Turns out she wasn't 2 years old. She was just 1.

[Robb]

Update: One-Year-Old Shot by Six-Year-Old in Danville

Danville Police say the child who was shot Sunday afternoon was one-year-old, turning two in October. They say seven people were in the house in the 700 block of Glendale Avenue when the shooting happened.

Police say a six-year-old found a gun in the house and it accidentally went off, hitting the one-year-old girl in the back while she was playing in another room.

Police say charges are pending against the gun's owner.

Read More: http://www.wset.com/story/23042414/update-one-year-old-shot-by-six-year-old-in-danville

Just FYI, In Virginia, it's preemptively against the law for lawmakers to attempt to regulate "purchase, possession, transfer, ownership, carrying, storage or transporting of firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof."

Do you live in a state where the guns are so well protected? Has it made your children safer?

[theHandpuppet]

1. Ah yes, the good old Commonwealth of Virginia

If you think those laws are mind-boggling, you ought to review the ones they have against GLBT citizens and the current war on women being conducted by Cuccinelli and McDonnell. The state has been hijacked by teabaggers and religious wingnuts. BTW, an awful lot of Virginia guns end up on the D.C. streets due to straw purchases.

Virginia is for lovers? Only lovers of guns -- lovers of women and LGBTs, not so much. My partner and I lived in Virginia for a few years and within the first week of our taking up residence, the KKK left a love note on our doorstep in the middle of the night.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. They need to file charges every time someone is injured or killed by a firearm that is

not safely stored.

I hope the little girl survives and that the six-year-old is receiving counseling so he is not traumatized by what has happened. It's certainly not his fault.

[kestrel91316]

5. That won't happen. It's also illegal to regulate possession or storage of guns there.

[Bully Taw]

11. i agree!

I also think that people caught with an unregistered gun should have a 5 year mandatory sentence. No questions asked, no explanations accepted, 5 years for any unregistered gun possession. Committing a crime with an unregistered gun should carry an automatic 20 years, in addition to any other sentence for the crime itself.

curbing possession of unregistered guns should be the top priority of gun control.

[Jenoch]

14. In what state do you live?

There are just a few states with gun registration.

[Bully Taw]

16. Massachusetts

which I just found out does not have registration. I am not a gun owner, and probably never will be a gun owner. I guess I would require that all guns be registered first.

I think what I was trying to say was the possession of guns without a licence.

[Jenoch]

17. A national gun registration law is currently illegal.

I don't know about FOID, or a license to possess a firearm.

[Bully Taw]

18. i think all states require some form of permit

but I don't know for sure. As I said, I won't own a gun. and those that have illegal guns have to be handled first.

[Jenoch]

19. There are gun laws about the purchase of firearms.

For instance, in Minnesota for someone to buy a handgun or 'assault weapon' and permit to purchase is required. This permit includes a more thorough background check than the federal NICS. There is no permit required to purchase a long gun.

[Bully Taw]

20. Well...

sounds like there is a lot of work to do on that front, then.

I support the second amendment, but not without restrictions and strict laws.

[Jenoch]

21. "...a lot of work to do..." on WHAT front?

[Bully Taw]

22. gun control n/t

[ManiacJoe]

29. Actually very few states require any permit for purchases.

i think all states require some form of permit but I don't know for sure. As I said, I won't own a gun. and those that have illegal guns have to be handled first.

Actually very few states require any permit for purchases.

[onehandle]

3. Cletus sez: 'Ah am the NRA!'

[theHandpuppet]

4. You forgot the rebel flag

In Virginia, you've got to have at LEAST one of those. Plus a bumper sticker for your pickup that says, "Jeff Davis was right!" or "Happiness is a warm machine gun". Those are right popular, too.

[yesphan]

6. I was there a few years ago and saw a bumper sticker that read :

My Boss was an Austrian Painter.

Ohh, how clever.

[theHandpuppet]

7. Another goodie from Virginia

A bumper sticker with a portrait bust of MLK posing in front of the Capital Building with the text, "I have a dream". I thought that was really cool until I got closer and saw that in the picture there was also a Rebel flag flying over the Capital. Good ol Virginia. How I don't miss it.

[lark]

8. I live in FL.

Obviously our gun laws have directly led to murder being exonerated.

When will America start caring as much for their or our children as they do for their guns?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

9. If this occurred in Virginia, and if it is against the law to regulate guns in any manner, why are

charges pending against the gun's owner?

I'm not familiar with any Virginia law which preemptively gives immunity for negligent gun storage. Does such a law really exist? Why doesn't someone tell the police that?

[pintobean]

12. That's the first thing I thought.

Maybe the law existed before the law was passed to make it unlawful to change the law.

[yellowcanine]

23. Negligence is negligence. You don't need a specific law.

Leaving a loaded gun where a six year old can get it is negligence and child endangerment.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

24. Only child endangerment? Research with case law might indicate that a death caused by leaving a

loaded gun where a six year old could get it might uncover a manslaughter case or two.

IMO, no one should infer or suggest that criminal laws do not apply to a homicide because somehow, if true, Virginia adopted a state constitutional amendment or statute prohibiting the Virginia legislature from passing specific legislation regarding the storage of firearms.

[yellowcanine]

25. The child survived in this case so that would be the appropriate charge......

If a death occurs, then yes, manslaughter might be appropriate also.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

26. I understand that the kid survived in this case.

[Mira]

10. Robb... I can't imagine

how many folks here have you on ignore.
Every time I even make a little noise against the proliferation of illegally owned and or unregulated guns I get new ignores. It's a given, and makes me shake my head with pain in my heart.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

13. Every time? Have you ever made a little noise against the proliferation of gun-carrying gang members

in Chicago caught with guns who can be out in less than two years and resume their gun carrying activities?

If you have made a little noise on that issue, please excuse me but I've never heard it.

In fact, there seems to be a general absence of any noise from gun controllers to gun-using criminals separated from guns and kept in prison for longer periods of time.

There also seems to be a general absence of any noise from gun controllers for economic reform as one method for reducing unnecessary gun violence. Why is that?

[Jenoch]

15. In Minnesota it is the law

that firearms stored in a home must be locked and unloaded with the ammunition stored separately. The other alternative is for the firearm to be disabled and the parts stored separately.

[darkangel218]

27. Robb, i have a question for you.

If it was possible, would you ban all guns from civilian use? I'm just curious.

[Robb]

28. UPDATE: She's stable, and reportedly awake. And the gun was unharmed.

http://www.wset.com/story/23051185/one-year-old-danville-girl-stable-following-shooting

The gun owner could be facing a class 3 misdemeanor charge.

So the gun owner is in no danger of having his ability to own a gun come into question.