3 year old boy shot his father and pregnant mother of 8 months inside a hotel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police say the boy took the gun from his mom's purse and fired one bullet hitting his dad in the lower backside. The bullet exited through the dad's hip and hit the mom in the right shoulder. The dad was treated and released from the hospital while the mom is currently in stable condition. The unborn child's condition is unknown.
This relates to APUSH because in the constitution, specifically the bill of rights, we're given the right to bear arms, right? The mom is enjoying that right and there's nothing wrong with that. Because she's also pregnant, I'm assuming she wants to feel extra safe. I don't know if the right to bear arms also applies to children, though. However, he didn't know that because he's still a baby. I don't know why a woman would carry around a handgun seeing that she has little children constantly nearby, but I just hope everyone is okay and that a lesson was learned.
I would be concerned though as to how the child managed to get the handgun and shoot it, as the safety should have hopefully been on and hampered the child from firing the weapon, which in itself is a very concerning matter.
ReplyDelete- Hannah Kalan 6th Period
That's scary...how did the kid even get the gun?
ReplyDelete-Kennedi Mayes
What the previous people said^ I agree that the mother would want to feel extra safe. But how was the young one able to get ahold of that gun? Also, if guns were around and even the slightest possibility of the child getting ahold of it was present, then why was the safety not on, or why did he know how to basically use it?
ReplyDeleteUgh. This is awful! How did the kid get the gun in the first place......also, the gun should have had safety on. This could have completely been prevented but i'm glad its not as bad as it could have been.
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