Toddler Accidentally Shoots, Kills Deputy's Wife

Was showing off his guns at home

Authorities say a 4-year-old boy got ahold of a loaded gun at a family cookout and shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy.

Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.

Comments

[Bernieyeball]

Guns are for everyone!

[Best Of All Possible Tyrannies]

Well, it seems to me if we had an instant background check system the database would have flagged that 4 year old as ineligible to own that super-duper deadly assault weapon with a cyclic rate of 4x10^16 armor piercing disposable magazine clips per minute.

Or something.

[Ted Levy]

We need laws to remove guns from the homes of deputies! If only one wife can be saved...

[darius404]

But remember, cops are totally more responsible than the rest of us....

[SQRLSY One]

If only the cop had had 50,000 hours or more of prefessional instruction by expertologists of expertology of gunology, taught by a PHd instead of some sorry SOB with a mere master's degree, this would NOT have happened!

[sloopyinca]

Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.

Guns don't "discharge". Someone shoots them. Fucking AP and their passive voice bullshit.

[vonPeterhof]

In grammatical terms this isn't passive voice, just active voice with an inanimate subject.

[Capt Ace Rimmer]

Four year olds can get away with anything. Imagine the possibilities.

[Capt Ace Rimmer]

Is the kid named Bean?

[johnl]

So while entertaining guests at a cookout, Daniel and Josephine Fanning were in their bedroom together. And Daniel was showing guns to an unnamed relative, either the 4 YO or someone else. So there are at least 3 people in the bedroom, the 4 YO, the Fannings, and the possible other unnamed relative. Someone is shot, and the 4 YO is blamed. This is a whole lot of people in the bedroom at a cookout. I bet the 4 YO is the unnamed relative.

[JeremyR]

It's like the hunting accidents where the dog gets blamed for pulling the trigger

[Johnimo]

I know from personal experience that ANYONE who puts a loaded gun on the bed for folks to "look at" is asking for big trouble. A gun owner has a duty to never hand a loaded gun to anyone and to never show-off a loaded gun to anyone other than the person whose last sight it is meant to be.

Why? If you have to ask, then you need more instruction before you own a gun.

[jester]

I missed the sheriff...instead I shot the de-pu-ty's.......wife. The kid has a bright future in reggae.