Child shoots self with gun thought to be a Wiimote

**Kugyince** · 03-10-2010, 05:44 PM

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LEBANON, Tenn. — A Middle Tennessee child who might have thought a loaded handgun was a video game controller has fatally shot herself.

WTVF-TV in Nashville quoted Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe, who said the 3-year-old girl picked up her stepfather's .380 caliber pistol and shot herself in the stomach Sunday night.

Ashe said the girl's mother was in the same room and the stepfather was asleep when it happened.

The mother told investigators her daughter could have thought the gun was a controller for a Nintendo Wii.

The stepfather told deputies he got out the gun because he heard a prowler, then left it on a living room end table.

The child died at a hospital. Her name wasn't immediately released.

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**nikegirl2012** · 03-10-2010, 07:05 PM

A good reason why not to own guns. Sure the father heard a prowler and thought he might just leave the gun out in case the prowler broke in and didn't have a gun to attack the family with. Seriously... at least put them somewhere out of sight or where kids can't get them. Or... knowing the gun is out... keep a better look out for your kids...

**Kugyince** · 03-10-2010, 07:33 PM

Indeed. How do you forget that there's a fully loaded, unlocked firearm on the end table with the safety off? Especially with a three year old about.

I'm tempted to claim it's a cover-up to something far more intentional.

**Demon-Mask** · 03-10-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tenser

I'm tempted to claim it's a cover-up to something far more intentional.

Considering the circumstances, it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was the case.

**Mareeps** · 03-10-2010, 07:51 PM

Theres only one video game gun that looks like a gun

**Kugyince** · 03-10-2010, 08:00 PM

**Mareeps** · 03-10-2010, 08:06 PM

I never saw that before, where was it sold?

**david man45** · 03-10-2010, 09:00 PM

It has to be a cover up. Unless the family suffered from generations of incest and had mental disabilities I dont see how they could've let that happen.

**DrunkN** · 03-10-2010, 09:04 PM

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the 3-year-old girl picked up her stepfather's .380 caliber pistol and shot herself in the stomach

I don't quite see it happening.

She also thought it was a video game controller? She play with it before?

**Neutral** · 03-10-2010, 11:34 PM

First of all, this fox news you're quotin' Tenser. I though you knew better.

Second, wouldn't she had tried to point it at the screen? I have never used a gun, but my first though is that the gun was to heavy for her.

Here's an other article with some more stuff which fox didn't say:

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Her mother, ****, 32, told them **** had played on the games consol for days at a time.

The most logical would be that she tried to point it at the screen, which was what I thought before I found this article. Then how did she shot her self in the stomach? Maybe, as I said before, the gun was to heavy for her.

Regarding the sound the step-father heard:

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He fetched his gun, which he usually kept unloaded in a cabinet and went to investigate. After failing to find anyone, he left the gun in the living room and went to bed.

He could have put it down in such a way, that when the toddler whent to pick it up, the barrel was pointed towards her and she tried to grab the handel which was further away from her. If you get my train of thoughts.

But yes, the whole story could also be a cover up.
Yeah, the article I quote does mentions their names but I censored it here. Is it Ok if I post the link anyway?

EDIT:
Here is a picture of the gun that shot her(top), and the WII-gun(bottom). It probably deflates the cover-up story.

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**Slime Slayer** · 03-11-2010, 12:02 AM

I'm tending towards the idea of something more sinister myself.
- guns are heavy, 3 year olds are weak
-emulating her parents, she wouldnt point the wii-mote at her own stomach, she'd point it at the t.v.
-guns are serious stuff, if you brought one out because you thought you heard a prowler, theres no way you'd just forget about it, unless you were highly intoxicated.

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I wouldnt be suprised either way.

**Kong** · 03-11-2010, 05:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Neutral

1. Toy guns should not look like this.
2. The dad sounds like a drunk idiot.
3. The kid doesn't sound too bright either.
4. Who was playing games for days at a time? The baby? How do you let your 3 year old play with the toy gun in that picture all day every day and then set the real gun in the picture next to it.

**Mareeps** · 03-11-2010, 06:59 AM

I thought the Wii gun looked like this

Where do that sell that type of accessory anyway?

**Kong** · 03-11-2010, 07:16 AM

@Brawlmaster. That's what I thought too.

**Tails** · 03-11-2010, 07:21 AM

My friend on MSN imed me about this yesterday when I got on. All I can say is I am sorry for the child, but the step father is an idiot, for lack of a more appropriate word.

**Dudebro** · 03-11-2010, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Kong

3. The kid doesn't sound too bright either.

Wasn't the kid 3 years old? No offense to kids but they're all kind of dumb at that age. Both parents should be in jail if they were aware that the gun was out. I'm sure they're complete morons and this didn't seem like a problem to them at the time. We're better off punishing them so they smarten up, I'm sure they'll have more kids.

**JKool** · 03-11-2010, 11:23 AM

They should've got a PS3.

**david man45** · 03-11-2010, 12:39 PM

A 3 year couldn't pull a trigger.

**jim5cents** · 03-11-2010, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ten

I'm tempted to claim it's a cover-up to something far more intentional.

i'm tempted to claim it's a cover-up to something far more ignorant. the guy is probably a hick, liked having his toy out...he was sleeping (i.e. passed out drunk) bad situation no matter how you look at it.

probably this guy's kid

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Originally Posted by davidman

A 3 year couldn't pull a trigger.

yes they can.

he seems to know where the trigger is.

**david man45** · 03-11-2010, 01:37 PM

I cant see the pictures and I really doubt a 3 year old girl could hold the gun backwards up to her stomache and pull the trigger.

**DrunkN** · 03-11-2010, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by yasly

They should've got a PS3.

That is horribly hilarious. I don't know whether to rank you up or down.

**nikegirl2012** · 03-11-2010, 04:02 PM

Well... if it was an accident... I get it, my sis, when she was 3 years old was pretty strong, and saw me playing PS3 and wanted to play too. She was better than me in Soul Calibur.... anyways... she might have gotten confused and picked up the real gun thinking it was the fake one (I thought fake guns had to have the orange thing at the end of the barrel to distinguish them from real guns) and tried to point it as the tv, obviously because of the weight she couldn't and it might have slipped and that's when she shot herself. Still very dumb parents...

**Kong** · 03-11-2010, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by david man45

I cant see the pictures and I really doubt a 3 year old girl could hold the gun backwards up to her stomache and pull the trigger.

Are you implying a 3 year old girl is weaker than a 3 year old boy?

**samejamesbond** · 03-11-2010, 04:04 PM

I have never seen a Wii gun like that before...

Where do they sell them?

**nikegirl2012** · 03-11-2010, 04:16 PM

no, I'm saying 3 year old's in general are strong enough to pick up guns, not strong enough to point directly at tv.