Boy (6) with 3 years of firearms training from father, shoots sister (4) in the face with shotgun.

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67. Know what pisses me off the most about this?

Not only did the sister lose her life, but now the boy will have serious issues for the rest of his life. I've met parents like this - they think he's old enough to handle a gun because they 'taught' him, they will also think that him shooting his sister is HIS fault, and they will probably never let him forget it. Neighbors of ours let their 7 year old drive a snowmobile around (in town, where it was against the law no less) when my kids were playing outside. I heard the sound but rushed outside too late, the 7 year old boy ran over my 8 year old daughter. Thankfully, there was about 2 feet of fresh, soft snow and my daughter just sank (sunk?) into it as the vehicle went over her legs, and she was fine. I gathered up my kids and took them inside and read them the riot act about being around kids driving ATVs or snowmobiles.

An hour later, the dad knocks on my door with his little boy, and starts yelling at his kid in front of me telling him to apologize and then instead of apologizing for letting his kid drive around, he said he was sorry that his kid 'was being a little asshole' and that his kid 'should've known better'. WTF? He's SEVEN. He shouldn't BE DRIVING. How fucking dumb are some people?

If something had happened to my daughter, I can guarantee that dad would've been blaming his kid for it. Parents like this piss me off to no end. Some people have NO idea what is developmentally appropriate for their kids. I consider it abuse. I have memories of my parents yelling at me or hitting me for things I would've had NO idea about at those ages. I even remember thinking, as I was being hit, "I don't know what I did!" Now that I have kids, I'm like WTF is WRONG with people like this?

I really feel for that little boy, he's going to be so messed up