Sunday, March 24, 2013

12-Year-old Shot and Killed by his Teenage Brother - No Charges


The Examiner reports

A teenager accidentally shot and killed his 12-year-old brother in their Orlando home on Friday. The 16-year-old boy is the second minor this week to get a hold of a gun ending in a shooting of a child in the Orange County area, according to the Orlando Sentinel on Saturday March 23, 2013.

The 12-year-old boy and his older brother were at home in the 9900 block of Portofino Drive when the older boy got a hold of a gun that went off, killing his younger sibling. The boy was pronounced dead within a few hours of being rushed to the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

The older brother is not expected to face any charges as police have deemed this an accident. At the time of the shooting the parents were not home. The family is fully cooperating, but at the same time they are asking for their privacy to mourn the loss of their son.

The name of the 16-year-old boy or the shooting victims in both cases have not been released. In the case of the older brother shooting the younger brother, police are expected to meet with the State Attorney's Office to determine whether there was any negligence.
You see how that works. It was just an accident, no reason to hold anyone accountable.  Accidents happen, right?

And if experience has shown us anything, there will be no accountability for the grossly negligent parents either. In Florida there is no such thing as a Safe Storage law because a man's home is his castle and no government has the right to tell him how he has to store his personal property.

The results are something all gun-rights advocates can be proud of.  And whether they admit it or not, they own a piece of the responsibility for this too.

What's your opinion?  Please leave a comment.

2 comments:

  1. "Accidents happen, right?"

    Yes. Fatal accidents happen in all sorts of things. You try to minimize them, but you don't ban traveling in cars with kids, taking kids to pools, etc. etc. etc.

    Your safe storage ideas are overreach that we've dealt with before. I'm not going to waste my breath telling you what a ridiculous nanny and meddler you are.

    Same goes for your asinine ideas regarding distributed responsibility.

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  2. "a man's home is his castle and no government has the right to tell him how he has to store his personal property."

    Glad we agree. So you'll shut up about this now?

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