Fun With Guns: Hiney Edition
If going to Home Depot doesn’t make you manly enough, carry a weapon. You never know when a head boinking event will break out in the plumbing department and require an armed man to lay down the law.
On December 26, 2013, an unidentified man was checking out at a Home Depot, in Brighton, Michigan. When reaching for his wallet, he accidentally grabbed his gun instead. The gun went off in his pocket, shooting the man in the butt
Don’t you wish you would have been there?
Funny how that whole “guns make you safer” thing results in so many people needing to eat off the mantlepiece while healing.
And I don’t want to be anywhere near these people. I’ve seen how they drive, and I expect they’re even less capable of operating a firearm safely.
1Obviously, a shot to his brain.
2People who don’t carry loaded guns around get into the news less often because they have BRAINS.
I’m sure everyone else carrying a loaded gun around thinks this won’t happen to them. There’s a term for being too dumb to know how dumb you are, and if I were a bit smarter I’d remember it….
3Brighton, Michigan? Shucks! I used to go skiing there years ago. Nice people. Not armed. But now they have a Home Depot and wow! were they maybe having a sale that day? Half off if you shoot yourself on the way out?
4Are we really sure that wasn’t a cry for help? A threatened suicide? As Teh Gerg mentioned.
5Good thing he only mistook the gun for his wallet. If his cell phone had rung he could be in much worse shape.
6Well, the only good thing out of all of this was that it wasn’t in Texas. For a change 🙂
7In many jurisdictions it is illegal to discharge a firearm in the city limits or in a public place. But I never hear about these fools being charged with that crime.
Is my right to safety in a public place not equal to their right to keep and bear arms? When their thoughtless behavior endangers innocent people, it should be criminal, not constitutionally protected.
8Rhea, that reminds me of an Arrogant Worms song: History Is Made by Stupid People. I sing it to myself when surrounded by the stupid.
9Worst way to get out of a “Honeydo” list EVAH!
10He’s just lucky some other equally well-prepared patriot didn’t assume he was robbing the cashier and drop him like a bad bean pie.
11What a shame the gun and wallet weren’t in his front pocket. Natural selection. I love stories like that.
12@Ralph Wiggam. I looked this up, and now I am really scared:
CARELESS, RECKLESS, OR NEGLIGENT USE OF FIREARMS
Act 45 of 1952
AN ACT to prohibit the careless, reckless or negligent use of firearms and to provide penalties for the violation of this act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
History:1952, Act 45, Eff. Sept. 18, 1952.
The People of the State of Michigan enact: 752.861 Careless, reckless or negligent use of firearms; penalty.
Sec. 1. Any person who, because of carelessness, recklessness or negligence, but not wilfully or wantonly, shall cause or allow any firearm under his immediate control, to be discharged so as to kill or injure another person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 2 years, or by a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 1 year, in the discretion of the court.
History: 1952, Act 45, Eff. Sept. 18, 1952.
752.862 Careless, reckless or negligent use of firearms; injury of property; penalty .
Sec. 2. Any person who, because of carelessness, recklessness or negligence, but not wilfully or wantonly, shall cause or allow any firearm under his control to be discharged so as to destroy or injure the property of another, real or personal, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 90 days or by a fine of not more than $100.00, if the injury to such property shall not exceed the sum of $50.00, but in the event that such injury shall exceed
the sum of $50.00, then said offense shall be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 1 year or by a fine not exceeding $500.00.
History: 1952, Act 45, Eff. Sept. 18, 1952
SERIOUSLY? Kill or injure and its a misdemeanor? Even if you destroy property (did it leave a hole in the floor after it discharged his hiney?) you only get a misdemeanor!
13” There’s a term for being too dumb to know how dumb you are, and if I were a bit smarter I’d remember it….”
SKKKrotalMurKKKanPatriotiKKK* Frontism?
I’m with Ralph Wiggam on the public safety issue. If there is no citation issued and it turns out later that someone was hit by a stupidental discharge, then the issue becomes more difficult to adjudicate.
* Life member, Teabagistainian Nation.
14@rhea: I think the term you’re looking for is “Gohmert”
15What makes these “accidental” shootings so incredible is not that these people take their guns with them virtually everyplace, but they are loaded and the safety must be off for the guns to go off with so little impetus. We’re talking amoeba brains here, which lends absolute credence to Teh Greg’s comment.
16I looked into Texas State Penal Code. It is a Class A Misdemeanor to recklessly discharge a firearm “inside the corporate limits of a municipality having a population of 100,000 or more.” But in most of Texas it is just called Disorderly Conduct. Municipalities have their own rules.
Regarding the word “reckless” If you are carrying a round in the chamber, you are by definition, reckless.
17Oh my, yes I wish I could have seen that. And so we see, yet again, that it’s so important to be at the right place at the right time.
18No. No, JJ honey, I don’t wish I had been there. I’m getting the vapors just reading about it here in ice-covered Toronto. Delurking just long enough to wish all the patrons of the WMDBS a very happy new 2014 in Blue (Lord let it be) Texas!
19Sigh. I always miss all the fun.
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