Fun With Guns: Gosh, I Hope It Was His Middle Finger Edition
Muskegon, Michigan –
A 72-year-old Muskegon gun collector shot a portion of his index finger off late last week while showing a Smith & Wesson to a friend, police said.
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The victim was sent to Mercy Health Partners for the wound. According to the report, the man told a deputy that he was embarrassed about the incident and felt “stupid” it happened.
In what possible way is this man a “victim”? You cannot make yourself a victim; somebody has to do that for you.
And, in more Old Farts With Guns News, there’s this chatty one —
A firearms instructor accidentally shot a student while teaching a gun-safety class on Saturday in Fairfield County to people seeking permits to carry concealed weapons.
Terry J. Dunlap Sr., who runs a shooting range and training center at 6995 Coonpath Rd. near Lancaster, was demonstrating a handgun when he fired a .38-caliber bullet that ricocheted off a desk and into student Michael Piemonte’s right arm.
Dunlap, 73, also is a long-time Violet Township trustee who is running for re-election in November.
Trustee? I don’t trust him. That, however, could just be me. There is a victim in this case and he said with amazing deductive skills —
Dunlap apparently didn’t know that the gun was loaded, Piemonte said — “That’s my guess.”
Your guess? You’re just guessing? You think there’s a possibility he did this on purpose to practice a couple of pool shots?
Thanks to Carl and Tom for the heads up.
Teachers who can’t teach! Reminds me of the time my teenage daughter was taking a special drivers ed course taught by a county cop. With the car loaded with kids (my daughter included) he ran the car into a telephone pole. Lifetime embarrassment or a teachable moment? You tell me! My daughter has never forgotten it.
1Sigh. I grew up just around the corner from the old fart on Coonpath Trail in Lancaster, Ohio. Trust me, if you picked up Fairfield County and dropped it in any state in the Old South, it would fit in without any problem. That part of Ohio is in Appalachia and has all of the insular, racist thinking that you would find in Louisiana or Mississippi.
I took off like a shot when I graduated and haven’t been back since. When I got my invitation to my 40th high school reunion there in the spring, I graciously declined, but wished I could have responded “Not merely no, but hell no!”
2no guessing when a gun is present
3Maggie–Unfortunately, I’d bet the “teachable moment” for the kids in the car became fodder for rollicking stories at the beer hall for the cop…
4I figure the same folks who kept saying about Bush, “Oh, isn’t he cute” when he was being non-President will say about this shooting teacher, “Well, boys will be boys.” or something like that. I mean, nobody got KILLED, gun toting has side effects. It’s the undecideds we have to find to discuss this with facts.
5It is amazing to me how many people are killed or wounded by “unloaded” guns. These idiots with guns need to start checking and double-checking first and not assume or “think” a gun is unloaded. Never trust an old fart showing off his gun, or his part to which the gun is an extension.
6Tell me more about how guns make us safer, and arming elementary school teachers is perfectly safe.
7June, there is no such thing as an unloaded fire arm. It is fire arm safety law #1: “Every gun is always loaded”
Amazingly while I learned it at age 8 in a YMCA camp, reinforced in Basic 12 years later, the NRA does not have it as a fire arm safety rule.
8Probably bad Karma from libs that make these guns load themselves and shoot innocent nutjobs. Remember the NRA’s motto-“abortions don’t kill people,people with guns kill people”.
9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R7IlTHaee8
Got this from a cousin last week. Shows hunter safety ala Dick Cheney. Gawd,I bet this hurts.
10djw, for the cop it was a matter of “whew!” cuz no one was hurt. The training course was very small so he could not get up enough speed to hurt anyone much less kill, for which I am grateful. Daughter has more than an ounce of caution now about anyone who claims he or she can teach whatever. With kids of her own now she has become an expert in checking out backgrounds of all the people who are or who could be teachers for her kids. Sound paranoid? Heck, when she got in that car she trusted that cop and so did the other kids. Her reaction is actually better safe than sorry.
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