Fun With Guns: And Dick Cheney Was Nowhere in Sight
This time it happened in Texas but only because it was our turn.
Because we always do things bigger in Texas, three people were filled with birdshot bad enough to be hospitalized.
The accidental discharge of a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with bird shot happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday, minutes before the show at the MPEC was set to open.
Police say it was a vendor, who show organizers say was a veteran at the gun shows and a Wichita Falls local.
The bird shot struck the hands, arms and neck areas of three MPEC employees working in the concessions area.
The victims weren’t even there to buy guns. They were there to make a few extra dollars.
“This is the first I’ve head of it,” said Officer Timothy Johnson with Wichita Falls Police Department. “The first I’ve seen something like this happen at a gun show.”
He just hopes this doesn’t put a stop to the Gun and Knife shows all together, especially because he said this not only brings education to gun owners and potential buyers, but also because it has a great economic impact.
From the way they are talking, you’d think this was the first gun show accident since ducks started going barefoot. Not true, dudes. It’s a real common happening. Y’all need more gun education, not gun buying.
They never explained how this happened and Lord knows it did not interrupt commerce.
The gun show will also be open Sunday from 10 a.m- 5p.m.
I guess nobody got accidentally knived.
I bet the hospital is glad for the extra business too!
1If you are going to be stupid with a shotgun, birdshot is better than buckshot. Being smart with a shotgun has apparently been ruled out.
2Aha, but if the concession employees had been armed, too, this would never have happened, because An Armed Society Is A Polite Society! At the least, they could have shot back and justified it as self defense.
Sounds like this police department is filled with the same helpful souls who claimed that campuses in TX would be safer if everyone was carrying. Much as I love you folks, and my mama’s family there, I am very glad I gave up my tenured faculty position there many years ago to migrate to institutions where disagreements are settled through committee meetings, even without the thrill that must ensue when Professor X and Dean Y not only despise each other but are both open-carrying.
3“He just hopes this doesn’t put a stop to the Gun and Knife shows all together, especially because he said this not only brings education to gun owners and potential buyers, but also because it has a great economic impact.”
These yahoos are certainly in need of some education about guns. Pity nobody was killed, because funeral homes and cemeteries could use the economic impact too, not just hospitals and ambulance crews.
4According to the NRA, more people are stricken with paper cuts inflicted by ninjas armed with paper cranes than by firearms. (Nobody has ever gotten a paper cut from a firearm!)
(/snark, if you didn’t guess)
5Forehead slap.
6Well, c’mon, y’all! He said “Ooops!”
Doesn’t that count for sumthin’?
7#HeadDesk
8Apologies for going off topic, but I couldn’t resist a Molly Ivins story. http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/david-giffey-molly-ivins-please-tell-us-if-donald-trump/article_d0a1e10b-ea35-5bdf-acbe-c3913fa50d2f.html
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