4-Year-Old Boy Injured After Suffering Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound In West Philadelphia: Police

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A 4-year-old boy was injured on Saturday night after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his left hand inside a car in West Philadelphia, police say.

PHILADELPHIA — The incident happened on the 4200 block of Fairmount Avenue

just after 6 p.m.A weapon was recovered, no arrests were made, according to police.

 

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That's what happens when you don't have a father around to teach you proper grip.

Now if a good guy with a gun had been there he could have shot the gun out of the toddlers hands. Again another reason everyone absolutely needs a gun.

Absolutely horrific

Stricter parent laws

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