3-Year Old Shoots His Father While He Watches Television
A man was shot and killed by his 3-year old son as he laid on the couch watching TV, according to police. Michael A. Bayless was shot and killed this weekend in his Indiana home by a gun that he had in the house. Sgt. Jerry Goodwin says that the boy found the .45 caliber handgun and shot him with it.
Goodwin also says that there is more to investigate, such as whether or not the little boy shot his dad at point blank range or from further across the room. Bayless, a married father of three, was home with his other kids at the time, but no one else was injured. The family was fixing the house at the time, which police are saying was being renovated as a vacation home for their family.
The shooting raises the bar for handgun control. The National Rifle Association usually comes front and center whenever a senseless shooting occurs, largely because they work night and day to keep guns in the street. We have to ask if the tragedy is worth it, but it seems that the NRA believes that no amount of death is worth losing their precious right to bear arms. That’s until one of their loved ones gets killed.
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Michael A. Bayless may win a “Darwin Award” for being stupid enough for leaving a .45 ACP handgun accessible to his 3-year old son that has watched hundreds of murders on TV and has no idea what a real gun will do as opposed to those Hollywood six-shooters that will shoot 24 times without reloading.
But quoting from the article, “We have to ask if the tragedy is worth it, but it seems that the NRA believes that no amount of death is worth losing their precious right to bear arms. That’s until one of their loved ones gets killed.”
There is another side of this coin. Based on the works of Dr. Kleck, criminology professor at Florida State University, about 7000 Americans use a gun for self defense every day or about 2.5 millions times a year. (See his books Point Blank and Targeting Guns).
It is quite amazing that a large percentage of black Americans support an important Ku Klux Klan policy – gun control. How do you think the Klan enforced Jim Crow when many Southern counties had much larger percentages of blacks than whites? The only way the Klan could do that was by disarming the blacks that might revolt against white domination. I wonder how Democratic politicians would look in white sheets?
For those that might read this and don’t like the public carry of firearms please carefully consider this question. If you are in Virginia or the many other states where our Virginia carry permits are good and two bad guys are trying to murder you with baseball bats what do you want me to do with my handgun that I carry every day? And be sure to respond. We wouldn’t want any gun control advocate to be upset for saving his or her life. That would be too awful to contemplate. Joseph L. Bass, Ed.D. http://www.abettersociety.info
Joseph L. Bass, EdD
July 15, 2012 at 7:10 pm
you gone call the man stupid after he got killed dont you think thats bad enough? how about those other children of his losing a father . seem like he was a good dad inspite of him makin a fatal mistake of leavin a gun around for his 3yr ol to find only to kill one of the bread winners of the home. i like everything else you were talkn about which is very true,but please have empathy for the poor wife and kids and him who lost his life by not letting his mind slip.
evelyn
July 16, 2012 at 12:32 am
DO NOT BLAME THE NRA FOR PARENTS CARELESSNESS! He knew he own a gun, knowing you have 3 children in the house. Let me guess, put 2 and 2 together. You have children in your house. Did a gun lock box come to mind?? 3 year old shoots father, but your going to blame the NRA? C’mon, Really?? When you buy a gun at the gun store you CAN get a lock box at the same store. DUH!! Now that little boy is scared for life because the parents were TOO LAZY TO PUT THE GUN IN A LOCK BOX!!
Patsy B
July 15, 2012 at 7:11 pm
pasty why be another heartless invisible online critic callin these parents lazy? do you or rather did you no them? no ones thinkin about these poor children who has not only lost a father, but a bread winner as well. i assume you either dont have children or dont have a husband to love yo cold hearted a*s because if you did, instead of beatin a dead horse, you’d have more empathy for the family. especially being a “woman”your self”
evelyn
July 16, 2012 at 12:49 am
Look we have to stop passing the buck. The parent is responsible not NRA . The parent have to secure to weapon when you have kids in the house and should have the safety on at all times it’s always sad when you lose a life. All we have to do is secure your weapon that’s all itis.
Reginald hunter
July 15, 2012 at 7:20 pm
How easy is it to pull the trigger on a gun?? and what happen to the safety catch? I don’t know to much about guns but these are some questions I wonder about
Starefire
July 15, 2012 at 9:19 pm
While I’m not entirely against gun ownership, I am against irresponsible ownership and that includes those who keep firearms within the reach of children. I’m actually surprised that a child of only 3 has the physical dexterity to pull the trigger on that gun.
Chris
July 15, 2012 at 9:24 pm
A terrible tragidy that’s for sure, but totally preventable. The fault lies with the parent. Anytime a firearm is in a house with children it needs to be secured, period…and regardless of the children’s age they need to be taught gun safety. Even if you don’t own a gun teach them what to do if they find one at a friends house. Also if you do have one in the house take the kids to the range with you so they can see and understand what they do…and one of the best things to do is teach them how to handle them properly when they are old enough. We own firearms in our house and our children have been taken hunting since very small so they’ve seen the consequence when the trigger is pulled. They’ve also come to the range and taught how to properly handle them…and also drilled into their heads that they’re NEVER to be touched without mom/dads help in the proper setting. Target shooting can be a fun family sport. Mom and dad have the only key to the safe and our kids know the punishment is severe if they ever even thought about messing with a gun…our house or at a friends.
Marie
July 15, 2012 at 9:48 pm
My uncles used guns to protect the family when the Klan came calling back in the 60′s to burn a cross in our yard. Robert Williams used guns to protect the black community in Monroe, NC. The Nazis used gun control to disarm the German population before they went on their rain of terror. Accidents happen and why use this tragedy to push a policy that can never be enforced. Americans are not going to give up their guns and part of the reason no country on this earth will ever try to invade America is because the population is heavily armed.
People die from slipping in the shower, are we going to outlaw smooth bottom bathtubs? Young men and women die in automobile accidents every year, are we going to ban automobiles?
Scotty
July 16, 2012 at 6:39 pm
jesus marian joseph God bless america
JUSTIN
August 12, 2012 at 12:11 am
What happened to Mr. Bayless is a tragedy. He failed keep his gun hidden and locked in a safe place. A tragedy such as this does not raise the bar for handgun control, it raises the bar for being a responsible gun owner. Tragedies such as this were occurring long before the debate over handgun control took center stage.
Valerie
April 18, 2013 at 10:10 am