Grandfather Shoots His Two-year Old Grandaughter
Published by Spencer Hawken on July 12, 2011 in Europe-
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In a drunken moment of "messing about" a 69 year old man shot his grand-child.
In the UK its incredibly difficult to get to hold a firearm, a recent story from the US gives a very clear reason as to why.
On Sunday evening the police and paramedics were called to the Tri County View apartment complex in Westchester, Ohio, where they found a two-year old girl who had been shot in the stomach by her 69-year-old grandfather Albert Ibold.
While the police had declared the shooting as “accidental” they have charged the pensioner with child endangerment, and handling a gun while intoxicated. They say that the grandfather was “messing about” with his granddaughter, when he fired one of his guns, and hit her; Albert claimed he had absolutely no idea that the .32 calibre Derringer was loaded.
Alison Ibold the victim, was shot in the hipbone through the side of the stomach, and was due to be released from hospital last evening, while she was unbelievably not seriously hurt by the incident, she will require supervision a hospital spokesperson stated.
An incident that raises more questions than it answers in this authors opinion, firstly how man weapons does the grandfather own? Exactly what sort of messing round does a two-year old understand when it comes to firearms, and finally when a child is that age, they must always be supervised!
Albert Ibold is due at a hearing on the 19th of July, and is currently out on an $11,000 bond.
Disgusting
It is hard to get a legal firearm in UK, but BlandWh, people are shot in UK. Why on earth would anyone “play about” with a loaded gun? That is so crazy!
some people have weird minds
We have guns in the US because we are the wild west. we have been raised in this culture and it is a part of our DNA. Because of this, if we were to just enact UK level gun laws, the underground markets would flourish. We need only to look back at Prohibition. The problem with guns in America isn’t that they exist, it’s education. People who own them, think they know everything about them. People who don’t own them fear them. People who play with them, while drinking, while a child is in the room, probably never made it out of elementary school. The latter group of people should probably not own guns. Restricting this group like this might actually give them some motivation to, i don’t know, read a book or two?