This seems to happen a lot with cop’s weapons:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Authorities say a 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a Tennessee sheriff’s deputy.
Investigators say Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning on Saturday was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom of his Lebanon home when the toddler came in and picked up a gun off the bed. Sheriff Robert Bryan says the weapon discharged, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning.
She was pronounced dead at the scene. The child is not related to her or her husband.
Bryan says the shooting was a terrible accident and that within seconds of Fanning placing the gun on the bed, the toddler picked it up.
The gun was not Fanning’s service weapon and the sheriff says the deputy’s weapons are normally stored in a safe.
if only the deputy’s wife were armed, this never would have happened!
How did the 4-year-old disengage the safety? And how did he get off a shot when there was an armed cop in the room? What a sad day for all connected to this tragedy, and what a sad day for us as a nation to have to live with so many unsecured weapons falling into the hands of those whom have no business anywhere near a loaded gun.
A neighbor’s husband, when he worked for a law enforcement agency, never entered the house with his gun unless he immediately went to the gun safe and locked it up.
His wife said she would leave and and take their child if it were not locked up whenever around the house. And she meant it.