6 Year Old Accidentally Shot by 4 Year Old
Six-year-old Brandon shot by four year old in
New Jersey
The 9th of April 2013, the
six-year-old boy Brandon was shot by his four-year-old playmate while they were
playing in the four-year-old’s backyard nearby Toms River in New Jersey.
According to Police Chief Michael Mastronardy,
the two boys were playing when the four-year-ole went inside. When the child
came back, he had a 22-caliber rifle in his hands. From about 15 metres, the
boy fired the rifle and hit Brandon in his head. The four-year-old’s parents,
who were home at the moment called 911 as quick as possible. Brandon was taken
into Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune City, but even
though the doctors tried their very best to save the little boy’s life, he was
pronounced dead at 5 p.m. the next day.
Friends,
family and neighbours were in shock and couldn’t believe what they had just
experienced. Brandon’s uncle, Daniel Watkins, told CNN that the two children
were friends, and that it was nothing but a tragically accident. Even though he
find the incident as an accident, the Atlantic County prosecutor’s office, who
are leading the investigation, will determine whether charges will be filled in
the case, and if so, against whom. The four-year-old’s neighbour, Debi Coto
said in an interview done by ABC News: “I'm sad for
the children involved and their families, but I'm angry with whoever owns that
gun and allowed a little child to get hold of it. A four-year-old can't load a gun”.
Statements like these are usual in cases where someone gets shot, the gun
policy in the United States are debated.
To buy a gun in the US you
need: 1. an ID, 2. enough money to pay for the gun and 3. you must not have a
criminal record. When it’s so easy to
access a gun in USA, it’s easier to understand why so many people die due to
gun shootings. Whether it’s a school shooting, a street fight with weapons or,
in this case, what we characterize as an accident were a weapon is involved. Some
reasons why the gun policy isn’t stricter in the US, is the history of the
country. When the thirteen states on the east coast of the United States became
independent from the Englishmen late in the 18th century, they
defended themselves by guns, and overthrew the Englishmen at last. This
happening is a part of the Americans’ identity, and it is also a law who says
that people have the right to keep and bear arms. The second Amendment sounds
like this: “A well regulated militia
being necessary to the security of a free state, the right for the people to
keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
Even though there are both
people supporting the gun policy and people fighting for a stricter gun policy
in the USA, it’ll be a discussion for a long time. We want a stricter gun
policy in the United States of America because we think that the number of
killed people by weapons at about 30.000 Americans a year, which means more
than 80 citizens a day, would decrease dramatically.
When we searched through the
stuff in the media, we couldn’t find big differences in the articles. But we
concluded with something: That the ABC News probably was the first to write the
article since it stood that the name was unknown, while they in among the BBC
had given the name of the kid who was killed; Brandon.
And at last we wrote a poem about the tragically
incident.
A little
four-year-old went out to play
the four-year-old was so afraid
He went inside when they had fun
And he came out with a gun
The gun fired of towards his little friend
the bullet was flying towards the end
the shot in his head
he laid down dead
and flew up to heaven above
the four-year-old was so afraid
He went inside when they had fun
And he came out with a gun
The gun fired of towards his little friend
the bullet was flying towards the end
the shot in his head
he laid down dead
and flew up to heaven above
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