Would seem sensible to me... but then again, I'm not American...
 
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