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

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.

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Yes violence is coming from an ever younger age group. Very strange indeed.Seems to be happening all over the world. Or is it only in places with a television ?

Originally Posted by billy the kid

Originally Posted by billy the kid

Yes violence is coming from an ever younger age group. Very strange indeed.Seems to be happening all over the world. Or is it only in places with a television ?

Blame it on the "Grand Theft Auto" game...

WTF was a shotgun and ammo doing where a bloody 4 year old can get it ?

Sheesh, little bit more responsibility please. The father should be charged with attempted murder or something. Maybe next time he will lock the fucking gun away !

Originally Posted by Mid

"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,"

Phew! That's alright then.

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

Originally Posted by billy the kid

Yes violence is coming from an ever younger age group. Very strange indeed.Seems to be happening all over the world. Or is it only in places with a television ?

Not strange at all. This violent gene is very selective and not that prevelent worldwide.....

Should either try the little fucker as an adult, or maybe take him trap shootring to sharpen his aim a tad.
But he pobly be more comfortable with a .410, less recoil and weight.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Quote: Originally Posted by billy the kid View Post Yes violence is coming from an ever younger age group. Very strange indeed.Seems to be happening all over the world. Or is it only in places with a television ? Not strange at all. This violent gene is very selective and not that prevelent worldwide....

Must have originated in Thailand then

....better chance of fermenting in the West

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Not strange at all. This violent gene is very selective and not that prevelent worldwide.....

Been smoking some good ganja, again?

'violence is not that prevalent worldwide' ??

You're funny.

Originally Posted by davearn

WTF was a shotgun and ammo doing where a bloody 4 year old can get it ?

Sheesh, little bit more responsibility please. The father should be charged with attempted murder or something. Maybe next time he will lock the fucking gun away !

Definitely a clear indication that this took place in the USA. Quite typical - leaving guns where kids can get to them, all the while not bothering with educating these same children about gun safety, and what they do to living things.

My Dad taught me gun safety ("treat all guns as if they are loaded, and never point at anything you don't want killed") at an early age, and when I was very young, I learned the lesson of what happens when you shoot living things, when we shot birds -- I learned to never point a gun at any living thing, unless I absolutely must - and if I do, make sure you kill with the first shot.

Nevertheless, it seems no one else I know ever bothered to teach their own children such basic rules.

The fact is this child of four actually wanted to kill because he was hurt by another this is very disturbing. and he needs to be watched very carefully.

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.

Only in the Land of the Free...

Originally Posted by blackgang

But he pobly be more comfortable with a .410, less recoil and weight.

My father gave me a .410 when I was a kid.

Originally Posted by spiff

Only in the Land of the Free...

Free of what?

Why, Get rid of those that use guns for illegal things.
I have a shit load of guns in a more or less collection, some spendy and some just old and family heirlooms. and only 1 has taken a life.
I have a Mod.94 Win. 25/35 saddle carbine that a Drunk Indian used to shoot himself with and my dad bought it from a used dealer for $5 in 1938, and my uncle shot himself when he was dying of cancer in early 50s and that Mod. 99 300 Savage was sold by my aunt so it is not in the family anymore.
So none of my guns were used to kill anyone, except maybe the 9mm 1943 P38 Walther from Germany army with a lot of German canned ammo all dated 1943, I am not sure of it's history before my dad picked it up from a German prisoner.

An extreme example of what lax gun laws can produce.

What's next a four year old bringing a gun to school?

Why a four year old should even know about guns or loading guns is beyond me.

Guns are made for shooting.

Originally Posted by spiff

Guns are made for shooting.

And I suppose that people are made for killing or "doing harm" to?

As for those that say they have had lots of guns & never had a problem, so what!!!!
Guns don't go off by themselves. They generally require a human to "pull the trigger". Since this is the case, get rid of "the trigger" (i.e. guns). On the other hand, one could choose to be rid of "trigger pulling humans" by killing them. But the strange thing is, they just seem to keep coming back...generation after generation. The good thing is that guns don't have sex & multiply, like humans do.

Thank fuck that Amstralia isn't a "gun happy" country. Shit, there are enough angry people there now...it could easily be as half as bad as the USA.

Originally Posted by phuketbound

What's next a four year old bringing a gun to school

Really doubt it as the gun would be longer than the kid and in US kids don't go to school til 5 even in Kindergarten.

Originally Posted by phuketbound

Why a four year old should even know about guns or loading guns is beyond me.

My daughter knew about guns at 4 and I would imagine she could have figured out how to load it, just because a kid is young, if they were raised to think for themselves and not like a Thai kid, they should be smart enough to do a lot of things.
She had an engine powered mini corvette that she drove around on the gravel roads at 4 and also an electric Barby jeep that she went around the neighborhood in when we still lived in Northern Calif in the country, not in the city.
But she was raised as a little person and not as a mindless baby.

^Mindless or not, any kid could find a gun if a parent is stupid enough to leave it in a reachable location. A four year old handling a gun is bloody foolish, and asking for an accident to happen, as it did in this situation.

Originally Posted by mikehunt

And I suppose that people are made for killing or "doing harm" to?

Eh, what?

Originally Posted by mikehunt

Guns don't go off by themselves. They generally require a human to "pull the trigger". Since this is the case, get rid of "the trigger" (i.e. guns).

Good thinking there, Sherlock.

Originally Posted by mikehunt

On the other hand, one could choose to be rid of "trigger pulling humans" by killing them.

Bit of a self-defeating scheme there, don't you agree, kid?