Fun With Guns: Proof That Shooting Self in Foot Is Contagious Edition
Here’s how you know that shooting yourself in the foot is contagious.
This is an absolute honest to God true story but you won’t believe it because the big time media just totally ignored it. You can see part of it by clicking here. But, you have to pay to see more, so I’ll make it easy for you.
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Did you notice that the guy was a Marine General? Hey, at least he didn’t shoot his friend in the face. That’s a step in the right direction for the Bush administration!
Thanks to Vickie for the heads up.
I was once proud to be an Aggie.
1Um, well so much for Friday the 13th. I wonder how they will mark the anniversary of this fox paw next year!
2there is absolutely no excuse for this. every marine, from the commandant on down to the lowliest private, has an annual firing range qualification requirement, which includes gun safety training. my dad did this every year, regardless of what his day-to-day MOS was. in fact, these were the only times I ever saw him with a rifle, which he had to bring home with him, because it was signed out to him until the end of the event, when he would turn it back in. damn M-14 was a beast.
3I WILL NOT . . . no, I WILL NOT . . . make any jokes about Jarheads and Aggies. Still, the jokes write themselves.
4Who says old age doesn’t make us stupid? At least I can’t shot myself as I don’t have a gun! If a retired Marine General can do, I understand why others can do so also 🙂 Some lessons are more painful than other for sure.
5How is it that a nacilbupeR shooting himself in the foot missed his head?
“When you mess with a weapon, you have to pay attention and be very careful.” OK, humor me. What was his point there?
6Sorry, I am inclined to believe that these negligent morons are drunk or stoned when they “clean or clear” their guns. Could they really be that stupid not to unload the thing?
7Was the Subaru OK?
8Rick, the Subaru will be enjoying a brief recuperation period, while numbnuts heals. She was grateful that is was merely the floorboard this time and not her transmission.
9There are only intentional discharges and negligent discharges. I am disappointed that this Marine, who probably could recite Gen Rupertus’ Creed word for word backwards, so screwed the pooch and negligently discharged his handgun, winging hisownself and endangering his Subaru. How bad is the ‘hood in which the Perrys now reside?
10Thanks PKM –
11Hopefully the General gets Kevlar floor mats next time.
If I lived next door to Rick Perry, I’d be packing too.
12Well the shooting part is pretty fun as usual, but the article states that this fellow was appointed to a state job in 2014 and retired from it in 2015. Does this sort of thing make any sense. Did he “retire” on the taxpayer’s dole or what? Was he unaware of his age when he took the job and thus unaware that he was going to “retire” in less then a year? Are we missing something here?
13I need to retire pretty soon. Can I get me one o’them jobs?
That is one Marine General we don’t need on “that” wall or any other. Being it’s Texas I’m a bit surprised he didn’t amputate his foot with a Bowie knife and stuff it and mount it on the wall of his study.
Maybe Teddy child molestor could grill it for him. Next time challenge him to shoot his foot while it is stuck in his mouth.
14e platypus onion, you’re a wily prosecutor. This was obviously an act of premeditation given that old Joe had time to remove his foot from his mouth before shooting it.
Wrap both of their feet in bacon, then let them challenge each other to a draw down. Or, send them hunting with Dick Cheney.
15“How is it that a nacilbupeR shooting himself in the foot missed his head?”
PKM, he’d have to shoot himself in the ass to hit his head.
“The weapon fired…” And they keep telling us guns don’t kill people. An awful lot of them seem to fire themselves.
16@EPO
Probably been a while since Gen Weber was on a wall. Not besmirching the man’s 36 year career, doing it right at least 70% of the time. But he negligently discharged his handgun. An “oh gosh” doesnt do it. Never having done it is the minimum standard. Does he have a concealed carry license?
17I am appalled that a retired Marine violated everything the Marines teach about handling weapons, not to mention everything my mother taught me about handling weapons.
And that the report says “the weapon fired.” Like Weber had nothing to do with it. Weapons require some impetus to “fire”. GRUMP.
18I suppose that there will be no charges filed or guns confiscated.
19I wonder if he knows he’s driving a “Lesbaru?” You know, General, Subaru Outbacks and Foresters are heavily favored by lesbians. Subaru has long done targeted ads for lesbian and gay buyers, and has gained recognition for “gay-coded” ad campaigns and sponsored gay businesses. According to Subaru’s research, lesbians are “four times as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to own a Subaru.” How ’bout that big guy?
I may be projecting, but I have to think that knowledge would make him uncomfortable, possibly more so than a bullet through the foot.
20“I shouldn’t have been sitting in the car while I cleared the weapon,” Weber [a retired Marine general] said . . . .
Proving once again that the “Can you hold the gun? OK, you passed,” form of “firearms training” that most people receive isn’t NEARLY enough. This guy had the best training money can buy and look what he did. Then look again.
Lucky, he said. Yep, I would say so. Cars [like the one he was sitting in when he shot himself] have large containers filled with gasoline in them. He was very, very, very lucky that all he shot was his foot.
21I’m not used to big Texas things,but if this dimdot lived next door to Perry,why did he need to drive to Perry’s unless he planned to shoot his foot all along? Bewildered and curious onion would like to know.
22two crows- I am the proud owner of a Jeep that was recalled because of gas tank problems similar to the Frod Pinto had. Rear end collisions tend to shove the trailer hitch through the gas tank and make messy explosions.
Long story short-Chrysler spent years whining about the cost and finally struck a deal to fix the problem. My old Jeep got a spanking new trailer hitch mounted right where the old one was and I still have the messy explosion problem as before. It didn’t cost me nothing so there is that.
23Rhea, never underestimate the snacilbupeR when it comes to twisting themselves into pretzel logic and st00pid. For them a shot to the head, ass, and foot is merely routine thanks to the coincidence of collocation.
Myrnatoo, thank you for the good news. When can we expect the emigration of snacilbupeR due to being the “Lesbaru” state?
24@Oldymoldy
Ricks entire tenure in the historically figurehead position as Texas governor was spent appointing old friends to state jobs. He even used it to cover up giving someone the death penalty by firing a medical examiner that had proof of innocence and putting a buddy in his place that ignored the evidence.
I’m a little surprised this moron “general” didn’t claim a (insert minority scapegoat here) shot him. Good for him to at least owning up.
Have you noticed the people who refuse to allow any sort of gun safety measures to be set are the ones that would most benefit from them?
25Four basic rules drummed into every boot-marine’s head from Day 1!
1. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
262. Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
3. Keep finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Keep weapon on safe until you intend to fire.
e platypus onion, there are many reasons he might have been parked in the Perry’s drive, though living next door. A) His wife had been visiting with Anita Perry, and he stopped by to pick her up before they went somewhere. B) The Webers and Mrs. Perry may have been somewhere and he was there to drop her off (a courteous gesture) before driving on home. C) He had been somewhere, saw his wife chatting with Mrs. Perry, and stopped to offer his wife a lift. Or maybe, D), Real Generals Don’t Walk Anywhere. Many in the TX-GOP seem to think that anyone who walks anywhere, or uses public transportation, is a suspicious character unless it’s your own maintenance person.
He got bored listening to the women chat (TX GOP men can’t stand to listen to women talk) and decided to clear his weapon to clear his head of the noise.
27So I looked up some more online (procrastinating from today’s work) and found that Perry lives a few miles (“few” in Texas means w/in hour’s drive) outside of Round Top, in Fayette County. He has ten acres and a six bedroom house on a rise overlooking fields & pastures. Now with ten acres, you can place your house far enough back from the road that it’s an inconvenient walk out to the mailbox, and “neighbor” means anyone on the same RFD route, or anyone between you and town. This is not a suburb with “ranchettes of a half acre where you can walk across the lawn from house to house. So a neighbor driving to your place rather than walking would be common.
Round Top was a little town with a population under 100 until a couple of developer types got busy with it. It swelled up with an antiques market every year, and it had pretensions of culture with the Round Top classical music festival. People would drive out from Austin (and could drive home after) or from Houston (and stay in a B&B.)
Now the area around is being cut up into 5 to 10 acre tracts for urban people with oil in their portfolios to build on for their country place. I have the latest aerial view up on my computer, but don’t have time to zoom in on all those new places and figure out which is Perry’s. Don’t really care, to be honest.
28Fred Farklestone, the operant words are: “every boot-marine’s head.” And, focus on the “boot.” Old Joe was a general.
Now before anyone thinks I am ‘anti-officer,’ please understand I was one, but in the USAF. While there are differences among the branches of the service, the officer corps breaks down into 4 basic groupings: junior, captains & decent majors, field grade (the other majors, etc), and flag.
Rarely do the best rise to flag rank. Politics wipes them out at or before the field grade rank, or they have the innate wisdom to seek a different career choice. Of course there are exceptions as in any circumstance; Gen Omar Bradley would be an example of the “good.”
But, unless General Joe took personal responsibility for his small arms training, odds are in his entire career and life he did not accumulate a fraction of the time & training the average boot receives in 6 weeks.
29Polite Kool Marxist,
Here’s a photo of the general!
Under his decorations on his chest, he’s wearing expert badges and bars for multiple awards, for both the rifle and the pistol.
He has no excuse for shooting himself!
The general is going to take some very severe ribbing from now on out, and will become Marine Corps lore! He’ll always been know as the general who shot himself in the foot, while clearing his weapon at home!
http://www.doncio.navy.mil/uploads/1011GCF48859.jpg
A Ex-Jarhead (66-69)
30Republicans: Semper FUBAR.
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I’m with you guys questioning Weber’s ENTITLEMENT, if any, to a state pension after about a year as head of TXDoT. First thought I had reading this (I used to commute through then little Round Top- once was going to use the ATM at the bank there, but the fee was outrageous, even though my bank pays it- Galveston was the same- soaking the tourists I guess).
Is Weber’s possible ‘pension’ information available as public record, or artfully buried?
I assume his nepotistic contract would have spelled out such terms. Like others said, Herr Perry filled his maladministration with cronies, probably all with similar sweetheart deals (with some number$ we could further calculate how expensive pRick truly was).
There are many thousands of hardworking, long serving state employees who show up for many years to then draw an average pension (and many already retired).
it would be nice to have it made public, are any reporters or whoever going to make some FOIA requests?
Another thought: It would seem Perry must have finally lost his multimillion dollar state security detail if armed people are getting this close to him (and screwing up– “the weapon fired.”, riiiight).
Any of you know what a retired general’s pension is? You don’t really want to know…and most of them doubledip and moonlight cushy ‘position$’ too.
31Now this is a perfect example of why I don’t like to be out in places where civilians are carrying – whether openly or concealed. Clearing is the process of removing a live round from a firing chamber. Now WHAT – FOR GOD’S SAKE – is the justification for HAVING A CHAMBERED LIVE ROUND unless there is an imminent danger?? Perhaps this brilliant military commander can explain why he has a round chambered while sitting in Rick Perry’s driveway? Is there an infestation of rabid killer rabbits and squirrels planning strategic attacks on Subarus? HELL, EVEN U.S. ARMY STANDARD PROCEDURE calls on soldiers to clear their weapons before entering their mess hall!
https://m.army.mil/article/58684
32UmptyDump,
33Pretty much attributable to one guy. Famed gun guru Jeff Cooper strongly advocated carrying “Condition One”- full mag, round in the chamber, cocked and locked- (for those SA/DA pistols configured suitably, Glocks, etc., slightly different of course).
@UmptyDump
I carry a Colt Combat Commander (semi-automatic caliber .45 ACP handgun) cocked, locked and ready to rock. One round under the hammer, thumb safety pushed up toward the rear sight. The first round from Sam Colt’s semi-automatics is single action, all rounds shot thereafter are double action.
34@Micr – Respectfully, then best we not be in the vicinity of each other. I’m uncomfortable with that.
35@UmptyDump
This is an issue over which I have learned that reasonable people often disagree.
36As a native San Antonian, I can tell you that the weapon fired itself and not as a result of any action by the General. Every retired officer at the rank of Colonel or above (the Lieutenant often is omitted, as in Lieutenant Colonel) knows everything and is incapable of being wrong. SNARK!
37“An awful lot of them seem to fire themselves.”
would this be considered a product defect, or an accessory?
38“Every retired officer at the rank of Colonel or above (the Lieutenant often is omitted, as in Lieutenant Colonel) knows everything and is incapable of being wrong. SNARK!”
yeppers! just ask the guys who were in the Battle of the Bulge, the Chosin Reservoir and the Tet Offensive. the decision makers weren’t wrong, the enemy and our guys just weren’t where they were supposed to be.
39Fred Farklestone, not a lot of fruit salad for a 3-star. But would hazard a guess that too much of his small arms training was pencil whipped.
40I’d like to know why he was carrying? In his car in the driveway of the former governor? And why he felt he had to clear the .45 at that moment?
Just come back from shootin’ the Mooselims? Defending Texas from the jack-booted thugs in Jade Helm? Raiding closed Walmarts to free Obama’s political prisoners?
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