another wierd accident

[WildBill]

My pet peeve is calling these kind of situations an "accident". It is either "negligent" or a "homicide", but it surely is not an "accident".

I understand why you are saying this, but I still disagree. At this point I don't think that are enough facts to determine negligence.

Respectfully,l I disagree with your disagreement.

unless the gun was sitting on the ground or table by itself, with no human interaction AND it went off on it's own.. Is fired though intentional manipulation of the firing device or was negligently operated in such a way as to make it discharge. in any case, the gun firing was NOT an accident.

Have you or someone you know ever had something bad happen? Have you ever been in a car crash or dropped and broken a dish? Was there negligence involved in every incidence?

Not every incident involves negligence but at least nine times out of ten car crashes are caused by negligence or some other error by one or more drivers. For unintended firearms discharges I hear about, the percentage caused by human error seems to be even higher. I don't know the details of this incident but based on the information we do have, I can't blame someone for playing the pretty significant odds.

Errors caused by people are not necessarily negligent.

[WildBill]

Updated story, but no new information.

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/08 ... -accident/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

One of the comments was that the story had been updated/re-written three times in a day. Another suggests that the wife shot the husband and the bullet passed through him and wounded the daughter.

[recaffeination]

Updated story, but no new information.

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/08 ... -accident/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

One of the comments was that the story had been updated/re-written three times in a day. Another suggests that the wife shot the husband and the bullet passed through him and wounded the daughter.

If it was intentional then it wasn't negligent.

Unless she didn't intend to hit both of them.

[WildBill]

Updated story, but no new information.

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/08 ... -accident/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

One of the comments was that the story had been updated/re-written three times in a day. Another suggests that the wife shot the husband and the bullet passed through him and wounded the daughter.

If it was intentional then it wasn't negligent.

Unless she didn't intend to hit both of them.

Maybe it was reckless?

[recaffeination]

Could be. It sure looks less likely it was a true accident.

[stroo]

It happened at 1 AM. My guess it there was some alcohol involved.