Three-year-old girl shoots 6-year-old

[jaybird2001wi]

People thought Milwaukee couldn't get any worse and people thought they seen it all in Milwaukee, now this. What is wrong with people these days? Keeping a loaded gun, let alone a felon having a loaded gun, where a child could get it is just plain negligence. I wish police could charge people for being dumb.
The 3-year-old won't be charged because a 3-year-old doesn't know any better and probably doesn't even know how a gun works. The 32-year-old man could be sent to the slammer for a long time for this.

[burniebrewer]

More than anything, it's just plain sad.

[IslandsAC]

Schwartz said the boy lived in the home, and that his mother was babysitting for the 3-year-old girl. The mother said she was out for a walk at the time of the shooting, Schwartz said.

Who goes out for a walk while they're babysitting a 3-year-old? Yikes.

[burniebrewer]

Schwartz said the boy lived in the home, and that his mother was babysitting for the 3-year-old girl. The mother said she was out for a walk at the time of the shooting, Schwartz said.

Who goes out for a walk while they're babysitting a 3-year-old? Yikes.

Geez, wouldn't you take the kid with you?

You'd be surprised, one house on my block has four kids between 3-8 years old and they are basically left to roam from dawn to dark. They don't go far, occasionally to my house, but I'd be freaked if I didn't know where my kid was at any given time.

 

[Invader3K]

It's stories like this that make a good case for why people should be required to have licenses in order to procreate.

 

burniebrewer, have you considered calling social services about that one?

[Jimbo]

Who goes out for a walk while they're babysitting a 3-year-old? Yikes.

The way I read the article, other adults were in the house at the time.

 

[bork]

And it was 10 at night. My 3 year old is in bed for a couple hours by that time.

I'm not overly surprised by the mother leaving the kid with a group of people at the house. I see this all the time. Parents bring their kids somewhere with a bunch of other people. Then they just assume someone else is watching them.

[brettac1]

jaybird has evolved into the master of the bummer thread - insomnia, child shootings, girl problems. He knows how to show us that there are things that suck worse than the Brewers losing 19-4.