Fun With Guns: But What If They Hadn’t Been Drunk? Edition
Okay, way to go Georgia!
At 3:00 am on Sunday morning, a fight broke out at a sports bar in Meriwether County.
Sheriff Chuck Smith got a report of trouble and found this …
According to Smith, there was gambling around a pool table that led to an argument.
Smith told Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen multiple people pulled pistols and began shooting injuring 11.
The sheriff’s department have no suspects in custody.
Think about that for a minute. They are standing around a pool table and because it is, after all, Georgia, everybody has a gun. Eleven people were shot but no one was killed. That’s some kind of Southern Boy record. I hope their families are depending on deer season to eat.
When I first learned to hunt, my grandpa would tease me and say that I couldn’t hit the side of a barn … even if I shot from inside the barn. But hell, even I could shoot across a pool table.
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
And according to the story no balls were shot. Or penises.
1Aw, nuts!
2@JAKvirginia … maybe a pool ball or two got zinged!!
It would seem that everyone inside the establishment would be a suspect!!
3I guess you meant you were hoping their families weren’t depending on deer season. The deer will possibly laugh themselves to death however.
4“no suspects in custody” 11 injured and nobody broke the law? Criminal defense lawyers must be going out of business in that town.
5And in related news:
Gentleman Discharges Gun In Pants, Goes To Emergency Room Half-Cocked
http://wonkette.com/594324/gentleman-discharges-gun-in-pants-goes-to-emergency-room-half-cocked
Gotta be the best headline on that story.
6I’m pretty sure as long as they were all white, using a gun is not a crime. Some where like Georgia, several were probably also related to the sheriff. They know who was involved, they just ain’t gunna do nothin’.
7I have to wonder how many of them ended up shooting themselves. Could be all 11.
8Wyatt Earp is turning in his grave. Even in the wild, wild West, there were rules – and no one got to carry a gun wherever they went, unless you were a lawman.
9Bars in iowa close at 2 AM and I don’t think you are allowed to carry in bars,let alone gamble.
10A wondering if laughing at these ammosexual dramas will have my pacifist merit badge revoked.
A man shot himself in the groin after seeing imaginary Mexicans in trees.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/wa-man-shoots-self-in-scrotum-while-fighting-off-meth-hallucinations-of-mexicans-in-trees/
11@Susan
Worry not about your pacifist merit badge. We will dog ear one corner of the official Dem club card however.
12Maybe they were all aiming for the other guys brain and could not hit that small of a target.
13JJ, as a journalist you might be familiar with the true crime book, “Murder in Coweta County.” Years ago there was a tv movie of the book staring Johnny Cash as the sheriff of Coweta County. The plot, in a nutshell, is that a poor white sharecropper in neighboring Merriweather County was in a dispute with his prosperous landlord. I think this was in the 1940s. The sharecropper was murdered by the landlord. The resulting trial was notable because it was the first time in GA that the testimony of a black man against a white man resulted in a murder conviction.
14So many Darwin Awards, so little time.
15Up close and personal? And no arrests? That is one patch of Georgia where there is overwhelming lack of diversification, if ya know what I mean!
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