Fun With Guns: Well Heck, It’s Worked For Everyone Else
I know that Houston is way down south and it takes a while for trends to get there, but a woman took this whole “accidentally shot” thing out for a test drive.
It’s 10:00 at night and the police get called to a house where they find a dead man with a shotgun blast to his chest along with his ex-girlfreind who was in the process of moving out because they had a fight that day.
Police said the woman was moving boxes and other items when a shotgun went off, wounding the man.
The woman also told police she was moving out due to an argument she had with her boyfriend earlier in the day.
I simply cannot tell you how many times my shotgun has discharged all on its own while I was picking up a box. And even with 360 degrees all around it, it always manages to find that 10 degrees that someone I just had a fight with occupies. Damnest thing you ever saw.
The police were apparently unimpressed with this act of God. They took her downtown for questioning.
Then there’s this.
Anyone with information in this case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division.
I dunno. I heard that Rice University has some pretty good physicists. Maybe they have information.
Thanks to Bobbie for the heads up.
Looks to me like them guns is out there figuring out a strategy er sumthin. Look how those two on the left is leanin’ toward each other. I’d be keerful if I wuz you. You cain’t trust ’em at all.
1Now I know that I come from a really rule-bound place, but bear with me! The only time I ever heard of a shotgun going off all by itself and hitting somebody was when it was left, unbroken, and fully loaded balanced on the tip end of its butt against a tree and it fell of its own weight. The trigger hit a knot and the damn thing went off. Now there was nothing mysterious about this. As a matter of fact it demonstrated a law of physics about how things that are in motion will remain in motion as long as they are damn well in motion. The obverse of this is is something just sits it will remain sitting as long as it sits. Whew!!!!
2If it was his gun and he left it sitting around loaded, he had it coming and it’s a good thing it killed him and not somebody else.
That’s if I buy her story. But there are a couple of ways his prints could have gotten on the trigger.
3The NRA keeps saying that “guns don’t kill people” – yet we keep seeing all these stories where someone was shot and killed by a gun, and no person was to blame.
Perhaps we’re living in Steven King’s “Maximum Overdrive”?
4I was waiting with baited breath to see if Rifleman McConnell’s gun would go off at CPAC, but disappointingly, it did not.
5Picture the chaos if it had and wounded, say,
Ted McCruz. Oh the humanity!
A big thank you to Tony for the “Ted McCruz”.
6She’s a female, so they took her for questioning. If her boyfriend had claimed the gun went off and shot her while she was moving out because he kicked her out for being a [string of things no momma would want in print) and he’d told her and told her to unload the damn shotgun before slamming it into a box…they’d believe him.
I had a friend who was in Family Law and said women were disbelieved by police more (whether as victim or as someone claiming self-defense) and ended up with stiffer sentences than men.
Now whether it was an accident…given the number of gun owners we’ve been reading about who shoot themselves out of (stupidity/carelessness), and the number who think guns just “go off”…I wouldn’t rule it out.
On the other hand, I don’t want to live next door to her.
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