Giving up the video game controller -

[Nolomite]

A teenage Mississippi girl whose 9-year-old brother allegedly shot her over a video gamehas died, according to ABC Tupelo affiliate WTVA-TV.

Dijonae White, 13, died at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Tupelo Sunday evening after the boy allegedly shot her in the head during an argument Saturday over the video game’s controller, Monroe County officials told the station.

The children’s mother was in another room preparing lunch when the incident occurred, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told WTVA.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/mississip...ter-death-143603132--abc-news-topstories.html

Judging by the comments after the article, many people are missing the point, and the tragedy.

A LITTLE BOY KILLED HIS SISTER!!!

 

[SeaPA]

"But it was MY turn!"

 

[DFSNOLE]

Y'all be very careful with this one.

 

[Nolomite]

I am always careful

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

That's one way to get the controller back.

 

[NDallasRuss]

Y'all be very careful with this one.

Is commenting about the dead kid being named after mustard crossing the line? Asking for a friend.

 

[DFSNOLE]

Is commenting about the dead kid being named after mustard crossing the line? Asking for a friend.

Classless but not over the line I've drawn.

 

[NDallasRuss]

Classless but not over the line I've drawn.

Thanks - I'll let him know!

 

[funksouljon]

A teenage Mississippi girl whose 9-year-old brother allegedly shot her over a video gamehas died, according to ABC Tupelo affiliate WTVA-TV.

Dijonae White, 13, died at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Tupelo Sunday evening after the boy allegedly shot her in the head during an argument Saturday over the video game’s controller, Monroe County officials told the station.

The children’s mother was in another room preparing lunch when the incident occurred, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told WTVA.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/mississip...ter-death-143603132--abc-news-topstories.html

Judging by the comments after the article, many people are missing the point, and the tragedy.

A LITTLE BOY KILLED HIS SISTER!!!

Well, should never go to the comments anyways. But what a horrible story. Nothing but losing here no matter the outcome. At 9, he should know better.

 

[noleit]

This is totally messed up on several levels!

 

[FSUTribe76]

[QUOTE="Nolomite, post: 3608245, member: 6178]

A LITTLE BOY KILLED HIS SISTER!!![/QUOTE]

No, the parents killed their daughter by leaving a 9 yo with access to something lethal. It would be my same opinion whether it was a gun or opioids left outside of a safe with a child around.

 

[seminoledq]

I had a friend growing up who threw numerous controllers at the TV after losing video games. I thought his temper was bad before reading this story. Wow!

 

[EconSean]

Is commenting about the dead kid being named after mustard crossing the line? Asking for a friend.

I immediately thought “Gulden.”

 

[seminole97]

No, the parents killed their daughter by leaving a 9 yo with access to something lethal. It would be my same opinion whether it was a gun or opioids left outside of a safe with a child around.

I’m curious, and don’t assume my own experience to be universal, but at 9 years old did you have any idea what a gun would do?

Or would you have been surprised?

Would the adults in your family trust you to hold a loaded firearm at 9 years old

Maybe we should have a poll on the age that people first shot a firearm (including never having done so). I couldn’t guess how that’d turn out.

 

[Deerfuel2]

I’m curious, and don’t assume my own experience to be universal, but at 9 years old did you have any idea what a gun would do?

Or would you have been surprised?

Would the adults in your family trust you to hold a loaded firearm at 9 years old

Maybe we should have a poll on the age that people first shot a firearm (including never having done so). I couldn’t guess how that’d turn out.

I know that I had a 20 guage shotgun in my room around 9yrs old. It was my Dad's when he was a kid. It would have never occurred to me to use it on a person. There was no fascination or mystery about it. It was just something to hunt with. I lived in a neighborhood, so I didn't get to go hunting until the weekend, when we would go to the woods. My Dad's guns were just tucked into his closet, easy access if I had wanted to use them for something bad. A gun was really nothing special to me. I never thought of it as something to use against a person...

 

[NDallasRuss]

I know that I had a 20 guage shotgun in my room around 9yrs old. It was my Dad's when he was a kid. It would have never occurred to me to use it on a person. There was no fascination or mystery about it. It was just something to hunt with. I lived in a neighborhood, so I didn't get to go hunting until the weekend, when we would go to the woods. My Dad's guns were just tucked into his closet, easy access if I had wanted to use them for something bad. A gun was really nothing special to me. I never thought of it as something to use against a person...

This has been pretty much been the experience with the daughter. She had a BB gun before she was 9yo - we used it to teach firearm safety, and to plink paper zombie targets in the backyard. She got a .22 rifle when she was 11yo. When I got my pistola, I sat her down, let her see it, talked to her about it, and then put it in the closet. It's not some crazy, hidden treasure that she knows nothing about - it's just a tool, like a hammer. If she wanted to see it, she could ask me, but she hasn't. Again, there's no mystery around it, and she know what it does, so it's no big deal.

 

[RangerNole]

I have owned and been around guns for over 40 years; never once did a thought about grabbing it and just killing someone come into my mind. Was told at a young age it is not a toy, it can kill, etc. I have trained 100's of people to use a weapon; kids, wife, in-laws etc. The one thing I always stress is if you pull your weapon the next thing that happens is someone dies; because that is the only reason you should be pulling a weapon, other than shooting for fun.

This is why the whole gun debate drives me crazy. So many people have no idea about responsible gun ownership, so many people are really bad parents, there are just so many things we as a nation could do to manage gun violence in our country. Instead everyone picks a side and screams, blames things that have no bearing on the situation and in the end nothing is solved. As a firm believer in 2 A I am willing to require more to own a weapon; but as a realists the more rights I give up the more rights someone will ask to take. Kind of sad that as a first world country we can't have sensible people come to reasonable solutions.

Just in case this is to political here is a funny story about guns I may have told before. We keep a weapon in all our cars and I have a gun safe for most of the rest I own. When we take our family vacation we take my wife's car, packing up I moved her weapon to her side of the car and put mine on the drivers side. My wife gets in the car and says so we have 2 guns in the car now? My then 6-8 y/o daughter from the 3rd row of the family truckster yells "back up momma". This is how my kids were raised they know about things and know enough to respect things; more importantly they were parented so they have respect, can make decisions etc. Maybe if more parents actually took raising their kids more seriously we wouldn't have so many issues we do today in society.