Trump surgeon general pick involved in gun accident that killed her father at age 13

Nominee Dr Janette Nesheiwat knocked over gun in 1990, causing it to fire and fatally shoot father in the head

Nominee Dr Janette Nesheiwat knocked over gun in 1990, causing it to fire and fatally shoot father in the head

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Trump surgeon general pick involved in gun accident aged 13 that killed her father

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“I was in Father’s bedroom at about 7.15am getting some scissors” out of a fishing tackle box on a shelf above her dad’s bed, she said, according to a police report reviewed by the New York Times. “I opened the … box and the whole thing tipped over”, causing a handgun to fall from inside, discharge and strike her father in the head as he slept in the bed.
If that's what happened, Father was a dumbass, storing a non-drop-safe firearm with a round in the chamber.
- that sounds like the most made-up alibi ever pronounced
  
  Who's actually going to sleep under a tackle box?

That’s concerning. I’m not sure it’s scandalous enough to qualify her.
- Yeah unless this was on purpose I don't see how we can justify calling her a republican candidate for a seat of power.
- She was 13 years old.
  Not enough to disqualify someone over a traumatic event from her childhood. Chances are she's unqualified for other reasons.

The puppy killer wasn't good enough, we need someone with the balls to take out a parent!

Oh no! Trump can't have Someone who HASNT had Sexual Relations with a CHILD in His Cabinet!

Honestly, that seems like it may make her more inclined to push for reasonable restrictions on firearms, if anything.
I know nothing about her yet, but if I accidentally knocked over a gun and killed one of my parents, I might be a little bit pro-regulation, lol.
Not a bad trait for a Surgeon General if so.

That is hilarious. So American. Also it's the sort of story that sounds like it could be covering for an actual murder
- Indeed. Especially since most firearms are, and have been, drop safe for decades. The exceptions to that are notable enough that they've usually resulted in lawsuits against the companies for unsafe firearms. Sig Sauer recently lost such a case over their P320 line of handguns (said guns, often used by police departments, have gone off with no user input or without being dropped), and Remington lost a large case over their 700-series rifles (again, some of them went off without being touched), and ended up going bankrupt as a result.

Seems like an odd thing to write a headline about, but also, the gun aside, what kind of a maniac keeps a fishing tackle box on a shelf above their bed?!

They're a Trump nominee, so they're probably shitty for one reason or another, but this just seems completely irrelevant.

This seems pretty low key to most the picks.. I mean I don't know if she has any skills for the job, but this back story is a lot less worry some that most the picks.
- I don't know if she has any skills for the job,
  I'm pretty sure the minimum requirements for trump cabinet is that you have absolutely zero qualifications for the job and it's highly preferred if you have publicly shown contempt for the job/agency it heads

Crazy that he was a dad at age 13
/srs this is an awful story, and I'm sure she's going to be awful at her job for some reason or another since trump picked her, but what on earth does particular story have to do with her ability to do her job?