Child Finds Gun In Car, Kills Driver Speeding Down Highway

By Bob Owens

How many times are we going to have to see this exact same tragedy play out before people learn that responsible gun ownership involves denying children access to guns?

The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office says witness accounts indicate a child in the back seat of a vehicle in the southbound lanes of Highway 175 on Tuesday morning, April 26th, got hold of a gun and discharged the firearm. That sent a single bullet into the driver’s back.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene around 10:30 a.m. They found a 26-year-old woman had suffered a gunshot wound. She was did not have a pulse and was not breathing.

Deputies began CPR until the Milwaukee Fire Department arrived on the scene. However, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two small children were in the back of the car. One of these children obtained a gun in the back seat and fired it, killing what we have to presume at this time to be the woman’s mother.

If this sounds eerily familiar, it is because a Florida woman named Jamie Gilt survived a nearly identical incident last month, when she was shot by her child after she left a handgun in the back …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms