Discussion: 2-Year-Old Girl Shot In Face After Gun Goes Off Inside Mom's Purse

chiefkurtz · April 13, 2016, 5:13pm

Not just in the hospital; safety off and a round chambered.

beattycat · April 13, 2016, 5:15pm

She brought the gun to the hospital because she thought she could shoot the Grim Reaper.

frankly_my_dear · April 13, 2016, 5:16pm

While this is both sad and silly at the same time, it’s fairly small potatoes as gun violence goes – no fatalities, a vending machine slightly inconvenienced, and a palpable lack of common sense that one tends to associate with Mississippi in any case.

The real headline grabber in gun violence happened over the weekend so TPM couldn’t cover it.

This is a full-sized tragedy on so many levels.

thepsyker · April 13, 2016, 5:16pm

Because without her magic protective talisman all sorts of bad things might happen. I mean she has a child she needs to protect! What sort of monster are you that you would question her right to have her magic protective talisman to keep her child safe? /s

steviedee111 · April 13, 2016, 5:17pm

Either that or she was hoping a Muslim would ask her what time it was, triggering a stand your ground fusillade of bullets.

jcblues · April 13, 2016, 5:18pm

that’s she’s German and its a deuling scar…

jcblues · April 13, 2016, 5:19pm

old cowboy wisdom… carry the hammer on an empty chamber…

frankly_my_dear · April 13, 2016, 5:20pm

She took the gun to the hospital to protect herself from Obamacare. Haven’t you heard? It’s destroying the country.

538liberal · April 13, 2016, 5:22pm

Or, the purse manufacturer, vending machine company or that hospital’s anti-American gun-free zone that forced this patriot to conceal her gun in the first place. If she’d been open-carrying in a proper holster it wouldn’t have been necessary for her to fire a warning shot at the greedy toddler planning to take her Clark Bar.

callmeeric · April 13, 2016, 5:23pm

Because if you’re going to shoot a two-year-old in the face it’s good to have medical facilities handy.

ncsteve · April 13, 2016, 5:25pm

Bah! When the Bad Guys With Guns appear, do you really think you want to take the time to chamber a round? What if you forget and just click on an empty chamber? That could be the second before the Bad Guys do bad things. So that’s why all guns should have a full ~~clip~~ magazine and one under the hammer and the safety off at all times. Because you can’t be too safe in this dangerous, frightening, terrifying scary world.

538liberal · April 13, 2016, 5:25pm

Shot multiple times–in the back.

kwoodgr · April 13, 2016, 5:26pm

Another reason why the second amendment doesn’t protect anyone but should be repealed.

callmeeric · April 13, 2016, 5:28pm

This article fails to mention if an extra bag of Doritos fell from the vending machine.

paulw · April 13, 2016, 5:29pm

The child will be placed in a heavily-armed foster home for safety.

tena · April 13, 2016, 5:33pm

As overly protective and easily freaked out as so many American parents are, why the hell they don’t get this about guns is totally beyond me. They put helmets on their kids to ride bikes, to roller skate -American parents would have 50 strokes in 10 minutes if they could see the kids in Europe on their bikes, no helmets, swerving in and out of traffic. Some of them are almost hysterical about who is using the stall next to their kid in public bathroom.

But deadly weapons? No problem.

I do not understand.

omahhum · April 13, 2016, 5:34pm

And the vending machine manufacturer will get prison time for conspiracy to commit violence using their vending machines.

538liberal · April 13, 2016, 5:34pm

Samantha has plenty of arms to hug us all!

dizcuzted · April 13, 2016, 5:36pm

At least she was safe from the threat of ISIS!

dizcuzted · April 13, 2016, 5:37pm

Brainwashing. It’s the only explanation that makes any sense.