Thread: Angry 4-year-old blasts babysitter with shotgun

Originally Posted by Mid

Cops: Angry 4-year-old blasts babysitter with shotgun
January 06, 2009

Police say a 4-year-old boy shot his babysitter Sunday because the 17-year-old stepped on his foot.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the boy "retrieved a shell from a drawer in a back bedroom, grabbed a 20-gauge single-shot shotgun from a closet and loaded the weapon ... returned to the living room, and in front of another 17-year-old boy and other children, shot [Nathan] Beavers."

Beavers was treated for wounds from the birdshot, the paper says. The blast also injured another Jackson County, Ohio, teen, according to the Associated Press.

The shooter, who we're not identifying because of his age, isn't facing any charges.

"He knew it was wrong. He'd seen guns loaded and shot before, but he's never seen the carnage it makes when it hits. He knows it now," his father tells WBNS-TV.

blogs.usatoday.com

Originally Posted by Muadib

Look Ma, I popped a cap in the lezbo babysitter...

...and in front of another 17-year-old boy and other children, shot [Nathan] Beavers."

"Nathan" is a lesbian?

Originally Posted by plorf

Funny the father would teach a 4year old how to shoot and load a shotgun, but forget to tell him what it does. Agree, has to be in the US.

Perhaps Dad did tell him what a shotgun does...& thus the shooting?
I can just hear the yank drawl now (very similar to some Aussie "rednecks" I unfortunately know), "Boy, you never haf to take shit from anyone if you got a gun." So much for basic human respect...it means nothing...when you've got a gun.

Too many guns in this world...particularly in the USA. Get rid of the bloody things!!!