Fun With Guns: Candidate Challenges Self to Duel. Loses.
Indiana.
Local police chief David Counceller is running for Fayette County sheriff. He’s a Republican so his campaign kick-off included a trip to the gun store.
Counceller’s 40-caliber Glock handgun accidentally discharged Saturday afternoon while he was at Wullf’s Gun Shop. Counceller, who was off-duty at the time, said he’d been examining a handgun similar to the one he carries.
Counceller said he drove himself to the hospital for treatment of the flesh wound on his upper, right thigh. Nurses thought the chief was joking when he told them he’d shot himself, Counceller said.
This is an unusual happenstance. Republicans usually shoot themselves in the foot.
Thanks to BJ and Cheryl for the heads up.
Now there’s a ringing endorsement for the candidate for sherriff. “He’ll shoot anybody, including hisself.” It’ll probably get him elected out thar in Indiana.
1Sometimes there is no fun at all to report. According to the morning papers, Steven Fromholz, singer, song writer and poet, died after accidentally shooting himself while removing a rifle from a gun bag. Why was the rifle put up, loaded? What a sad, horrible waste.
It was once my privilege to join Fromholz and Jim Hightower on a campaign train ride when Hightower ran for railroad commissioner. Anyone not acquainted with Fromholz should listen to his Texas Trilogy.
Rest in peace, good buddy.
2Uncle Dave, none of these reports that JJ carries are meant as high or low comedy. They are the every day proof that gun safety doesn’t mean squat in this country, no matter how experienced you are or aren’t. Sad, horrible waste. Yes. All of them.
3I think we could save about 10,000 lives a year and countless more injuries if we just implemented the following Second-Amendment-friendly federal legislation:
Whereas guns don’t kill people, bullets do and
Whereas bullets not in guns rarely kill anyone and
Whereas the Second Amendment extols and enshrines the right to bear arms but not the right to use them
Therefore be it resolved that gun owners may bear their guns AND their bullets, so long as they are borne separately and
Therefore it is further resolved that the name of this act shall be the Deputy Bernard P Milton Oliver Fife Memorial Bullet in Your Pocket Act.
4According to TPM “It turns out Counceller had accidentally shot himself once before, 15 years ago.” That crime usually has a low recidivism rate.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/indiana-police-chief-accidentally-shoots-himself-at-gun-shop
5Seems to me it’s happening real regularly. Maybe they oughta be more worried about whether or not the gun and/or bullets were made from recycled radioactive metal. I am serious. I thought this was at first a joke about the DOE but the DOE in the US and other countries are recycling radioactive metals to be used in manufacturing household goods, and for some folks, I guess household goods would include guns. I feel icky. Feel free to research it. One guy with a dump noticed that some of his scrap metal glowed in the dark at night. And as far back as 1996, those huge radiactive bullets were used in the Army. I’ll leave more research to y’all, like who’s getting rich from recycling radioactive metals.
6Maggie, I do understand that, and regularly chuckle and shake my head at the dumb gun risks some folks take, but Fromholz was someone a lot of old Texas progressives knew, and it seemed important to share.
7There are no accidental discharges or negligent ones, especially with Glocks. He pulled the trigger because he’s an irresponsible gun owner like most of them.
8Um, I thought peace officers needed to demonstrate competency with weapons. This guy seems to have IN-competency nailed! Twice, he has now shot hisownself? Good grief!
9even in the bad ole days of veetnam a second self-inflicted gunshot wound just about 99.999% guaranteed separation from the US military, without a lot of questions being asked. Even though they needed cannon fodder in the worst way, their single minded concentration on shooting away from our guys, which included you, and toward the other guys precluded them from forgiving you shooting yourself a second time.
10Damn! I am saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Fromholz. Met him back in the late 60s when he was just starting out. The first album was in the can then but not yet released. After all these years the Texas Trilogy and The Man with the Big Hat still move me. That album was the first that I digitized to put on the computer.
“The train just don’t stop here anymore!”
11Yesterday my wife and I and two granddaughters were riding a commuter train into Chicago and I happened to pick up a copy of Metra’s latest newsletter. With Illinois about to issue Concealed Carry Permits, a newsletter article reminded riders that the new state law forbids riders from carrying firearms aboard public transit.
Law … shmaw. When CC permits become effective in a few months, I’ll bet we won’t have to wait long before some nimrod has a gun accident on the train. The cars are always packed during rush hours, and riders will surely be running a greater risk of injury or death as people brush by each other or are jostled by train movements. Even with road rage on the expressways, we may be safer driving the kids into town from then on.
12So the police chief shot himself, for the second time, in the “upper thigh.” Here’s hoping that’s a euphemism and he’s actually taken himself out of the breeding population. It would be our tough luck if he’s already bred.
Sorry about the death of Steven Fromholz, though. Didn’t know of him but he sounds like good people.
13Awesome title JJ!
14Sheriff Jim Fluornoy must be turning over in his grave.
15“This is an unusual happenstance. Republicans usually shoot themselves in the foot.” Well, yeah. . .when they’re not shootin’ someone else!
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