Sean: 誤射

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Posted by Sean:
誤射
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   A doctor who [1]lives in Meguro Ward very close to where Atsushi and I
   used to live has several hunting rifles (which are tightly controlled
   but still legal in Japan). He came home around noon today with one and
   left it in the living room. He also left his two little boys
   unsupervised. You can probably guess what's coming.

     Dr. Tatematsu's younger son Naoki (2) was hit by a bullet in the
     lower abdomen and died approximately an hour after being
     transported to the hospital.
     The Meguro Police Department is conducting a thorough investigation
     of the circumstances of the shooting but believes it is possible
     that the elder Tatematsu boy (5) was nearby and picked up the gun,
     accidentally pulling the trigger.

   When my little brother and I played together, we probably spent a good
   30% of the time pretending to shoot each other. To little boys, any
   object that's vaguely long and narrow becomes a gun--never mind the
   super-cool real thing. (Of course, in these cases, there's always an
   outside chance that the truth will turn out to be more sinister, but
   lax supervision is certainly a plausible, if sad, explanation.)

References

   1. http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/main/20071209STXKA008809122007.html