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No Charges: Millie Drew, 6, died after accidently being shot by brother

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A little girl who died days after accidentally being shot by her little brothers giving life to others.

Millie Drew, 6, died on April 10, according to WCNC, two days after the shooting.

Police said her mother put Millie and her 4-year-old brother into the car, but it wouldn’t start. The mother got out to see what was wrong, and heard a gunshot. Authorities said the boy somehow got a hold of the gun and accidentally shot Drew in the head.

No charges are being filed.
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6-year-old accidentally shot by brother dies, gives life to others by donating organs

DALLAS, Georgia — A little girl who died days after accidentally being shot by her little brothers giving life to others. Millie Drew, 6, died on April 10, according to WCNC, two days after t…
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The mother should never be allowed to own a gun again.
 
Why would you leave a loaded, unlocked gun in the car with your small children EVER, for even a moment?!?

If you feel the need to carry, for personal protection, carry it on your body, ffs. There are many options for on the body carrying. When you have it in your purse, there is always the chance someone can get at it, including children.
 
Alf said:
Trigger-locking a loaded firearm is a bad idea. it increases the risk of an inadvertent discharge exponentially. Then too, if one needs a firearm one tends to need it right now, not right now plus unlocking time.

--Al
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True, but when you have children, you also need to factor that in to the equation. Or just carry it on your damn body, then you don't need a trigger lock and your kids can't grab it.

When I took the concealed carry for women class (taught by several women at my local gun range, all of whom carried), they showed many different carry options, but the first thing they said was not to carry in your purse, not even the special purses with a concealed slot for a gun. Far too dangerous.

I took the concealed carry class because I had been threatened with death by a stranger (at the opera, of all places) and I was considering carrying. I was thinking not all the time, but whenever I went somewhere with a higher danger level. The women teaching the class all carried all the time, during all waking hours. Even at church on Sunday dressed in a nice Sunday dress. I asked them how many of them had even had occasion to draw their weapon. Zero. I asked how many of them had ever been in a situation where they were actually threatened with harm (before or after they started carrying). Zero. Same with the rest of the attendees at the class. So, I was the only one who had been in actual danger (the opera incident plus a couple others previously, including witnessing a violent shooting). Ironically, I decided I didn't really need to concealed carry after all, at least so far. Life is strange, sometimes.
 
Brillig said:
Or just carry it on your damn body, then you don't need a trigger lock and your kids can't grab it.
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Bingo.

Your instructors' other remarks are consistent with my training as well. If you have the arm on you then you have it, while if it is not then a loss of its carriage system results in the loss of the weapon as well.

I started carrying after somebody was stabbed in one of the common areas at the apartment complex I used to live at. I carried daily until I moved away. I too never had to draw it, but that 2-1/2 pounds dragging at my belt was a constant reminder that I had the means readily at hand to destroy another person should it come to that. I sat down and had a long heart-to-heart talk with myself, and we determined that only if my life were in danger from somebody else's unjustified use or threatened use of deadly force would I draw.

The night the shadows of the trees near the ATM were tossing around in the wind, except for one patch that was oddly still, was a night I didn't stop, driving on to a location that didn't have shadows that didn't move like the rest did. And the afternoon some jackass tried to pick a fight with me over a parking spot I didn't even flip him off; I just drove on.

If anybody wants a woman's perspective on firearms, The Cornered Cat is good. It covers a lot of sound information for men who are trying to decide if they want to carry as well.

--Al
 
Alf said:
Trigger-locking a loaded firearm is a bad idea. it increases the risk of an inadvertent discharge exponentially. Then too, if one needs a firearm one tends to need it right now, not right now plus unlocking time.

--Al
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She had tiny ones Al.. at least have a gun with nothing in the chamber and something they couldn’t pull the slide on at minimum
 
Their GoFundMe makes them sound really religious. Maybe the authorities were like, “Aw, these good white Christian folks have been punished enough. Let’s not punish the mom even more.” I hate to say it, but I do wonder if we’d be looking at a different outcome for the mom if she were black.
 
Anosmia said:
Their GoFundMe makes them sound really religious. Maybe the authorities were like, “Aw, these good white Christian folks have been punished enough. Let’s not punish the mom even more.” I hate to say it, but I do wonder if we’d be looking at a different outcome for the mom if she were black.
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That was my thought as well.
 
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