A Cleveland man
was arrested after his 6-year-old daughter shot herself in the face, officials
in Ohio said.
Neveah Benson
was shot at about 1:45 p.m. Saturday, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported. She
was transported to a local hospital where she later died.
Neveah shot
herself, police said, but it was not clear how she got the
gun.
Her father,
Edmund Benson, 23, was arrested following the shooting on suspicion of child
endangering and having a gun after a felony conviction.
Benson is
prohibited from owning guns after felony convictions for receiving a stolen
vehicle and possessing criminal tools in 2009 and failure to register his
address when he lived in Shaker Heights in 2008. UPI
The U.S. debate
over gun control flared in mid-December when a man killed 20 first graders and
six adults in a matter of minutes at an elementary school in Newtown,
Connecticut, using an assault rifle. Reuters President Obama
on Wednesday formally proposed the most expansive gun-control policies in
generations and initiated 23 separate executive actions aimed at curbing what he
called “the epidemic of gun violence in this country.” The Washington
Post President
Obama's gun-control proposals amount to a war against the gun lobby that will be
met in kind, the National Rifle Association chief said. Business
Week Only 39 percent
of Americans think the new laws would stop gun violence, according to a poll
from CNN and TIME, compared to 61 percent who think it will continue.
Politico Hundreds of gun
owners and Second Amendment advocates rallied in state capitals nationwide
Saturday, days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of
federal gun-control proposals. AP Meanwhile,
Americans were angrier about last month's horrific school shooting in
Connecticut than they were about the Sep. 11 attacks, according to a new
Associated Press-GfK poll. AP
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