Toddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworks

I hate every single part about this headline.

For everyone focusing on the toddler alone in a hot car part. This was a fireworks stand. So they were probably 10 to 20 feet away. We can hope they opened the windows, which would make it roughly the same temp as where they were. So let's refocus on the gun please.

FrEeDoM

I don't leave my carry gun around my adult GF or untrained friends.....everything else is locked up. WTF

As an advocate of the 2nd amendment who thinks gun regulations need to be more strict assessing theental health of anyone purchasing a gun, I find it very hard to believe parents who leave a child in a hot car with a loaded gun to both go into a store to shop could pass any test of their fucking mental stability. This had to be premeditated whether they can prove it legally. Someone else in the thread said it was 90F when this happened so when you add it all up, a toddler was left out if their carseat, with a loaded gun, in either a running vehicle the kid could've kicked into gear accidently or in a vehicle that wasn't running on a fucking 90 degree day. Way too many cognizant decisions were made to not charge them with 1st degree murder.

I have a serious question here that I always get when I read news like this. As someone not from the US but having experience with guns through my military training, how is it that toddlers can even pull the trigger of a weapon?

When we had the training for the pistol it was difficult to pull the trigger. IIRC it was even stated that this was by design so that you can't pull the trigger by accident.

Are there no regulations for such a thing in the US or are toddlers that strong to do it anyway?

I feel like even if there was no gun, this toddler would have died from being left alone in a car in the summer time.

It's a state by state thing but, yeah there are states like NY has safe storage laws, transporting loaded firearms laws amoung many many more but NY is one of the more strict states for gun regulation. Idk what the GA laws are like but generally the deep south is very unregulated.

Parents of the year going to take gun heat while they were just lining up ways to kill the kid.

'Murica.

I guess what they needed was a good guy with a gun, eh?

The parent(s) did the crime, the toddler did the time. Don't let the parent(s) own firearms anymore and be done with it. Prison time isn't going to do anyone any good; the parents had more than enough taken away from them already.

What a sad and unsurprisingly common story this is.

I love that they set up a Gofundme for the 'parents'. Look his daddy even has prison orange on and the little boy got his rows tight, makes me tear up thinking of all the great things little Nazi could have achieved

Poor little Nazi Owens. God works in mysterious ways

Every gun owner thinks they're a responsible gun owner.

It’s unclear if the parents –  identified by family as Sam Odums and Laileighauna Parks – will face charges in the incident.

The owner absolutely should be charged. Clearly the gun was unsecured.

Also, it was over 90°F in Douglas, GA. You don't leave a fucking toddler in your car with that kind of heat.

that sentence got more American with every word

Maybe the kid killed himself so he wouldn't have to slowly die of heat stroke because his idiot parents left him alone in a car (edit: WITH A LOADED GUN WHAT THE FUCK) in a Walmart parking lot.

It’s too easy to make a baby. It’s really a problem.

Every word of that sentence made it worse. Flip those patents straight to heck

The question of whether we need to be armed to be capable of defending ourselves against tyrannical governments coming for our lives should have come after the question of whether we are capable of defending ourselves against ourselves.

Im sorry, what?

The ONLY ONLY ONLY LITERALLY ONLY way to have Prevented this was if the Toddler killed the Gun before the Gun was able to be used to Kill the Toddler! There's LITERALLY NO OTHER WAY this could have been prevented! Either that or make it Illegal for BLACK PEOPLE to have a Gun!

-Not Racist Republicans!

Imagine walking back to your car to get your kid and seeing the scene in Pulp Fiction...yikes

So much WTF. Leaving a toddler alone in the car in the middle of Summer with an unsecured loaded firearm in car.

I feel bad for the kid. The only silver lining here is that the parents are keeping their stupidity out of the gene pool.

Sorry for the kid, but 2A is more important than that. /s