Fun With Guns: What Did The Lord Say Cometh Before a Fall? Edition
Well, you knew it had to happen.
Police in Tennessee say a man accidentally shot himself and his wife while showing off his gun in church.
Tellico Plains Police Chief Russ Parks told The Knoxville News Sentinel that members of the First United Methodist Church were talking about guns in churches.
Parks said the man pulled out .380 caliber Ruger handgun, removed the magazine, cleared the chamber, and showed the gun. He put the magazine back in and returned the gun to its holster.
When someone asked if they could see the gun, he pulled it out saying the gun was not loaded and pulled the trigger.
Parks said the bullet sliced the man’s palm, then entered the left side of his wife’s abdomen and exited the right side.
The couple, in their 80s, were flown to a hospital with injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening.
Oh, I dunno. I kinda imagine his life is in deep danger once they get home. For the rest of his life his wife will ask, “Remember that time you shot me, you damn fool?”
Somebody, please, in the name of the Lord, take guns away from 80 year old people.
Thanks to Claudia for the heads up.
“Somebody, please, in the name of the Lord, take guns away from 80 year old people.”
While, we’re at it, lets take away the guns from 8 year olds . . . because what could possibly go wrong?
“Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunting season starts this weekend, and this year, for the first time, children of any age will be able to hunt with a firearm while accompanied by an adult. Last Saturday, Gov. Scott Walker quietly signed into law a bill that lifted age and firearm restrictions on adults hunting with small children.
In Wisconsin, hunters need to be at least 14 years old and pass a hunter’s safety class to hunt alone, but the state’s mentoring program allowed children 10 and up to hunt with an adult. The new law eliminates this age restriction, as well as lifts a ban on hunters carrying multiple firearms when they’re hunting with children.
Licences for the children now able to hunt under the new law went on sale Monday, making Wisconsin the 35th state to have no minimum hunting age.
https://thinkprogress.org/wisconsin-children-hunting-law-d2752a12dfb2/
1I just need to interrupt yet another example of guna**holery to comment on “injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening.”
We often see this phrase in accident reports (or guna**holery reports) and maybe say to ourselves, Oh, what a relief. But it may not be. My brother’s motorcycle was hit by a car and his “injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening” meant that he spent about a year in the hospital and rehab and the best he could do for the rest of his life was to walk with a cane, and when his apartment building caught fire he was the only one who didn’t make it out, at the age of 27. A woman who was shot in the Las Vegas massacre had “injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening” but she’s now a quadriplegic. It just bugs me– that phrase covers a heck of a lot of territory from a few stitches to life-altering for an entire family; all it means is “probably won’t die this week.”
But yeah, somebody was probably bound to get shot in church by some idiot.
2Is it me or ” showing off his gun in church” sounds a bit against what should happen in church! Must be me then.
3Well, hells bells. An 80 yr old showing off in church like an 8 yr old on a playground. Wonder what the Bible says about that.
4@Tilphousia: Matthew 21:52. “Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place; for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” (Similar in John 18:11.)
5I expect the body count from bad guys shooting people in churches will soon be surpassed by the body count from good, but careless guys with guns at churches.
6Hey, let’s be a bit more restrained about taking guns away from 80 year old people. I’ll be 80 and a year and one-half, and — as I live in a remote area of Lee County, almost one hour by car from the nearest Sheriff’s office — I appreciate having three shotguns, a Ruger 22-10, a 30-30 lever action, a Ruger 308 with a night vision scope, three more 22 semi auto rifles, and a few hand guns laying around the house. As the Beatles said, happy-ness is a warm, close-at-hand gun. Instead of taking my guns away when I’m 80, just make it a criminal offense for an 80 year old person to carry a firearm into a church, and/or into any other place occupied by any other human being. I’ve no problem with that, at all.
BTY, what is that wavy thing sticking out you your Sheriff’s forehead just above his eyes?
7Loridie, once again where I come from – when people get their driver’s license renewed they also get an eye exam. If you have a license to carry you should be required to get an eye exam once a year. It would be during that exam that someone could get a good look at how well the examinee handles things: for instance, do his hands shake? Does he have arthritis. Does he mumble a lot about unintelligible stuff? How well does he cooperate during the exam? since this is an exam to see if a body could shoot straight, all of the criteria would need to be a perfect – not passing – grade. Yeah. I know. It makes too damn much sense.
8Would Jesus pack a wimpy little handgun like a .380?
Nah. He would carry at least a 10mm. Or maybe a grenade launcher.
They don’t call him the Prince of Peace for nuthin.
9@slipstream
Jesus would definitely carry a caliber .380 semi-automatic in his concealed handgun rotation.
If He had to use the caliber .380 semi-automatic, He would take a deep breath and breathe out before firing three rounds: two at rough center of body mass and one to the head.
10Micr, you are enjoying this just a bit too much.
11Micr, I stopped carrying a .380 semi auto hand gun, because this part of the world is in what is locally known as “the sandy lands”, and the damn automatic frequently jams because of sand in the damn thing. I now carry a revolver, which has not, so far, jammed when I really needed it.
And slipstream is almost right, you are exhibiting an excessive amount of enjoyment……….
12@George in Lee County
@slipstream
Hmmm.
13I’m guessing that there probably other UMC-ers here but since nobody else has brought it up yet. From the Book of Resolutions of the United Methodist Church – 2016: Our Call to End Gun Violence:
7. For United Methodist congregations to display signs that prohibit carrying guns onto church property.
You can read the whole thing here: http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/gun-violence
‘Course, Methodists are sometimes called ‘flexible’ in their practices (my own Sunday attendances are spotty, I’ve shared many glasses of wine with various ministers outside of church) so maybe the Knoxville FUMC, or more likely that 80 year old congregant, has decided not to follow the resolution. But geez! Seriously?!! He brought a gun INTO THE CHURCH?!!!!
14C’mon George in Lee County, there can’t be any place in Lee that’s ‘almost an hour away’ from (central) Giddings.
Lee is somewhat smaller than my county, and I can drive from one corner to another in perhaps an hour or less at highway speeds.
I used to commute through Lee often (mostly on 21, 77, 290), Dime Box was the most memorable widespot in the road.
In the morning when I saw all the LEO’s (sheriffs, DPS) parked all over at that Dime Box restaurant on SH 21 for breakfast as I drove by, I knew I could commence ‘flying low’ for a while, heheh. Over many decades I got real good at avoiding speed traps, etc., not only using actual ‘radar detectors’, but acquiring a ‘sixth-sense’ for where they were and when. Was very rarely ‘cited’, despite rolling up many HS highway miles (when I wasn’t ‘air-commuting’).
Micr, you didn’t read this…
15yet another baby boomer,
Senility strikes deep
16Into another Repub geezer it creeps
…
(and however the rest of that moldy oldy rock song goes)
Sandridge – Good reference! Perfect update of the lyrics. And hey! you young whippersnapper, not so moldy oldy. I like that song!
Unfortunately some of the original lyrics still fit the current chaos.
“There’s something happening here
17What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware”
“Paranoia strikes deep.
18Into your life it will creep.
It starts when you’re always afraid:
Step out of line, & they’ll come and take you away.”
She’ll be saying a lot more than, “Remember that time you shot me…?”
This going to get even better.
Care to guess what that helicopter ride is going to cost them?
If they are lucky, about $18,000 – each! Could be $25,000 – each – depending on the area. So, between $36,000 and $50,000.
Medicare, which I assume they are on, will provide some coverage but only it is approved – up front – by a physician and only to save a life. Not sure that applies here.
But before that happens, Medicare will take ALL this couple’s deductible(s), then hit them for 20% of the actual costs. They could be hit with $13,000 to $20,000 in charges; and that’s just for the transportation. After transportation costs they will still have to pay even more for the care they received in the hospital, and any (and, at 80 years of age, there will be) after care required.
That 2nd Amendment right is going to cost them where it really hurts – in the wallet.
19Own all the damn guns you want, but keep them (and their projectiles) on your property. Don’t endanger my life with your mishandling.
20Regarding that song, when Seattle had those protest demonstrations in 1999 around the WTO meetings (aka The Battle of Seattle), I was in school there, and that song was as timely that week as ever before. I couldn’t get it out of my head throughout those days. I almost joined them, but I concluded I couldn’t run fast enough far enough to escape the tear gas and tanks. When the song was new I could have, but time marches on.
2180 — or at least that particular 80 — may be boomer but it’s not baby boomer. The oldest of us baby boomers are only 72.
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