An argument over Christmas gifts turned deadly in Florida after a 14-year-old boy allegedly fatally shot his older sister.

A 14-year-old boy allegedly fatally shot his older sister in Florida after a family argument over Christmas presents, officials said Tuesday.

The teen had been out shopping on Christmas Eve with Abrielle Baldwin, his 23-year-old sister, as well as his mother, 15-year-old brother and sister’s children, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference.

The teenage brothers got into an argument about who was getting more Christmas presents.

“They had this family spat about who was getting what and what money was being spent on who, and they were having this big thing going on in this store,” Gualtieri said.

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 months ago

    What if I told you it’s much easier to use and illegal gun when they are readily available?

    Only country where this happens regularly to not have figured anything out. Stop embarrassing yourself and just post thoughts and prayers

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
      13·
      10 months ago

      USA is not the only country with civilian gun ownership and carry being legal.

      So with such crime stats it should be your first thought that the problem is narrower (EDIT: and more USA-specific) than people having guns.

      Unless you’ve already made up your mind and now just want to somehow nail facts to it.

      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        I didn’t make any argument about legal gun ownership. Guns are legal in my country and this doesn’t happen.

        Read into arguments much? You had already set your mind on what I was saying before you read it

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
          3·
          10 months ago

          What if I told you it’s much easier to use and illegal gun when they are readily available?

          Seemed to mean that you tie availability of legal guns with availability of illegal guns, which is not wrong, but in a working system it is insignificant.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      The solution is to examine how these guns got out of the legal system and into the illegal system.

      The 2nd Amendment isn’t going anywhere so you can take that pipedream off the table barring 290 votes in the House, 67 votes in the Senate, and ratification from 38 states.

      So what CAN we do?

      Well…

      #1) Hold gun owners accountable for storing a gun in something like a car that can be easily be broken into or stolen.

      #2) When kids are arrested for something like burglary, you search their homes for weapons.

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
        11·
        10 months ago

        So to start with: universal registration and ID/licensing for gun ownership, and strict liability on registered owners for crimes committed by their guns.

        I’m in, sounds great.

        • jordanlund@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 months ago

          2nd Amendment. Can’t be done. “Shall not be infringed.”

          Add to that the most recent ruling from the Supreme Court:

          https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/597/20-843/

          “the government must affirmatively prove that its firearms regulation is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms.”

          This is a new twist from the Supremes. Gun laws must prove that they are in keeping with “historical tradition”. So, banning felons from owning guns is allowed, there’s an historical tradition for that.

          So if there’s no historical basis, it won’t pass muster at the Supremes.

          • admiralteal@kbin.social
            3·
            10 months ago

            Meh, the modern interpretation came from corrupt justices legislating from the bench, building completely ahistoric interpretations to suit modern sensibilities. This whole absolute 2A thing is entirely modern with no sincere history backing it up. The solution is court reform which is needed for a host of other reasons anyway.

            But also, just to point out, YOU are arguing against YOUR OWN solutions. Which is absolute proof of how intractable the situation is right now. And the situation has become intractable because of people like you.

            You’re the problem.

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            You think you can just say “2a” and that shuts every argument down, it’s so cringe

            • jordanlund@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 months ago

              When the argument is the overly simplistic “well, just ban guns” the counter argument doesn’t need to be more nuanced than that. We can’t ban guns, full stop. The sooner we abandon that dead end logic, the sooner we can start working on what we CAN change.

              For example, remember the guy who shot up Michigan State? Had a prior felony arrest on a gun charge, but was allowed to plead down to a misdemeanor, did his time, did his probation, passed a background check, bought a gun and shot up the school.

              How is this for a fundamental change:

              If someone gets arrested on felony GUN CHARGE, you stick them with the felony. No plea deals on gun charges.

              Felons, legally, can’t buy guns.

              Or, how about this, you let him plea down to the misdemeanor charge, but you make it so ANY gun conviction, felony or misdemeanor, blocks you from gun ownership.

              Crazy, right? But those are the conversations we AREN’T having because people get hung up on “ban guns” and that will NEVER happen.