Monday, December 19, 2005

Let's Play "Count the Tragedies"

This story is tragic in more ways than I care to count right now (emphasis mine).

A 4-year-old boy fatally shot himself in the head with a gun he found at home in a bedroom closet, authorities said.

Jovan Mitchell was playing with his 5-year-old cousin Sunday when he shot himself with the 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, Hillsborough County sheriff's investigators said.

The cousin, Lyndon Jenkins, said Jovan had gotten into a bedroom closet before the gun went off. He went to another room of the apartment and told Jovan's mother, 18-year-old Charvanette Mitchell, who called 911.


Cries for tougher gun control laws from the "Blame the Gun" brigade in 3..2..1...