A 5-year-old Utah boy died when he accidentally shot himself with a handgun in a small town south of Salt Lake City on Thursday, police said.

Lt. Mike Wall with the Santaquin Police Department told KSL-TV the boy found a 9 mm handgun in the back room of his house and fired a single shot. The boy’s parents and siblings were inside the home when the shooting happened but were not with him in the room.

  • dinckel
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    3526 days ago

    Would love to hear about how this could have been prevented, by having more guns, and less guns restrictions

    • Ioughttamow
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      3525 days ago

      With more guns, the staggering weight of choice paralysis would have stopped this

    • @ASDraptor
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      1425 days ago

      Easy: if the kid had a gun, he could have threatened the kid with a gun with his gun so the kid with a gun wouldn’t have shot the kid with a gun.

      I mean, isn’t it obvious?

    • @ravhall@discuss.online
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      125 days ago

      Obviously if there were more guns back there he would’ve been overwhelmed by the number of guns it would not have been able to select a single gun. Solution is purchasing more firearms, And displaying those firearms fully loaded.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        325 days ago

        This is why every wall of my house is lined with guns: So I don’t accidentally shoot something.