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.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    1112·
    1 year ago

    Someone in Prague just killed 15 people with a bolt action firearm…

    We have an issue with our society, not our firearms.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        24·
        1 year ago

        Our firearms have been around for a lot longer than we have had these recent mass shootings issue…

        • otp@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          Firearm technology (and perhaps accessibility?) has been increasing since the earliest firearms in the US. I wonder how guns per capita has been changing (if at all), too

    • bricklove@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Where did you see that it was a bolt action rifle? I couldn’t find any real details on the weapons used. I’m looking for sensible gun policies to advocate for in the US and a mass shooting with a bolt action refutes my “limit the rate of fire” idea.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        There is a video out there, and it shows him cycling the action. It was basically a dressed up hunting rifle he used.

        If you’re actually wanting to solve our violence problem, you go to the root of our societies issues, not the tool used. All of these things below would curb our violence as a whole 1000xs more than any new gun control can.

        We can start with:

        • Single payer healthcare

        • Ending the War on Drugs

        • Ending Qualified immunity

        • Properly funding our schools and not just rich white suburb schools.

        • Build more schools and hire more teachers for proper pay so the class room sizes aren’t 30-40 kids for one teacher.

        • UBI (at least start talking about it) once AI takes over most of the blue collar jobs.

        • End for profit prisons

        • Enforce the laws already on the books

        • Make sure there are safety nets for poor families so the kids don’t turn to violence/gangs to survive.

        • Increase the minimum wage

        • Recreate our mental healthcare so kids don’t turn to the internet for support. And to help veterans not end up as a suicide number.

        • Actively make a law to solidify Pro-choice rights. More unwanted children do not help our situation.

        • Banning Insider Trading for Congress

        • Term limits

        • Ranked Choice Voting so we can move away from a 2 party system