‘My 4-year-old gets jacked up to target shoot’ mom brags hours before he shoots her

Hours after gun-rights advocate Jamie Gilt bragged on Facebook that her 4-year-old son “gets jacked up to target shoot,” the same child accidentally turned his mother into a target, shooting her in the back.

The 31-year-old Jacksonville woman was driving down a road in Putnam County, Fla., on Tuesday when her son managed to get hold of a gun while he was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, according to a statement released by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department.

Officials told the Florida Times-Union that the child fired a .45-caliber handgun that he found on the truck’s floor into the driver’s seat.

“She was shot through the seat and the round went through her back,” Sheriff’s Capt. Joseph Wells told the Times-Union. “There was a booster seat in the back of the vehicle, but, however, the boy was not strapped in when the deputy got to them.”

Jamie Gilt bragged about how her son gets "pumped" about guns ... Her 4 yr old shot her in the back. * sigh *

Gilt — who was towing a horse trailer when the incident occurred — was on her way to a relative’s home to pick up a horse, police said.

Her vehicle was spotted by a sheriff’s deputy who was driving by and noticed Gilt in the driver’s seat “motioning to him as if she needed assistance,” according to police. After approaching the vehicle, the deputy realized that Gilt had been shot.

“The deputy provided first aid until the arrival of paramedics,” the statement said. “The victim was transported to University of Florida Health in Gainesville and was last reported to be in stable condition. The only other occupant of the vehicle was the victim’s 4-year-old son, who was unharmed.”

Before she went into the emergency room, the statement notes, Gilt told police that she’d been shot by her son.
The boy was returned to his family, who met with members of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Victim Services Specialists, police said. The Florida Department of Children and Family Services was also notified, and police are investigating how the child got hold of the gun and whether the incident warrants criminal charges.

Under Florida law, “it a misdemeanor for a person to store or leave, on a premise under his or her control, a loaded firearm in such a manner that it is likely a child can gain access to the firearm.”

“Those questions center around how is the firearm secured?” Wells told WJXT. “Where was it carried in the vehicle? And exactly how did the young boy come in possession of the firearm?”

A woman answering the telephone at Gilt’s home refused to comment and hung up.

Gilt’s social media presence is filled with pro-gun messages, Second Amendment memes and posts supporting the NRA, as well as photos of her posing with weapons.

She appears to maintain a Facebook page called “Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense,” which has since been inundated by people criticizing her passion for weapons in light of being shot by her son.

The page includes numerous posts asserting that the government plans to confiscate American citizens’ weapons.
Last year, Gilt shared a photo of a gun on Twitter that she described as her “new toy.”

jamie gilt ‏@jamiegilt
Got to play with my new toy today! Time to clean it!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/09/my-4-year-old-gets-jacked-up-to-target-shoot-gun-loving-mom-brags-hours-before-her-little-boy-shoots-her/?tid=sm_tw

As of December 23, a total of 12,942 people had been killed in the United States in 2015 in a gun homicide, unintentional shooting, or murder/suicide.

http://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/gun-violence-stats-2015/


According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit website that scours more than 1,200 sources to track gun deaths and injuries in the United States, there have been more than 50,000 incidents of gun violence in 2015.
The numbers include everything from homicides and multiple-victim gang assaults to incidents of self-defense and accidental shootings. The organization’s records show that more than 12,000 people have been killed with guns this year, but what its numbers do not record — due to government reporting practices — is a massive hole in the data: the nearly 20,000 Americans who end their lives with a gun each year. Nor does its already high injury tally capture the full extent of the victims who continue life with debilitating wounds and crushing medical bills. When the federal statistics for 2015 are released two years from now, the government’s models will show tens of thousands more gun-related injuries.

eddie wrote:http://www.newsfixboard.com/t14245-why-anerica-s-gun-problem-is-so-unique

Lord Foul wrote:the suicide stats are a bit of a red herring though

suicide rates in america are about 11 per 100,000 of population

ours is about 12 per 100,000 and we have some of the strictest gun laws foing

The folks that took their own lives with a gun would only find a diferent way...

they are NOT relevant in the dicusiion of gun deaths as such...

HoratioTarr wrote:There's something evil about giving a gun to a child.    Guns are created to kill, no other reason.   They're weapons.  This woman is an unfit mother.