Just Another Day In Gunmerica: 8-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shoots 90-Year-Old Woman Intentionally

[Crunchy Frog]

6. If it was the old lady who left the gun out

then it was she who was criminally negligent. A child that age doesn't have the judgement to handle a loaded firearm responsibly, so the person who left it accessible is the one to blame.

For people with dementia, you would think that there would be some mechanism by which her firearms could be removed from her posession. Did she have any family looking out for her safety? Were they negligent?

Unless the kid broke into the house, the problem was not with the kid. The problem was with a loaded firearm being left in a place where a kid his age could access it.

The kid is probably going to end up damaged for life from this experience.