2 Year Old Child Dead From Playing With a Firearm

No excuse for this kind of “accident”, says FFL and Firearms instructor Gregg Kielma. I’m truly saddened by the boyfriend and girlfriend letting a child “play with a firearm let alone it not be secured in the home. These tragedies do not and should not ever happen, period.

Kielma continues, if you’re a parent who owns firearms with children in the home, and you don’t understand how to teach them firearm safety at a very young age you’re doing a disservice to you and your children. Classes are readily available through the USCCA and instructors like me who specialize in this type of training.

Lastly Kielma says, firearms protect our families in the right hands. Educate yourself, your family and children. Get the proper instruction and training from instructors like me and the USCCA.

A 2-year-old child was playing with a gun while in the bedroom with his mom in their Florida home. The mother, leaving the child to toy with the lethal weapon, wasn't paying attention. The gun then discharged and shot the child. The boy was declared dead at the scene.

The gun belonged to the woman's fiancée. It had been left unsecured and within arm’s reach of the child. Because of this, the 2-year-old was able to shoot himself.

In Florida, the law states that a weapon must be secured and locked away. Consequently, the parents of the child will be held responsible. The police chief released a statement. "This is Florida, and you know Floridians like their guns - and that's wonderful. However, responsible gun ownership cannot be understated. Guns have to be locked up and secure."

In 2021 there were 2,590 deaths by shooting for children under 17 in the US, according to the Pew Research Center. This is due to a few factors, including suicides, mass shootings, and of course, accidental situations like this. The 2-year-old fits into a specific category of child shooting fatality.

In this case, the child was playing with a gun, resulting in them shooting themselves. This accidental shooting category has more than a thousand cases a year. Unattended weapons in the US are a huge cause of injury and death in children.

With the sheer number of guns in the country, people become blase about them. In cases like this, the deadly weapon is left lying around unsecured. Nobody can blame a child for picking the weapon up thinking it was a toy.

The 2-year-old that shot themselves were behaving like any other kid would. Curiosity got the better of him or her, and the negligence of the parent led to his death. In Florida, the law states that a gun must be locked and secured. But, in other states, this is often not the case.