Bryan and Pamela Reno
The Charlotte Observer
An 11-year-old Cleveland County girl accidentally shot her 19-year-old stepfather to death Friday with a handgun he had just acquired, county Sheriff Alan Norman said Saturday. When they arrived, they found Bryan Scott Reno dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest, Norman said. Authorities determined that Reno had purchased the gun either through a trade or purchase within 24 hours of the incident, Norman said. He said that on Friday evening, while his 35-year-old wife Pamela Reno slept, Bryan Reno showed the gun to his stepdaughter. At one point, Reno removed the magazine slide from the firearm and handed the .380-caliber gun to her to examine, Norman said. “During the course of her looking at the firearm, it’s apparent that she pulled the trigger of the firearm and it discharged,” Norman said. “It just appears he failed to check the chamber to make sure there was not a bullet in the chamber, and it turned fatal.” Neighbor Patty Saltares said the Renos had moved into their single-wide mobile home on Lemmons Road within the last couple of weeks.
At least we finally have a proper description of the unintentional discharge. What was that ridiculous pro-gun justification about using the passive voice? This way, attributing the mistake to a human person instead of the gun, doesn't seem to create any problems.
Trailer-trash red-necks, and everyone else for that matter, should have to pass a simple test in order to be qualified to own firearms. Many of them would be screened out right there. Those who pass should be required to have some minimal training during which they could learn that taking out the magazine is not enough to make the gun safe. I mean, how fucking stupid do you have to be to even need that lesson? Yet, how often do we read about negligent discharges that happen for that very reason?
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/07/4294301/11-year-old-girl-accidentally.html#.Uiwho8anrmM#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/09/07/4294301/11-year-old-girl-accidentally.html#.Uiwho8anrmM#storylink=cpy
