Posted March 22, 2017 9:02 am by Comments

By Bob Owens

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Some people simply aren’t intelligent enough to own firearms. Sadly, it always seems that someone else has to pay for their stupidity, and this time, it was a nine-year-old boy innocently playing video games who was executed by a two-year-old thanks to the idiocy and careless gun-handling of their mother.

A 9-year-old boy shot in the head by his 2-year-old brother with their mother’s handgun died Tuesday, and their mother told police she had previously let the toddler handle the gun when it wasn’t loaded, authorities said.

Landen Lavarnia was declared dead at a hospital, Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Vince Lewis said. Police had initially said the boy died on Monday when he was shot. But they corrected themselves and said he remained on life support earlier Tuesday before dying in the late afternoon.

The mother, Wendy Lavarnia, 28, told police she had put her loaded gun on a bed within reach of her 2-year-old and 4-year-old sons while she turned to get a holster, according to court records. That’s when the 2-year-old grabbed the gun and shot her 9-year-old son, who was playing video games a few feet away, police said.

Wendy Lavarnia told police she had allowed “the 2-year-old to practice …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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