Fun With Guns: When There’s No Bad Guys With a Gun, Shoot Your Friends
Ohio. Ohio, people. Nothing ever happens in Ohio except Presidential campaigns and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
But there’s a 24 year old store clerk who is certainly trying to help bring fame to Ohio.
Investigators don’t expect to seek criminal charges against a man who shot his friend in the head, Lorain police said Monday.
Police ruled the shooting that took place Friday afternoon inside Rudy’s Market on West 23rd Street an accident.
Police said the 25-year-old clerk was sitting behind the register when he pulled out a .45-caliber pistol to show to a 24-year-old friend sitting next to him.
The clerk was handling the gun when it went off and a bullet struck his friend in the head.
Don’t roll your eyes. They didn’t charge Dick Cheney either.
The guy Cheney shot, an old friend, declined to press charges. This made no sense to me at the time but it does now. The victim gets to hold Cheney over whatever burning coals cmd along for a lifetime, as in “hey, I let you off the hook, remember? Here’s what you can do for me now.” The victim still knows a lot more than re copped to at the time of the shooting and it would be the last thing Cheney would want to deal with, especially in public.
1Why isn’t being life-endangeringly stupid a crime? Other people’s lives, I mean. If you want to be stupid enough to endanger your own life, just don’t make anybody else risk theirs or pay any money to try to save you.
If I were holding something like that over Cheney’s head, I want him to publicly confess to being a war criminal, but if I tried he’d just shoot me again.
2Ohio’s two-fer Tuesday: “Police say the man thought his son had caught the bus for school Tuesday morning, but the teen returned home…. dad heard a noise…daddy fired his gun after being startled, killing his 14-year old son.
3http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/204ab98b5b8842df91a6165ed638db90/US–Teen-Shot-At-Home
Rhea, if st00pid became a felony, we would have no choice but to activate the death penalty to deal with the overwhelming influx of politicians into the prison system. As with any invasive species, perhaps spaying/neutering would be kinder in a gentle compassionate conservative way.
4Tell me again how guns don’t kill people. All they need is a moron to function.
5Oh Susan. That is awful. Truly awful. I confess to having had evil thoughts toward young teenagers but fortunately we have no guns around here. I’m allergic to guns. They make me break out in a rash and make me nauseous.
6Other stuff also happens in Ohio
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/east-price-hill/pd-father-shot-14-year-old-son-in-east-price-hill-thought-he-was-an-intruder
7Trip over crack in sidewalk: “Oops!”
Shoots friend in head: “Oops!”
Just another day…
8Rhea, the only way to make Cheney cough up those admissions is under the influence of truth serum. Unfortunately, drug induced confessions don’t work in court — dammit!!!
9Maggie, I doubt they work on cyborgs either. You can’t tell me his heart checks aren’t to put in new batteries and gears.
I was given sodium pentothal once for a minor operation. Afterwards I was asked how I was feeling and if I knew where I was. They were the answers I would have given anyway but they bypassed voluntary control, which was an odd sensation.
10I guess playing with a loaded gun is a hallmark of a member of a “well-regulated militia…”
11@Maggie
A while after the shooting I read where Whittington walked back all this “old friend” crap saying he had only met Darth Cheney a couple or three times over many years and had never before hunted with him. I also read that Darth Cheney had never apologized for shooting Whittington.
12Cleaning out the gene pool one bullet at a time.
13The only funny “ooops” shooting was in Pulp Fiction as in “ooops, musta hit a bump”.
14TFP – UFB
15Isn’t shooting your best friend in the head pretty much the definition of “bad guy with a gun?”
16I still say (for the umpteenth time) that there are no “accidents” with guns (or cars) and every “unintended discharge” should be charged as at least reckless endangerment–since it always endangers someone. Discharges that harm someone should be charged as something else (depending on how the state handles injury or death due to dangerous machinery like cars, chain saws, etc.)
17Please tell me this guy is losing his gun licence – he’s demonstrated that he can’t be trusted with it.
18Please-if you can’t shoot your friends,who can you shoot?
19“They were very close, they were very close,” friend and neighbor Courtney Williams said.
Yeah,close enough Dad could shoot son in neck.
20Nothing happens in Ohio? I happen to live in Ohio and I’m here to tell you, LOTSA stuff happens here.
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I’m SURE of it.
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Give me a minute.
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I got nothing. Never mind.
There. Are. No. Accidents.
22I would make a wisecrack except for the other Ohio shooting with links provided above by Susan on the Left Coast and Wyatt Earl.
There are no words.
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