A two-year-old South Carolina boy found a gun in the car he was riding in and shot his grandmother in the back:
According to police, officers were called to the 1100-block of Stanley Drive Sunday afternoon around 1:24 p.m.
Officers met with a woman who says she picked up her great-nephew and was driving him around, with his grandmother in the passenger seat.
While she was driving, the young boy found a .357 revolver in the pouch on the back of the passenger seat. He then accidentally shot his 40-year-old grandmother through the passenger seat.
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“It was in a pouch behind the passenger seat, somehow the child reached in and got ahold of it, that’s something our detectives are working on today,” Bollinger said.
Who would leave a loaded revolver in the pouch behind the passenger seat? With a little boy back there?
I don’t know, but I will note that the 40-year-old grandmother was in the passenger seat of an orange Camaro — and the two-year-old, in the moving car, apparently was not in a car seat, or belted-in, for that matter. Hmm…
Naturally Boing Boing illustrates the problem of toddlers shooting people with photos of middle-class white children receiving responsible gun-safety training, like this girl holding an airsoft pistol, with her finger off the trigger:
