Fun With Guns: You Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine Edition
Florida.
During a road rage incident, some idiot shot hisowndamnself.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, the man said he had been driving toward Orlando on Interstate-4 when another driver allegedly flashed a weapon after the two had some type of altercation.
To protect himself, the man brandished his own handgun, causing it to discharge into his leg.
It’s hard to be a tough guy while you’re bleeding from your own gun. But if you think about it, this may be the solution to innocent bystanders during road rage. Just have the drivers shoot themselves and says, “So there! That’ll show you.” The one who survives the worst wound wins.
Thanks to Mike for the heads up.
Go look at the photo with the article. I didn’t know that the middle finger was a legitimate weapon. Actually it probably does a pretty good job of getting folks shot at, if that’s what they want.
I definitely stay out of the way of angry drivers.
1We had a guy here a while back, driving erratically because he was attempting suicide with a gun while driving. He nearly hit a woman in another car. She followed and confronted him and he put six bullets into her. IN VERMONT!!!
http://www.vnews.com/news/8692869-95/police-vt-woman-killed-in-road-rage-encounter
2Best advice I’ve ever been given:
3“Don’t make eye contact and keep all your fingers on the steering wheel.”
My Dad, teaching me to drive, “Drive like everyone else on the road is crazy.”
Usually I have an intuition about when another driver will do something obnoxious and being prepared for it helps to keep me calmer about it.
4Marge, Raw Story often uses stock photos that have no connection to the story they’re with. Hence the photo credit at the bottom of the store to shutterstock.com.
5My son once flipped the bird to a couple of guys who cut him off. They followed him. When he pulled over to confront them, they got out with a tire iron and a chain. He drove off, they followed right to a police station, where they gave up and left.
Next day he got permits, bought 2 handguns and has been walking around armed ever since. He didn’t know the 2nd Amendment existed until then and still claims his weapons are a ‘political statement’. Wonder how many other gun nuts are simply scared. And bad shots.
6I had a guy stop on a ramp, blocking me and the cars behind me, and get out of his car to swear at me because I hadn’t let him in front of me. (I didn’t think there was safe room there, but plenty behind me. He zoomed up and jammed in front anyway.) I locked the doors and wrote down his license number. He finally finished dancing, got in his car and drove on, while I went another way. These idiots are in such a blazing hurry, but have time to play childish games with anyone who doesn’t get out of their way fast enough. They think driving is about winning, as if it’s a video game.
A few years ago someone thought an older man was driving too slowly, so he started ramming the back of the man’s car. When the older man pulled over to let him go by, the second man got out, yanked the old man out, and beat him to death in the road. An off-duty cop stopped, drew his gun and told the killer to stop. When the killer ran toward him, the cop shot him to death as the mad dog he was. I believe the cop faced no charges or punitive measures.
7So is this Florida’s version of a selfie?
8The one who survives the worst wound wins.
Its not that it has finally come to this. It has always been thus. Some people, male usually, female some of the time, have a built-in red zone like some fighting dogs do. If only we could find these folks and help them before they are turned loose on their own! I think there would be more of us still alive!
9CONNERSVILLE, Ind. – Shooting himself in the leg is not the way Connersville Police Chief David Counceller planned to promote his candidacy for Fayette County sheriff.
10http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2014/01/20/indiana-police-chief-accidentally-shoots-self-at-gun-shop/4666967/
JJ, I read this story several times…… and I still have yet to figure out who……”the good guy with the gun” would be.
However, we are talking about Florida…..
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