I’m guessing the dad accidentally shot the mom and the ‘the kid did it’ story is cover.
:rolleyes:
More to the point, do you think, DanBlather, that it is at all unhealthy for a four-year-old boy to watch his father shoot trap?
Why did the hospital administrator try to stop the cops from interviewing the girl?
No, I think that is an appropriate use for a gun: both as a sport and as training for hunting. I shot trap at Boy Scout camp and did target practice with a rifle as well
I get uncomfortable when we start talking about whether a shotgun or hollow point bullets are more appropriate for killing a human being (though I am sometimes tempted for having an “open season” on fathers like the one in the OP).
Yeah, but clay pigeons got no meat on them at all. Taste like mud when you boil 'em.
Okay. That’s fair - though I should note that my comments on the subject were restricted to practical matters of storage.
A fine red mist is entirely too hard to clean up. You want a round that goes in and doesn’t come out. Minimizing the mess and the potential that an in and out could hit someone else. Not that I’m debating hollowpoints -v- shotguns or anything… 
re: The OP. Sperm donor is too stupid for words.
Two reasons off the top of my head:
Against hospital policy (and good sense) to have anyone visit a small child without the parents’ permission.
Having 2 strangers walk in on a 2 year old and ask her questions about the most horrible thing that’s ever happened to her isn’t conducive to healing & recovery.
I assume that is what the hospital was thinking, however… I doubt that the cops were going to set up bright lights and go through the good-cop bad-cop routine.
Yep, shoot him clean when he’s in your house.
The red mist comes from when you dispose of his body, outside, by feeding it through a wood-chipper.
I apolgize for the cheap shot.
ETA: that was not an attempt at a pun.
One Dan to another, I’ll offer my apology for joining on to FoiGrasIsEvil’s diversion (#9) by presenting my opinion of shotguns for home defense. But if the above is directed at me, I fail to see any place where I offered a bigger is better argument, nor any reference to the ultimate highest and best fate for an intruder.
(And I’ll have you know that I can only produce this many typos by using one finger from each of my two hands!) (Way back when, in my high school, “typing class” was actually restricted to girls.)
A father handing a firearm to a toddler indicates a level of maturity and good sense hardly beyond that of toddler himself. I shouldn’t have to state this, but apparently I do.
Iwasn’t aiming (again not trying to pun) at anyone in particular. I just have seen an alarming tendency in past threads to discussions of what sort of weapons and ammunition is best suited to killing people. It amounts to an almost pornographic lust of guns.
I can understand discussions of the best guns for hunting or target shooting, or an interest in gun collecting, but when it strays into long discussions of the best way to kill people it is disturbing (and almost uniquely American).
I have the same problem with survivalists; it’s as though they will be disappointed if they don’t get to use their stash of dried food, radiations detectors, and gun stash some day.
Well, there’s January 19, 2038, to look forward to.
Fair enough; I’ve seen that happen too. But really, this thread is up to thirty-something posts, and it hasn’t (yet) happened here.
Methinks perhaps thou doth protest, shall we say, pro-actively?
(bolding mine)
THAT’s the name I was trying to think of last night while watching Mythbusters! Thanks! 
I plan on killing home invaders with my Kung Fu.
Any two year old that can acquire my Kung Fu is fully qualified to use it.
Yeah, that’s how I saw it at first too. That would have been a much more positive outcome. 
Just what the hell was going through this idiot’s mind? I can’t even comprehend it. But then, I dunno. Something doesn’t seem right about this account. Unless he handed her a single-action pistol with the hammer cocked, I don’t see how it would even be feasible for her to pull the trigger. What if somehow this dipshit dad had a negligent discharge that struck his daughter (or worse), and then decided to spin this story as some kind of insane excuse? Maybe I’m just being too cynical. It would be nice to know what kind of gun it was, though.