6-year-old brings gun to Texas school, 3 hurt

[cali]

(AP) – 7 minutes ago

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say three students have been injured after a 6-year-old brought a loaded gun to his Houston elementary school that accidentally discharged when it fell out of the child's pocket.

Houston Independent School District Public Information Officer Norm Uhl tells Fox News that none of the injuries appears to be life-threatening.

Officials say Ross Elementary school was placed on lockdown Tuesday.

Images taken from Houston television KPRC's news helicopter show three children being wheeled to ambulances on stretchers.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iontPRVB-77J6w7AIZXv4h17eJEA?docId=c957c3b6257b4ac5814fa46fa098a25e

[sakabatou]

1. The parents are gonna be in trouble for this.

[LeftinOH]

2. Some adult out there needs to answer for this. n/t

[existentialist]

3. but surely

first graders have Second Amendment Rights too . . .

(Now how does that sarcasm icon work???)

[smirkymonkey]

4. Surely nothing would have happened if he hadn't been at the

local saloon knocking back the brewskis beforehand.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Or if all the other students were armed.

[WatsonT]

8. Minors don't have the same rights as adults

like say voting.

[TheWraith]

9. And if anyone had ever argued that, maybe you'd have a non-silly point.

Otherwise, you're just being absurd, like the wingnuts who claim that Democrats think no one should ever have to work, and that we want to give free luxury cars to crack dealers.

How about you actually try to argue a point?

[existentialist]

26. surely you're not disputing my

First Amendment Right to be silly????

[PavePusher]

24. Which might be appropriate...

had anyone, anywhere, made that claim in any seriousness.

[lawodevolution]

29. "first graders have Second Amendment Rights too . . ."

are you an idiot? Try making adult level comments.

[maxsolomon]

5. pocket knives don't accidentally discharge when they fall out of pockets.

i suppose that's a distinction.

[Turbineguy]

7. I think they are over reacting.

What if somebody had tried to steal his lunch money?

[xchrom]

10. recommend

[rl6214]

11. Unrec for stupid snarky comments

[ileus]

12. No modern firearm should discharge when dropped.

[petronius]

14. Perhaps he tried to catch it? In any event, it seems highly likely that there was negligence

in the home, and if so there should be repercussions...

Glad the injuries were slight.

[maxsolomon]

20. how did Plaxico Buress shoot himself in the leg?

was it an antique?

[RamboLiberal]

22. Dumbass Plaxico tried to grab the gun as it was slipping down his pants

And got his finger on the trigger.

That's why it's very unwise to carry a gun in your pants without a holster.

As he was walking upstairs, Burress said he missed a step and the gun began to slide down his pantleg. Burress said he reached to stop it from hitting the ground when he accidentally pulled the trigger through his pants.

"My finger hit, like, right on the trigger," he said. "What are the odds on that happening?"

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4420263

[maxsolomon]

28. And the safety was off?

The odds are pretty good BECAUSE A TRIGGER IS SHAPED FOR FINGERS!

[RSillsbee]

32. Plaxico was carrying a GLOCK which has no manual safety NT

[slackmaster]

36. By being a fucking idiot and not using a holster

Did I mention that Plaxico Buress is a fucking idiot?

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Thank goodness for the unrec feature.

Some here couldn't function without it.

[ManiacJoe]

15. Since you brought it up,

why would someone recommend a post like the OP, a drive-by current-event post with no commentary?

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Do we necessarily need a commentary?

The story is certainly newsworthy and ready for discussion as posted.

[ManiacJoe]

17. In what sense?

The lack of details in the report makes it border on useless for news.

What is there to discuss about it? The child illegally brought a gun to school. Except for the straw men, no one is going to claim this is a good thing and ought be be legal. What is it that you want to discuss about this article?
:shrug:

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. It's news,

it's tragic, and it's something people here may want to discuss. That doesn't mean it should automatically get a rec, but why an unrec?

If a story doesn't especially interest you, you just move on to the next.

[petronius]

31. I have always understood that the point of a 'Rec' was for a story of particular importance

and interest to get bumped to the Greatest page for wider visibility. Don't really see how this qualifies that way.

Obviously, however, people use (Un)Rec for a wide range of reasons, and complaining about it from either end is one of the more laughable DU behaviors, IMO. Personally, I've never bothered with it...

[rl6214]

18. If some would actually bring up some point of discussion

instead of just snarky comments then the discussion could go forward. Just seems like the ones that oppose guns don't want to do that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. So you unrec because of the posters, not the post itself?

:shrug:

[rl6214]

25. I unrecced because of the lack of discussion in the OP

I think the OP should make an initial commentary on why they are posting AND because of the stupid snarky comments with no contribution to the OP. We can all be sarcastic at times but if all you are doing is taking a swipe at gun owners, like it looks like the OP was trying to do then I will unrec. The OP has not made another post in this thread. Looks like a drive-by.

[Logical]

23. Hopefully the parents will be charged with a crime and sued for damages! n-t

[ZombieHorde]

27. If only the other six-year-old students were armed too, then they could have defended themselves.

Just kidding, I know this is a straw man, but I couldn't resist.

[lawodevolution]

30. The anti gun activists are very thrilled

and gun control groups are probably already jumping on this.

[petronius]

33. Pro-rights posters sometimes celebrate when a bad guy is injured with a gun,

and anti-rights folks seem happiest when an innocent person is hurt. I don't particularly approve of the former, but the latter is just perverse...

[lawodevolution]

35. They are very excited, they have 3 threads going a the same time

[Remmah2]

34. A minimum of 4 threads on the same topic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=404063&mesg_id=404332