Terrible accident shows danger of guns
TONY Calvisi, the grandfather of a five-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in the face at his Cottonvale home, said gun owners might think they’re being safe, but it only takes one terrible accident to prove you wrong.
“This sort of thing will never leave you,” Mr Calvisi said.
“Every time you pick up a gun now you’ll just be thinking of everything.”
At 4pm last Tuesday, January 2, five-year-old Cameron Calvisi was accidentally shot in the face with a rifle by his 12-year-old cousin when the two boys were playing in the shed.
The incident left the entire community wondering how something like this could happen.
“When you’re using (guns) constantly you tend not to put them away,” Mr Calvisi said.
“Make sure (your guns) are in a really safe place, because we thought that then, and now…”
Mr Calvisi said the .22 rifle was left unloaded in the back of a ute, where the two boys must have found it.
“I don’t know who loaded the gun,” Mr Calvisi said.
“Never in a million years did we think anything like this would happen out here.”
Mr Calvisi said many people commenting on the incident didn’t know what it was like on a property.
“Bats and parrots can come and destroy your entire crop in a matter of seconds, causing thousands of dollars of damage,” he said.
“We don’t use guns that much except in the season.”
Cameron is currently in the spinal ward of Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Hospital and is awaiting a third round of surgery to remove a bullet that lies 1mm from his spinal cord.