Fun With Guns: Where Was The Good Guy With a Gun? Edition
Okay, if you’re ever in North Carolina and some guy tells you that he has homemade whiskey or a homemade firing range, leave.
Officials said three people were shooting at a homemade shooting range when one of them reached for his gun. The trigger, they said, caught something and the victim was shot in the chest.
The injured person was flown to a Charlotte hospital with serious injuries. His name was not released.
My trigger caught something is the polite way of saying, “I shot you.”
Okay. I’m trying to visualize this… reaches for gun… shoots self in chest… Now how do you do that if the barrel is pointing away from you? Oh, yeah. I think I see the problem.
Stupid is as stupid does, sir.
1— Forrest Gump
Doesn’t say if the victim was the one pulling the gun and even then it makes zero sense. A shoulder holster allows the gun to hang at your side and when it is pulled out of the holster it is usually pointing away from your body,not at your chest. Maybe the shooting was alcohol related and no accident.
2It wouldn’t matter (so much) if the trigger caught something as long as the gun wasn’t pointing at anyone. Anyone who doesn’t know that you never aim at something you don’t want to shoot should not have a gun.
Or pointed scissors–just the round-ended ones for this guy.
3Cleaning out the gene pool one bullet at a time.
4The only “something” that is very effective at pulling the trigger of a handgun is known as a “finger”. Headline should read “YET ANOTHER NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE (KILLS or WOUNDS) FECKLESS HANDGUN TOTER”.
5no kidding, Micr. And people who own guns and say they’re just for fun need to remember you shouldn’t own a gun if you don’t plan to kill with it. Do they like killing? If you are holding a gun for any reason you’re more likely to get shot. They are not a sign of friendship.
6Could’ve been the whiskey
7Might’ve been the gin
Could’ve been the three or four six-packs
I don’t know
But look at the mess I’m in.
My head is like a football,
I think I’m gonna die!
Telling me oh me oh my,
Wasn’t that a party?
If it went down as they say, I can actually see how it could happen. He probably picked it up by the barrel. That would have it pointing right at him and would mean the trigger could be pulled as he brought it towards him. In the movies it’s how the hero disarms the bad guy (of course it never goes off then, despite a finger on the trigger). Add ignorance and alcohol and voila, self inflicted sucking chest wound.
8@ Truly Texan-When I was 7, I went to the movies and saw a cop jump onto a running board (A really long time ago). He was yelling follow that car! On the way home I jumped for the running of a passing car, I missed, 2 broken ribs and very bloody nose. Then I grew up.
9Maybe they were playing cops and robbers, just like on TEEVEE!
@ Truly Texan-When I was 7, I went to the movies and saw a cop jump onto a running board (A really long time ago). He was yelling follow that car! On the way home I jumped for the running board of a passing car, I missed, 2 broken ribs and very bloody nose. Then I grew up.
10Maybe they were playing cops and robbers, just like on TEEVEE!
@Irish in S.C.
11Maybe so. Except if they were playing cops and robbers they would have found a black kid to shoot. A little surprised they didn’t point the blame that direction anyway.
Sorry your running board stunt didn’t work out. I know someone who had a similar experience after shining theirs up with Armor All. It looked nice and new but when they stepped on it they hit the ground pretty fast. Funny in hindsight.
@ Coprolite – Wasn’t that a party! I saw someone under my kitchen table talking to my old tomcat – they were talking about hockey … the cat was talking back … round about then everything went black, but wasn’t that a party!
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