According to US media reports, there was a shocking accidental shooting case in the United States earlier this month: a baby under the age of 2 in Savannah County found his father's loaded pistol while playing and shot his father Walters; although neighbors called the police in time and rushed him to memorial medical center, Walters eventually died of his injuries. The incident has sparked a wave of quarrels between gun owners and gun banters, the former arguing that this was just an accident and that there was no need to make a fuss, while the latter said that similar incidents were not the first time they had occurred, and that this made children bear the burden of manslaughter from an early age, which was not conducive to growth, but the quarrels did not play a role in the end.
Yesterday morning, there was another manslaughter in Columbus, Ohio, and the process of the case was also very tortuous. Police received a report from a mother that the man had beaten their daughter to death by mistake, and the voice of the girl's father could be heard on the phone, and he was distraught and asked what his daughter was doing here. The operator could also hear both parents praying for the girl to wake up and asking when the police would arrive; soon after, the ambulance and police arrived and took her to the hospital, but after only an hour the girl was declared dead and the police took the man and woman to the police station for questioning.
During the interrogation, they learned that at three o'clock in the morning, the man heard the alarm in his garage and his first reaction was to be invaded. So the man approached the garage with a gun, and in the panic, he saw a figure and immediately raised his gun and shot it down. Unfortunately, he found that the person who fell to the ground was his 16-year-old daughter. The US media also revealed that his daughter is a third-year high school student, and posts on social media accounts show that she is looking for a summer job and considering whether she should go to college closer to home or farther away, but all this is ruined.
A related person revealed to reporters that most states in the United States have an "unlimited right to defense" guideline, that is, the owner of the house has the right to use lethal weapons against illegal intruders, unless he can distinguish at the time that the other party does not have any threat, which is also known as residential defense. Apparently, the man's environment at the time met the conditions for shooting: his house was attacked by "invaders", and in the early hours of the morning it was impossible to tell whether the other party was dangerous or not, and shooting with a gun was completely legal. It's just that it was an accident, and if the person who was shot was a car thief who broke into the garage, he himself did not have to bear any criminal responsibility.
After the news was reported, some American netizens quoted several other news to express their "helplessness": the state has had at least a dozen cases of burglary discovered by the owner in the past six months, and the result was that the thieves were killed with guns. They stated their concerns: "You know, half of the suspects in the robberies or thefts here are gun owners, and I can understand the situation of the father, who is at risk of being killed at any time, but this uneasiness has caused another tragedy." 」 ”