Toddler Shoots Infant In The Head, And We All Know Who Is To Blame

By Bob Owens

Once again, children are paying for an adult’s grossly negligent storage of a firearm.

A 2-year-old shot a 1-year-old sibling inside a parked car in north Baton Rouge on Tuesday night, leaving the infant in serious condition at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge Police reported.

The shooting was called in to EMS at 7:23 p.m. and occurred at a strip mall near the corner of North Foster Drive and Greenwell Springs Road, said Sgt. L’Jean McKneely, a spokesman for the Police Department.

McKneely said the handgun was inside the car and there were two adults around but he’s not sure how the 2-year-old got a hold of the gun. He said the family drove the child who was shot in the face to the hospital rather than wait on EMS.

Let me make this very simple: if a firearm is not in your immediate possession, it should be locked up so that it cannot be accessed by unauthorized users. “Immediate possession” of a firearm means in your hands or holstered/slung your body. It does not mean stuffed in a bag or purse, in the console or seat pocket of a vehicle, in a drawer, on a closet shelf, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms