If only she was armed.

[Metallifux]

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

What about the girl being trained to use an UZI and accidentally shot and killed the instructor.

 

[pepsilol]

Just ban guns altogether.

No ordinary civilian needs a gun.

 

[Andybtsn]

"I want her back in my arms," she said.

That makes me sad, as a father I love hugs with my little girl, can't imagine life without her.

 

[C.R.A.Z.Y]

Utterly tragic and what's most depressing so avoidable.
But nothing will change, if the horrific slaughter at sandy hook didn't change anything I'm not sure what would!!

 

[MooMoo444]

Unbelievable for a child to be in possession of something like that at that age. A puppy needs a mature owner and to be loved.

 

[thebennyboy]

The boy shouldn't of had access to any gun, period. Bad parenting at it's finest, the parents should be in court being charged with accessory to murder.

 

[Danthus]

Lets spare a thought for the boy to, he is going to grow up carrying this event with him for the rest of his life.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

A terrible thing to happen, parental negligence, unnecessary weapons stored in a dangerous manner.

A needless death, RIP to the little girl.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

America doesn't have too many guns, it has too much stupid.

 

[DR_Pingu]

Fantastic news - I bet the boy's parent(s) still keeps weapons!

Seriously though, RIP to the girl. My hat is tipped as to how ****ing stupid America makes itself look. I'd imagine Obama just might take action because of this.

 

[Hitman_Leon]

Lets spare a thought for the boy to, he is going to grow up carrying this event with him for the rest of his life.

Indeed, his parents have probably destroyed their own son/family too.

 

[squerble]

The boy shot the girl from inside his home with his father's 12-gauge shotgun

senseless

 

[Semple]

Just ban guns altogether.

No ordinary civilian needs a gun.

This really!

What will actually come of the boy? a murder charge at the age of 11, i have no idea what sort of punishments they dish out for these sorts of crimes. In some states if he was an adult he would be executed.

 

[boxman2000]

Absolutely tragic story - I couldn't begin to imagine how hard it is for the parents of the girl.

There needs to be a revolution in America to ban these things.

Good job the last American revolution was fought with only nasty words, the occasional spraying of pre-masticated tobacco and not guns.

 

[theone8181]

Unfortunately the horse has bolted now and theres no stopping the spread of guns. I think it must be a little like keeping up with the joneses.

 

[trickycurve]

Awful, utterly horrific.

So glad we have stricter gun laws in the UK.

Even if just secure storage was a requirement, like it is here for shotguns.

Of course the kid is mentally ill, but if he physically couldn't access the gun this wouldn't have happened.

 

[russell664]

Christ.

The American gun culture played a big part in this.

Utterly horrific. RIP to the wee lassy concerned.

 

[Tefal]

senseless

yeah its not so much an accident as an assassination

 

[Tefal]

Even if just secure storage was a requirement, like it is here for shotguns.

Of course the kid is mentally ill, but if he physically couldn't access the gun this wouldn't have happened.

thing is how secure does the storage have to be?

key? kid can find the spare

combination? kid can overlook daddy entering it enough times to learn it

 

[sansnom]

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

I think the gun helps?