That’s Her Story and She’s Sticking To It
At least until they find her boyfriend, I would bet.
A Bend woman was cited on assault and reckless endangering charges Thursday after a loaded .22-caliber Derringer pistol fell out of her pocket during a visit to McDonald’s and it fired, striking her husband in the abdomen police said. He remained hospitalized Friday, but had improved to fair condition.
Carney said a preliminary investigation revealed that Richard Lee Cooper, 47, and wife Barbara Annette Masters, 48, were sitting in the restaurant’s dining area when Masters leaned forward and the gun fell out of her pocket and hit the floor.
The impact with the floor caused the gun to go off, with the bullet striking Cooper in the abdomen, he said.
The only thing scarier than “women shoots husband in McDonalds” is “woman accidentally shoots husband in McDonalds.” If she wasn’t aiming …. no telling who’d be in the hospital today.
Yeah, guns in school. What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
My Tea Party friend keeps telling me that we all need guns to protect ourselves. I said I thought fresh gingersnaps were a better idea. You can’t shoot while you’re eating and dipping your cookie in milk. Can you?
1This would never happen in school. First graders are now getting gun safety classes. Sarcasm font is on!
2There was a similar case in Houston a couple of years ago, a man with a carry permit got up from his chair, gun fell out of his pocket and discharged, shooting a stranger at the next table. She didn’t die, bit IIRC she was hospitalized for weeks, and suffered long-term injuries/disabilities as a result.
3That was the first excuse Han Solo tried to use at the Cantina when he shot Jabba’s bounty hunter nder the table.
4@marge–I’ve contended for years that if we could substitute “sponge” for “gun” in all these stories, the outcomes would be substantially different. “Ginger snaps” is far superior!
5So, now we add lead poisoning to the ways fast food is dangerous to your health.
6@RA, that’s a good one!
7Why in tarnation would anyone carry a gun in a pocket? Have they never had their darned cell phone fall out? Fanny packs!!! Tacky, but the gun won’t fall out if people with CHLs are going to insist on carrying everyfreakinwhere.
8On my Facebook page a couple of weeks ago, I had a shirt-tail cousin post one of those signs that some restaurants are placing on their entry that basically say “This is a no concealed weapons zone”. God, she was all up in the air about it! I was shocked at the number of “likes” she got, and I, of course, deleted the posting, and un-friended the idiot.
9Right here in Tennessee, they are fast-tracking GUNS IN PARKING LOTS EVERYWHERE because they cannot see through the gunsmoke and see it will be found unconstitutional – property rights and all~yes, our TNLege is full of Evangelibagging Idiots, just like Tejas~
Love the Gingersnaps, that along with cold milk, my type of weapon~
10Look at our new headline in the Tennessean – What I want you folks to know is Ron Ramsey, our Lt.Guv is a teeny, tiny little man about 5’2″, 130 lbs, total imbecile, and this is his baby – Evangelibagging Morons of Tennessee-oh, he wears cowboy boots – I’ve seen him up close and ISTG I busted out laughing and he knew it.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130211/NEWS/302110051/Senate-vote-tonight-guns-trunks-bill
11Now McDonald’s isnt safe, either. Does that mean I HAVE to cook now?
12I’ve heard folks call their manly bits a “Johnson” but now I see the fad has been changed. Maybe it’s those Mel Gibson movies and fashion kilts. Protect your McDonalds, fellas.
13Eykis ~ Tennessee is just trying to catch up to the success Georgia’s gun-nut organizations has had.
14http://www.georgiacarry.org
http://www.georgiapacking.org
Maybe the only safe way to eat at McDonald’s now is the drive-through lane, but not in their parking lots with stray bullets flying everywhere.
I’m waiting to watch the really big fight when the plaintiff’s bar goes after those state laws giving businesses immunity from liability if an employee gets trigger happy in their parking lots. Whooee!
15Don’t really know a lot about hand guns (read as, I know nothing), but doesn’t it seem that an unusually high percentage discharge “accidentally” when they’re dropped? Does that truly happen so often, or should my BS meter be red-lining?
16It should be no surprise to anyone who Googles the subject that there are uncounted gun owner websites where people argue that, so long as they have a permit, they have a Second Amendment right to carry a concealed weapon into a retail establishment or to “protect” themselves at their own place of employment. They dispute that businesses have the right to ban weapons being brought onto their property because it is a “public” space.
But I and my family go about our business unarmed. Don’t we and other members of the public have the right to be safe and secure against harm from the accidental or impulsive discharge of firearms by those who possess them?
As far as I’m concerned, my inalienable right to life trumps your “right” to jeopardize it needlessly.
17Thank you, Umptydump. I feel the same way. And thank you, JJ, and all your clients. Still, I wish that I understood how dropping a weapon results on the weapon firing. Aren’t there safe-guards of some sort? Sometimes I’m just embarrassed by the things I don’t know. Still, on the matter of guns, maybe I don’t want to know.
18Rubymay, some weapons were renowned for firing when dropped, due to design flaws. Anything designed after, say, 1950 shouldn’t do that, IF it’s being carried properly. So the “accidental” shooters either chose not to use the safe-guards that are designed in (which takes conscious effort), or else they pulled the trigger themselves, possibly without meaning to.
19So now instead of Take Your Child To Work, it’s Take Your Gun To Work.
20Good God, I’m staying home!