Angry Ohio boy, 4, shoots baby sitter

[iJack]

JACKSON, Ohio – Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter.
Eighteen-year-old Nathan Beavers was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.
Witnesses told police the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot. Beavers was watching the child at a mobile home in Jackson with several other teenagers and several other children.
Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen says authorities are investigating. The child has not been charged.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_us/young_shooter

[Techno Monster]

Wow.
What the hell are parents teaching kids these days?!?!

[iJack]

I blame video games.

[Gumleaf]

could you imagine a 4 year old in court charged with attempted murder??? weirdness!!!

[bagman]

hold on people the weapon was a shotgun that pulls bottum part to be reloded.that takes alot of power. a 4 year old loded that? my 6 year old bro cant load a nerf gun.

[liquid ice]

dude dont blame video games whats up with u dude its totaly something eles maybe that the parents gave im a baby sitter maybe.... thought of that one well.. anyway shape or form the littel boy shot the person and thats it [but thekid probly has anger issues maybe someone just died and maybe he has a.d.d./a.d.h.d. something like that idk but it happens/ but they need to stop think about violene in 4 yr olds and need to talk about americas needs like thires so many homeless people out thire and were careing for people over in indonesia when we have bigger probelms in our cuntry and the president hides it from the eyes of the nation we live in its right in frot of our own eyes but they teach us not to see it...i rest my case ty for readin.. umm if u have something eles u need to say about y comment send me a priate msg plz plz i want to hear from evreyone..

[Underground_Network]

I blame hamsters.

0.o

Meh, who knows, I blame the father for having the gun out where his FOUR YEAR OLD son could reach it, and for obviously intentionally letting his son know WHERE the gun is. I also blame him for probably exposing his son to guns (i.e., showing his son how to use the gun, which is the most logical explanation as to why he was able to use the shotgun) and teaching him how to use guns, but not explaining to him the consequences of using a gun on another person... Plus teaching a four year old how to use a gun is just freaking stupid... And you have to realize all of this is coming from a gun fanatic (*cough* me *cough*).,,

[alsoknownas]

4 year old and shotgun, how could he handle the rcoil he must have gon flying!

also the gun must have been left loaded if it was a pump action or was shown how to load it if it was the break barell type.

[Bobby]

That's why you lock your guns. Or atleast hide them better. Completely and 100% the parents fault.

[ShatteredWings]

lock
them
up.

Serously....
You can have 'em in your house, i dn't care, but don't let a KID reach them

[Perseus]

How could a 4 year old not get hurt from the recoil? I think theres more to the story...

[Requin]

Lock the guns up...or here's a radical idea....
Get rid off them??

Or is that concept to hard for the government?
Such a sad but also, which is sad, common.

[Perseus]

If people were to get rid of guns tell me how you could protect yourself from a robber lunging towards you with a knife and you have no protection and no phone near you.

[Requin]

Hit him with a hammer!!!! This isn't a gun argument.
I'm just saying that....

[Perseus]

what if you have nothing is what im implying

[Underground_Network]

Guns, like anything else that can inflict harm, aren't unnecessary, people just need to be taught that they're not play things and that they're not things you use to harm other people when you get angry. Young kids who are exposed to guns NEED to be taught gun safety, and anyone under like sixteen/seventeen should not have access to a gun in their house. In most cases they're for protection, in some other cases they're for leisure/sport (hunting), and in rarer cases they're for killing other people (war). You have to also keep in mind that if you eliminate guns, war would be a lot gorier and much, much worse than it currently is.

But yeah, lets not get too off topic...

[Perseus]

Things like this would happen regardless with or without guns, things would just be more brutal...

[Hyper]

No seriously how could a 4 year old even fire a shotgun?..

[ShatteredWings]

That too is a good question

[Underground_Network]

I think he must be Superman's nephew.

[Sugaree]

His parents are to blame. They obviously never thought that a FOUR YEAR OLD would get a shotgun and shoot the baby sitter. I blame the parents 100%.

They should have known better.

[Camazotz]

I blame hamsters.

Me too!

[iJack]

what if you have nothing is what im implying
I break his bone, rip it out and shove it up his ass.
I think he must be Superman's nephew.
You are Superman's nephew.

[Bobby]

Please stay on topic. This isn't a debate, nor a useless spam center.

[Perseus]

Exactly someone is probally making him take the blame

[Halibut]

well a while ago a 4 year old stabbed his older brother and killed him..crazy

[Perseus]

When 4 Year Olds Attack lol, such bad parrenting these days.

[iJack]

Exactly someone is probally making him take the blame
What?

[Θάνατος]

Exactly someone is probably making him take the blame

What?

I agree with Jack here.

How do you make a 4 years take the blame. The only way for this to happen is to totally traumatize the boy. Some kids are just curious and play with guns and if they have been around guns it is possible that they may know how to use it.

I don't think a four year could load teh gun though so that means some irresponsible person left the gun loaded. That is the real tragedy here. The 4 year old may be young enough not to remember this and lets hope so.

[Church]

Only morons blame violence on video games, also I doubt a 4 yr old could shoot a shotty

[Cindex]

That stuff about video games is bull. Even if a four year old had access and played those games, how would he know how to fire the shotgun? Seriously, they don't have the mental capacity. How did he even pick the thing up? They're freaking heavy dude! Aiming had to be horrible, shown obviously because close-range shotgun wounds are never minor. He pretty much missed.

Stupid parents. Why did they put it so easily accessible, and loaded?!

Edit:
Now that I think about it, a bunch of teenagers could have tricked him. No idea how, but people are crafty!

[Jumpit007]

I'm very frazzled about how a 4yr old could shoot a shotgun? I guess the only explination is that the dad taught him, or was very open about loading/using the gun around the child.

I do think that a bunch of teenagers were prob not the best choice to babysit kids in a trailer park.....just sayin. Kinda asking for something bad to happen.