This Would Have Been Perfect Except It Was The Wrong Finger
Okay, I have to admit that I read this headline on a story that Carl sent me totally wrong.
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I mean, shooting the finger is rarely accidental. It could happen, I guess, and that would surely make headlines but that wasn’t the case here.
It’s out of Minnesota where 66 year old Fred Peterson was showing his wife a new .38 special handgun.
Ole Fred, a firearms instructor, holstered the weapon, whereupon his wife asked if he could pull the trigger while the gun was holstered. Fred tried while he held the holstered gun in his left hand. Shot his damn finger, he did.
He explained, “The gun was pointed in a safe direction, but my finger was not in a good spot.”
It rarely is, Fred. It rarely is.
Petersen is an NRA-certified instructor for classes required to qualify for a Minnesota concealed-carry handgun permit, apparently a job that requires a double digit IQ. Kinda makes you wonder how Fred lived this long.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
As someone who pays more than 3/4 of my income for health insurance, I am really starting to resent the amount of money being spent on repairing body parts for members of the NRA that shoot themselves–they need to self insure and gunshot wounds only be covered by medicare if you are the victim of one of these idiots—he gets his hand fixed for “free” almost and bears no consequence for gun play—we get stuck for mega bucks for surgery
1I’m not very charitable about guns—cleaning the truck up where my uncle killed himself, being assaulted at gunpoint, the idiot cries of dont take our guns, arm the schoolkids are really starting to get to me
“The gun was pointed in a safe direction, but my finger was not in a good spot.”
So, if you shoot one of your digits, do you lose 1 I.Q. digit? (I personally vote for losing all of them)
2Guns are just way too tempting. You wanna kill a skunk that’s just standing there stamping his little feet and daring you, go with an 8 ft steel T post. Works every time. You don’t gotta buy bullets either.
3So the gun was perfectly well behaved, but his finger just stupidly got in the way. Poor, poor little gun. I bet its feelings were hurt.
4I agree with Elise. Guns are doing way more killing than protecting.
5Molly Ivins again, folks… (she’s always good for getting right to the point):
“”A well-regulated militia” surely implies both long training and long discipline. That is the least, the very least, that should be required of those who are permitted to have guns, because a gun is literally the power to kill. For years, I used to enjoy taunting my gun-nut friends about their psycho-sexual hang-ups – always in a spirit of good cheer, you understand. But letting the noisy minority in the National Rifle Association force us to allow this carnage
to continue is just plain insane.”
She wrote that in 1993. 20 years later, we still haven’t learned our lessons.
“When someone asks if I’m good with explosives, I hold up both hands and simply say ‘Ten!'”
6TalG, I’m delighted that when you hold up your two hands, you have ten digits to show! Bet Old Fred wishes that he did! And Marge, I wanna see you swing an 8 foot T-post. I doubt you can, but I love the image you put in my mind! And Elise, I hadn’t even thought about the concern that you expressed. Think I’ll start raving about the costs that gun lovers pass on to tax-payers!
7More like “a well-mutilated militia”.
8Elise Von Holton is on to something. I think we should start an on-line petition demanding that the NRA provide affordable life and/or injury insurance for their members and families.
They are all “responsible gun owners” right? So such insurance probably would be profitable for them, right?
How much is an NRA member’s life worth? Inquiring minds want to know.
9Brilliant.
10A new variation on the classic, “Pull my finger” trick.
11OldMayfly and Maryelle: My sentiments exactly!
12If you have a car, you need to have insurance in case you injure someone with it.
If you have a gun….
Of course if you have a car you also need to get a license to operate it by proving that you know the relevant laws and can demonstrate that you can use it safely. Any of that applied to gun ownership would be a big step forward (except for the funeral and hospital industries).
13Guns don’t shoot off fingers, dumbasses do.
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