Fun With Guns: Scared Of Your Own Shadow Edition
It’s Virginia Beach.
Police say the homeowner accidentally shot himself around 6 a.m. this morning.
Police say the homeowner thought someone was breaking into his home.
He went looking for who he thought was an intruder – when his gun accidentally went off.
He does know which way to point it, right?
Now crooks will feel perfectly safe breaking into his house. Dude, you might as well have hung a sign on your door.
Thanks to tucsonbarbara for the heads up.
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GUN GOHMERT classification:
Life – short
Domain -dumb
Kingdom – couch
Phylum – spud-nut
Class – clown
Order – unsafe
Family – inbred
Genus – not genius
Species – indeterminate stupid
Based on the data gathered by Juanita Jean, perhaps we can hire a college psych student to write a brief ten question test to separate the idiots from their guns. Or, simply make them sit in a bathroom with written instructions for breathing and let them self exterminate.
1How much safe was he with a gun.?
2The good guy with the gun was also an idiot with a gun. Sort of cancels each other out.
In the interest of fixing stupid,please advise all these morons with accidental gun dischareges to join the Air Force. You know-AIM HIGHER.
3Oh, PKM, I am so grateful to you for taking care of this data in such an easy to use way. Speaking of easy to use, those of you who have more time than money and a working computer and are retired librarians or compulsive organizers, I’m seeing if anyone is interested in helping index the 19 years of TEXAS OBSERVER still unindexed. It’s more fun than eating popcorn if you fit the definition of cataloger and even tolerable for folks who just want to do something useful on the computer where you can zip over and see JJs ever so often. Here’s what you do: search for TEXAS OBSERVER INDEXING PROJECT and contact TEXAS OBSERVER. They are ever so polite and grateful. You might even pick up a few juicy items while you work. And you don’t even need a gun.
4In some ways this series of readings saddens me.
Off and on for 35 years as a hobby and once or twice as a job I have taught people, men and women, very young to middle aged, to shoot handguns, rifles, and shotguns. In between times I have taught a half dozen or so classes of experienced police officers and executive security types how to survive street type handgun fights.
I have never personally experienced the substandard level of intellect in my students as I read about on these pages.
I am not against concealed carry, but it is clear that the selection process and the training does not work at a minimally acceptable level.
5Marge Wood, behind every good man is a better woman. I am particularly lucky to have three great women in my life, my wife, my mother and my all persevering secretary. They keep me organized and doing what I do best. Honestly, the Texas Observer would probably thank me to stay out of their files. However, my secretary is truly a saint and if she is willing to contribute to the task, I will be happy to pay her for her time.
As for ‘Gohmert for Dummies’, or, ‘Guns, Soup to Nuts’, it could be indexed along either a zoological model or as a cookbook.
6“Hung a sign on your door”; i.e., identifying your house as absolutely primo territory for burglars. Also another way of identifying your house: put an NRA decal on a window or door. That way gun thieves will know exactly who has what arsenal and make their plans. Tried to explain this many a time to a gun nut and they simply did not understand it. Well, then again, if you asked them where the Barretts of Wimpole Street lived, they wouldn’t know.
7Wow! Did you guys hear that? PKM is willing to PAY his secretary to do indexing for TEXAS OBSERVER! Let us know if she wants to do it. I’ll be curious, as always.
Now, if you didn’t already know, this is Three Kings Day, the day that everyone in South Texas takes down their ornaments. I’m still working on mine. Good thing I don’t live in South Texas.
8I keep finding myself at the insurance question: if these yoyos are shooting themselves and require medical care, they’re driving up my medical insurance rates, whether they are claiming on their own medical policies or using the rwnj alternative of the “free” ER visit. If they’re shooting other people, same thing, except they ought to be sued for personal injury.
Time for the insurance industry to decide they need some “earnings” from gun owners and push for requirements for liability insurance.
9I missed this the first time-My eldest brother lives in Virginia Beach and he has at least one handgun. He is overtly religious and a wingnut,but he isn’t a fool or tool when it comes to his gun. One out of three ain’t all bad.
10The well-ordered militia really needs a better training program.
11Since this is America the homeowner should now sue himself for damages.
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