Nathan Beaver, Babysitter, Shot By Boy For Stepping On His Foot

JACKSON, Ohio — Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.

Witnesses told police the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot. Beavers was watching the child at a mobile home in Jackson with several other teenagers and several other children.

Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen says authorities are investigating. The child has not been charged.

Comments

[brooklyncitizen]

Child's play.

[Wilburrr]

Yup. This is what happens when you let little kids play video games and watch old Clint Eastwood movies.....

[raphaeljo]

this is madness.....but still hope he wasn't being sexually abused by that babysitter or his irresponsible parents....what kind of parents would have a 4 year-old shooting people?

[Beninn]

The kind of parents you take children away from.

[Wilburrr]

YES! Decent parents would have taught better accuracy and fire control.

[SOOKOOYAH GURL]

I was wondering if this person inappropriately touched the child to evoke suck anger.. Stepping on the child's toe? This whiole thing is extremely fishy. I am not one for conspiracy theories, but this is beyond reason!

[macweenie]

Have you much experience with four year olds? Try getting one wound up and then putting the brakes on sometime, they don't get the whole impulse control thing.

I don't doubt for a minute this kid, in a pissed off fury, toddled into Dads closet and dragged out the shotgun to teach the sitter a lesson. The sitter should be thankful the kid wasn't a good shot.

[urgk]

It's like they say -- Guns don't kill people. People who buy guns kill people.

For all of the NRA's propaganda about training sessions, well-informed owners, etc., there are just enough idiots out there for gun ownership to be dangerous to the rest of us.

[SonofLiberty1]

I think you've hit the proverbial nail on the head here..
There are just enough idiots out there to make the world very ugly.

[RusStyles]

You guys can make jokes about this...But, this situation (loose regualtion) with guns is completely whacked. And we (America) are supposed to be the beacon of higher intelligence, democracy, laws, civility and all that other constitutional dogma...Right. America is behaving--more and more--like a third world, backward, banana republic. The pathetic upshot is the laissez-faire reaction to these escalating events. And before someone suggests I move to Rwanda or Darfur....I've travelled all over the world, and when I no longer have to take care of family memebers, I will moving to Canada and brave the freezing weather. They have their warts, but these folks are far more civilized...

[dphilip]

The sooner the better Rus...

[djgonebad]

I see Windsor every morning and it looks better and better.

[MalloMel]

"And we (America) are supposed to be the beacon of higher intelligence, democracy, laws, civility and all that other constitutional dogma..."

That's what we tell ourselves, but the rest of the world knows better.

[elizyum]

we canadians are definitely much more civilized. you can move to vancouver... similar weather to seattle! lots of rain, but less cold than montreal or toronto! we'll be waiting for you.

[RusStyles]

Elizyum:

Thanks for the welcoming words! Back in the day when I lived in LA, I used to party in Vancouver. Always had a great time...Beautiful city. Would move there in a heartbeat. Only thing...I heard real estate prices soared through the stratosphere..

[Indie2008]

I remember a well known person who moved his family to Canada and promptly became the victim of a mugger.

[vjoseph]

1 in a million chance, compare to 1 in 1000 chance. Yeah, Canada is quite dangerous
:rolleyes:

[SonofLiberty1]

Rus, I do hope you will stay though:)
What happens when so many good Americans leave (just like our jobs have) then those of us who can't leave have to face the idiots alone:(

Peace my friend:)

[kwalla101]

So much for leaving it to Beaver...

[derekc06]

no more gun control! i hate it when my four year olds can't kill anything!

[jmundstuk]

Just love the last line. "The child has not been charged."

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

The cops thought the kid's excuse was reasonable.

[DMSmith]

The question is have the parents been charged? THEY are the ones who left a loaded gun where a child could find it - or knew where it was.

That is SICK beyond belief. Lock them up!!

[postman606]

Four-year olds clinging to Sponge Bob and their shotguns.

[Buffyboy]

That was funny.

[Zenith1959]

Like others have mentioned, this sounds a little hokey to me. I suppose it is possible for a young kid to fire a shotgun, probably, "from the hip" as they say, but the kick from it is something I don't think a 4 year old could deal with.

[DMSmith]

Who said it was a shotgun? The article refers to a 'gun.'

[Zenith1959]

The article uses both terms, gun and shotgun, it's short, re-read it.

[mlaiuppa]

The NRA released a statement saying that had Nathan Beavers been armed, he could have defended himself by shooting his assailant.

[ReHoover51]

news just in ...
victim teenager breaks into the angry 4yr olds room and shoots him with a AK-47 killing most of his stuffed animals and wounding the tot ... no arrest due to NRA gun / revenge laws.

[partisanpolitico]

damn. you beat me to it.

[Stilts9]

Guns don't kill, four year olds do.

[raphaeljo]

lol....another NRA statement

[chevyval]

Wonder where the child bought the gun. Oh, I get it. It probably
belonged to one of his parents. No, a parent would leave a gun
unlocked in a house. Oh, I'm so confused.

[HumeSkeptic]

Likely NRA response: "The babysitter should have been armed".
.

[dphilip]

yeah with a homemade bomb maybe...You'd support that. right Hume?

[vjoseph]

Great response, not

[Stilts9]

LOL

[Vajara]

I agree with one of the comments that a 4 yr. old couldn't really do this. Perhaps he had some help. Did his parents teach him how to shoot? Perhaps the older kids there did it and blamed the poor 4 yr. old. It's all speculation, but hope we get the facts. If the kid did it, the NRA and media should hang their heads in shame for making guns so attractive to kids without offering extensive prevention and compreshensive safety and education programs.

[Ged2012]

America loves it guns as much as its cars. It is a country of ironies. Most NRA members are Republicans and most of them are PRO-LIFE, but they care much about their guns as much as they care for their own kids.

Guns are meant to kill people. Period.