Fun With Guns: Mansplaining Safety Edition
If there’s one thing you need to be really afraid of, it’s men explaining manly things.
A guy arrives bleeding at a hospital in Grovetown, Georgia.
The man told police he was attempting to show his wife how the safety worked on his Sig Saur P238. According to police reports, the man stated the bullet entered the palm of his left hand and exited the back of his hand. He then said his wife took him to the hospital.
I am willing to make a large bet that, “Stoopid sumbitch!” was uttered more than once on the way to the hospital.
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
Here’s my first poorly formed thought about this.
Every insurance company in america including the ones that cover medicare and medicaid should utterly stop covering gunshot wounds until a police report, witness statements, and the the victim statement are matched up and read by insurance adjusters. If the insurance adjuster decides the majority of fault is that of the victim, then the insurance company should deny the claim and jack up the victim’s rates because clearly this guntoter is careless with his/her firearms.
1This should automatically disqualify this fool for possession of a firearm for at least a year. If at the end of that time his wife is willing to allow him to re-arm himself, he must take and pass a firearms safety course and demonstrate safe handling of said firearm to a qualified instructor.
2Sorry, but does this remind anyone else of Appalachian Emergency Room? If this doesn’t ring a bell, then Google that. It was a series of skits on Saturday Night Live from when Seth Meyers was on, and Nbc’s site has several available. Classic.
3“Well, I certainly see why they call it a safety. Now, hold your hand UP, dear, and try not to bleed on the upholstery.”
4Harumph …. Georgia!! 🙁
5You know, when I was growing up in Georgia, folks who owned guns generally knew how they worked, and the result of that knowledge was often served at meals.
As for myself, I received small arms training from my dad, army reservist and decorated WW II veteran. My first beau taught me the finer points of hunting rifles…not that I’ve needed either set of skills since then.
Now any fool (make that, “it’s mostly fools”) own them and the world is NOT a safer place. I do find myself wishing this took more of them out of the gene pool, but I’m aware that is an ungenerous thought.
6Georgia and not FL. AZ. or TX. I’ll be damned. Oh that’s right probably a Drump voter.
7Micr and WA Skeptic both have very good ideas here. Neither of which has a hope in hell of becoming law or insurance policy. The rest of us will continue to pay for these morons, and that’s not called socialism. “From each according to their stupidity, to each according to their pathetic needs.”
8Guy shoots self with gun ignoring all rules of gun safety: Accident.
Woman gets pregnant ignoring all rules of safer sex: Careless Slut.
Okaaaaayyyy. I think I’m getting RWNJ “logic”. (Not accepting it, mind you, just getting it.)
9A Sig Saur P anything? Really? Where the hell does this guy really think he is? Fallujah? So much for the tourist beauties of that state!
10@Maggie
without condescension or mansplaining …
A P238 is a caliber .380 resembling the Colt caliber .45 1911. It is compact for concealed carry and would fool the uninitiated into thinking it is a mini-1911. Ftr, the caliber 380 is not a military round and the P238 is fed by a single stack magazine of 6 or 7 rounds. Short of an outright ban of handguns, the P238 passes muster vis a vis magazine capacity etc
That said, of course its mission is to kill a human being.
11I’m glad the woman knew where the ER was.
12No accident, negligent stupidity.
13I used to be a pilot. I took a course, passed a written exam, received flight instruction, took an oral exam, got a medical certificate, passed a flight exam (check ride) for the FAA, and got a license. To fly a plane with retracting landing gear, a “complex aircraft,” I needed more training, more exams. Ditto with instruments. If I wanted to fly, say, a Gulfstream, which I cannot, I would need to be “type rated” in that particular aircraft. Public safety seems to be more important than my childish whim to fly an airplane. Yet I have a constitutional right to travel, just as I have a constitutional right to bear arms. Would it be so unreasonable to say the the Second Amendment gives the right to bear a revolver or a break over or pump shotgun, but if you wanted a “complex firearm” like a semi auto you needed trading and an exam? Like my written oral and practical exams to be a pilot? How about a type rating for things like AR’s? As a gun owner, I believe our choices are regulate or we will be disarmed because of morons like this guy. Sorry about the long post. BTW, the moron is right-handed.
14JAKvirginia, your point about RWNJ logic (?) is on the nose.
Henry, your comparison makes perfect sense. Therefore, with the current tea bagger dominated Congress, it will Never Happen. They only do Stupid.
15Did this clown have insurance or are his hospital charges passed onto *our* insurance?
MICR has a wonderful idea.
16Henry, you pretty much explained how I understand the Canadian gun laws work.
As to gunshot injuries and insurance, sounds like free market capitalism, lets do it.
My addition to the gun mis-use, debate: investigate and if necessary hold the last idetifiable legal owner of any firearm resposible. If his name is mr Colt or misters Smith or Wesson, then they were careless with deadly instruments, I am sure these gentlemen will start keeping better track of their adult toys. How many wounded military folks got a bill for their missplaced weapon?
17Henry: Agree with all you’ve said. 2nd Amendment says you have the right to KEEP and BEAR, not a right to USE. To do that you should prove you will use it safely and correctly. If it keeps you from owning a particular weapon… good. If you don’t care enough to learn about that weapon maybe you shouldn’t have it. Just sayin’.
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