Fun With Guns: Clean Up, Aisle Four Edition
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
An accidental shooting occurred at Lowe’s in Cheyenne at approximately 2:30PM Thursday. Cheyenne police say a 22-year-old woman was shot in the arm after a handgun fell out of the holster on a 58-year-old woman. Neither names have been released. The 22-year-old woman was transported to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, her status is unknown. Lowe’s remains open for business. The investigation is ongoing.
Holster? Crap. woman, don’t you have a damn purse? No, you gotta wear a holster. You know for a fact that it makes your butt look big.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
At least it is in Cheyenne, Wyoming. That’s supposed to be the Wild West.
1I hate to have to keep flogging dead horses,but,you don’t carry a handgun-revolver or pistol-with a round in the chamber,just in case it gets dropped then it won’t go off. Six-shooters are supposed to have one empty chamber to let the hammer rest on an empty chamber so it doesn’t go off. Pistols are supposed to leave the chambers empty until ready to shoot. Simple,fundamental rules that keep getting overlooked by nuts who believe the 2nd Amendment means no rules apply to them and their guns.NRA means no rules allowed.
2@EPO: You are quite correct. In the Old Days, the term ‘six beans in the wheel’ denoted a professional gunman, on the grounds that if his gun went off, it wouldn’t be by accident.
3These rwnj’s feel compelled to run their daily errands loaded for bear. Do they really live in fear of imminent attack, or are they the ones who are planning the attack?
4Take this 58 year old woman, was it fear that made her wear a loaded gun or hate….or just plain stooped.
Should have been stoopid, but my computer corrected the spelling all by its ownself.
5maryelle –
“Do they really live in fear of imminent attack”
Don’t forget, Dick ‘shoot in the face’ Cheney & dynasty live in Wyoming now.
6Oh gosh, do I have to remind everyone here what Ann Richards said about women carrying a loaded gun in a handbag? I know I would never find the damn thing in mine. My handbag tells the story of all my responsibilities: complete make up kit, coffee in a tin, hosiery in a plastic bag, a packet of 500 3 x 5 index cards, enough pens for all the kids in some impoverished village somewhere, a flashlight . . . you get the picture.
7Dear Maggie: I sure the heck do!! And I would shoot myself diving for a maintenance device I needed (outlawed in the Capitol assembly Chambers doncha know!) if I stuffed a gun in there too!
So I no longer have a handbag, and I have two long barreled guns: a .22 rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun. The only shooting I do is deliberate!
8just before Christmas, with fambly in Conroe, I questioned a nephew about why his bro wears a semi-automatic in and to whatever he does during the day, except possibly where prohibited by a 30.06 sign. He says “Cause it’s his right.” Oh. So for some we are down to “cause I can.” Good. Logical. No problema there!
9Maybe with his borrowed heart the Dickster will stop shooting friends in the face and just administer a kindly load of buckshot to their posterior.
New Rule: Guns and money must be kept in separate identifiable to oneself areas of the body, and no rounds will be chambered, until after sundown. Holy Gohmertz, the middle of the afternoon at the local hardware store in WY is hardly cause to fear the need to protect oneself, except from “lawful” gun nuts.
If the dissent is all about rights, the sales of protective clothing should exceed gun sales. Reminder to self, next time buying lumber or supplies, wear what I would wear to to save the family jewels from a high inside fast ball.
10Can you say ‘lawsuit’ boys and girls?
11Corinne Sabo, we can say lawsuit, but can we say it as fast as the generally too stupid to serve on a jury, but do, can say ‘jury nullification?’ After the Dickster was never investigated, much less charged and George for X-sakes he wore a hoodie Zimmerman, all bets are off that gun dropping moron will be either charged or otherwise held accountable.
12My holster (yes, I have one, in “tactical” nylon no less) has this neat little strap thing that you fasten so that when you’re scrambling up the side of a gully (such as, after setting up your pile of tin cans there for plinking) your piece cannot possibly fall out. Even if snagged by a vine, weed, seedling juniper, etc. That, plus not having a round in the chamber, means I won’t shoot myself if I slip and skid a few feet, or even fall smack down.
If a firearm “falls out” of a holster, it wasn’t in right in the first place, and the safety strap (which most have) has either been taken off or not used.
The “Because he can” argument is easily countered when boys are young with “Yes, and you can walk around with a pencil sticking out of your nose, too, but you’ll look stupid that way and hurt yourself if someone bumps into it.” Later on, when boys haven’t learned that “because I can” isn’t a good reason for anything they do, like climbing the water tower and peeing off the top, or deciding to try riding the neighbor’s bad bull, only actual consequences can teach them anything. “Because I can” needs to be nipped in the bud the moment it shows up.
13There is only one vowel difference between Cheyenne,Wyoming and Cheney in Wyoming. Scary ain’t it?
14Maggie,if memory serves,according to Molly the Wise that statement was one reason Ann lost to dumb bass dubya. She offended Karl Rove and he convinced wingnuts they were offended.
15@Elizabeth
16I always heard nylon rubs off the blue.
OK, I’m confused.
17Isn’t Lowe’s the “blue” store? Given her politics, shouldn’t the lady have been shopping at Home Depot?
fierywoman, the “reason” of crazy says a good gun toting woman would never shop at Home Depot, it’s too close to homo-depot. Trying to subscribe an element of reason to the 2nd Amendment gun toting dangerous to all in near proximity of nuts wielding weaponry of which they bear no responsibility, “they have their rights,” and screw any sense of responsibility.
“It was an accident.” Forget that it was a stupid and avoidable accident, they know their tights and could give a lousy Gohmert about responsibility. Yeah, the Yea Bags and GOP, parties of “personable responsibility.” What a load of Gohmertz!
18Responsibility? What? Huh? They don’t need no stoopid responsibility — they got the 2nd Amendment. I still hope the injured lady sues.
19Fun with guns in upstate New York, coming next Saturday:
20http://liquiddaddy.blogspot.com/
Accidental discharges,and they happen quite often,are actionable in all 51 states and D of C.
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