The NRA Poster Child of the Day
Yesterday in Georgia, the United Damn States of America, a man actually did shoot himself in the foot.
A Rome man was taken to Floyd Medical Center Wednesday night after police said he accidentally shot himself in the left ankle in the parking lot of the Shannon Diner, 4525 Calhoun Road.
The gun fired when the man was reholstering it, causing a bullet to lodge in his left ankle. Based on the investigation, the gun may have discharged after the trigger got caught on the man’s clothing.
No charges are expected to be filed against the man, identified as Anthony Robinson of Rome, since he did have a gun permit.
Good aim, Dude!
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
An increasing synergy between the NRA and the Darwin Awards.
1one wonders why he was “reholstering” in a diner parking lot. And good thing the bullet went into his own body, and not someone else’s.
2Heard of a duck hunter, sitting for hours in a blind, who wanted to know if his foot was numb, so he prodded it with the muzzle of his shotgun. With predictable result.
You have to take a test before driving a car and drivers still do stupid things, so a test before buying a gun wouldn’t solve everything, but I bet it would help.
3Ok, I have diddle-squat experience with handguns. Only shot a rifle once at a target (rocked it a little). Might actually be interested in learning some skill with a real gun someday – a real gun, requiring focus, aim and control, not one of those cockamamie devices you only have to point and spray in the general direction. (There’s a reason there’s no Olympic sport involving those. Just get a t-shirt that says “I Am A Weenie” and get on with your life.)
However, I have heard of these things called ‘safeties’ that keep guns from going off in an unauthorized fashion. Aren’t they supposed to be engaged before holstering? Or any time you’re not actually intending to be firing at something?
I think when guns are licensed, there should be a road test similar to getting a driver license. Look over your shoulder when backing up, put the safety on before holstering.
4This guy sounds like a good candidate for Steve Stockman to take as his guest to the next SOTU address.
5THIS DIDN’T HAPPEN. David Barton proved that gun accidents didn’t happen under the Founding Vaders and they aren’t happening now. Stop restricting my freedumbs.
6Judith
Many handguns do not have safety mechanism.
You can no more rely on a safety than the statement ‘It isn’t loaded’, you will live longer around weapons if you assume i is always loaded and never on safety.
7@Sister Artemis – I wondered the same thing. Did he eat so much in the diner that he had to adjust his belt, and holster? Was he showing off his gun to someone in the parking lot? Maybe from now on he should just order Domino’s delivered to his door. But then, we’d have to worry about the safety of the delivery guy…
8Some should never have a firearm. Know a fellow who managed to shoot himself in the leg – attempting to perfect his Wyatt Earp fast draw. A few years later he did it again, this time getting himself in the ass!
Another that I used to know was a cop and a shootist of some note… in more ways than one. He shot national competition and was very good. But one Saturday night he blew up his TV attempting to outdraw Matt Dillon. Another time he was showing off at the cop shop and he dropped his shootin’ iron. The bullet went thru a couple of walls into the restroom where a rookie happened to be taking a dump. He wasn’t hurt but when they found him he was on the floor, service weapon drawn, pants still down, and peeking out from under the stall door!
Two rules (there are more of course) of gun handling: 1. ALL guns are loaded. 2. Safeties are unsafe and can’t be trusted!
As I said, some should never have a firearm. Unfortunately, too many do.
9A lot of gun-toters claim that they carry a handgun for self-protection. Apparently this fellow shot a hole in that argument.
10Another gun-toting moron – can hardly wait until the shoot-outs begin in parking lots all over Tennessee with their new “GunZ In TrunkZ” laws~yeah, Friday afternoon will be eversomuchfun~
11Was he trying ot get out of paying for dinner?
12But…….I thought it was VIDEO GAMES that caused all the trouble. Was he looking at his IPad at the same time????
13@Grung_e_Gene “Stop restricting my freedumbs”. Too funny!
14Why do these dumb@sses keep shooting themselves in the Feet???
15Would Someone Please invent an upside down holster?!!!
Hide the guns. Period.
16There is no such thing to me as an unloaded gun. Also there is no safety
17Connie555 said it: No such thing as an unloaded gun. And no safety, not really. That little doohicky on the side…called a safety…does not make the gun safe. (Nevertheless, I engage the sucker when not actually shooting, but I don’t *depend* on it to the point of paying no attention where the piece is pointed.)
Carelessness in putting a pistol into or yanking it from a holster (some holsters, some weapons, let’s be fair) can result in changing that little doohicky’s position.) Carelessness of any kind with a firearm is potentially (and too often actually) fatal. So far I haven’t shot myself and I’m 68. Doesn’t mean I won’t do something stupid someday and become an object of scorn and derision, but it won’t come from treating a firearm as unloaded or depending on the doohicky.
18Do you think he learned a lesson from this? I doubt it. We’ve got our share of stories of idiots with guns up here in the frigid north. Especially during hunting season.
19@mb, if he’d shoot himself in the ***** the third time, at least we wouldn’t have to worry about him breeding (unless he already has).
I hate guns and don’t own any but I know more about gun safety than some of these morons walking around armed to kill.
20Of course there were no charges filed. It is not against the law to be stupid.
21Now……..if we could just impose a tax on “stooooopid”……..
22And this is one of the goofballs that you want armed, locked and loaded, carrying a pistol into your grocery store, the dry cleaners, your local ice house, or an elementary school where he might sniff out some trouble…..Lord have mercy.
23Not the brightest bulb in the marquee, was he?
Back in about 8th grade, one of the kids was practicing his ‘fast draw’ and turned out to be quicker on the trigger than he was on the draw.
24He was known forever after as Stubby.
Am I the only one tired of these goobers not having charges pressed against them for discharging a weapon? Either they’re ‘cleaning their gun’ (probably showing off to somebody) or ‘readjusting himself’ (probably trying to get his fat patootie into the car or the seat in the movie theater) when it goes kablammo. I’m sorry, if you’re that dumb/careless, then you have no business with a permit to carry the darned thing and you should be charged when you discharge. You are endangering other people’s lives in your efforts to appear macho, and you should face fines and forfeiture of the weapon. That might get some of these guys to think seriously about their behavior and save some lives – or at least their own stupid feet.
25Hey, hey! Just because a careful, experienced in gun safety guy, and law-abiding citizen, 1st Amendment hero happens to shoot himself accidentally–doesn’t mean that guns can be unsafe.
Or maybe –wait a minute.
26I think UmptyDump wins.
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