This isn’t an accident, either:
A 3-year-old boy, identified by YPD as Darrien Nez, was transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center by emergency personnel and later pronounced dead.
Court records indicated that Spry had been staying at the residence to help her daughter pack for a move.
Spry owns a 9mm handgun, which was inside a backpack. She said she was packing the bathroom that morning and placed the backpack on top of a clothes dryer. Court records indicated that Spry said she saw her grandson come into the room but continued with her packing.
According to court records, Spry said she heard the gun go off about five minutes later and that when she looked over, she saw her grandson lying on the floor, bleeding from the nose. Court records did not indicate how the child got the gun.
Court records also indicated that Spry admitted to using methamphetamine the day before at about 11 p.m. and placed the pipe she used to smoke it in the same backpack as the gun.
She’s currently being held on $500,000 bail. Unlike the Kentucky parents who don’t look like they’ll face any charges. But let’s let Charlie Pierce have the last word on this madness:
[…]If your “way of life” involves handing deadly weapons to five-year olds, your way of life is completely screwed up and you should change it immediately because it is stupid and wrong. (And, again, also, too: goddammit, “learning to use and respect a gun” means at least knowing that the fking thing is loaded when it’s sitting in the corner of the parlor like it’s a damn umbrella stand or something, and we should talk about that part, too.) It is not in any way “normal” to hand a kindergartner a firearm. If a mother from the inner-city of, say, Philadelphia did that, and the kid subsequently shot his sister to death, Fox News never would stop yelling about the crisis in African American communities and the Culture Of Death, and rap music, too. If your culture is telling you that children who have only recently emerged from toddlerhood should have their own guns, then your culture is deadly and dangerous and that should concern you, too. If your culture demands that, in the face of a general national outrage over the killing of other children, your politics work to loosen the gun laws you have, as they apparently did in Kentucky, then your culture is making your politics stupid and wrong and you should change them, too.[…]
Seriously, let’s take a good, hard look at exactly who keeps pushing this Culture of Death and violence in communities.
And then there’s this (via The Bitchy Pundit):
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