10-year-old boy accidentally shot by babysitter taking selfies with gun: police

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A 10-year-old boy was accidentally shot by his babysitter when she was taking selfies while holding a gun, a Texas sheriff's office said.

The incident occurred at an apartment in Houston on Tuesday evening when the 19-year-old relative who was watching the child found a gun, according to tweets from the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Thinking the weapon was unloaded, the girl started posing and taking pictures with it, authorities said. That's when the gun went off, hitting the boy in the stomach.His condition has improved and he is stable after undergoing surgery, Senior Deputy Thomas Gilliland told CNN. The investigation is ongoing and no charges have yet been made, Gilliland said.

Accidental and preventable gun deaths make up 1% of overall gun-related deaths in the US, according to the National Safety Council. Gilliland reminded the public to always remember that firearms are not to be played around with. "Firearms are dangerous weapons so take precautions to make sure things like that don't happen," Gilliland said. "Taking selfies was not the best thing to be doing."

 

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Of course it’s in America.

America. That is all. Every house needs a loaded gun

Education, not legislation.

Wow.. stupid people

Where did the gun come from? Is it an illegal gun that came across the border and is this going to be a story where the parents are shady, like the 7 yr old who was shot by somebody who intended to hit someone in the same house as the 7 yr old?

Rule 1 of gun safety: always assume a gun is loaded until you prove it safe to handle. This story just underlined the importance of teaching kids about gun safety

And now some Canadian news from New York Post:

Guns don't kill... stupid people with guns do!!!

Dear Canadians, it’s yet another terribly slow news day in Canada. We at CTV news Canada decided to purchase this tweet from USA, Eh ? And retweet it to you and our Canadian audience, eh ? There’s nothing happening in Canada. Except hockey & Tim Hortons.

More CNN TRASH ..

The babysitter was taking selfies, with a gun......? What kind of sick & twisted new technology is that now

So lock up your weapons for safety but then you can't defend against intruders. Or accidents like this happen. It's a lose-lose scenario.

‘Merica

Use a camera instead

So sad...why was there a loaded gun in the house?.....Someone was NOT a responsible adult...😢😢🙏❤️🇨🇦

I support people being allowed to have guns. But not if they’re so irresponsible that something like this could happen. Seriously, how’d the babysitter access the gun?

Guns are SO awesome...sarcasm intended

Going hard against the guns once again I see, 275 people shot in Chicago alone vial ILLEGAL gun violence - ILLEGAL GUNS

The writer of the article seems to think the babysitter is negligent. Sure but what about the idiot that leaves a loaded gun lying around his house WITH a TEN YEAR OLD BOY. He is the one who should be charged.

Stupid people and guns seem to have an affinity for one another.

Every conservative that read the headline was praying it happened in Toronto and they were black. There would be 50 thousand comments from them. But it's Florida....carry on...That's con country

It would be great if you could add the fact that this was in Texas in the headline.

Idiot!

Guns don’t kill pe...

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