Responsible Gun Ownership Redux
Anyone is a responsible gun owner until they aren't
Nobody died, which is the good news. But it also means we can't file this story as a Darwin Award nomination. The story, from Bay Minette, Alabama:
I ... don't know where to start. No, really.
Perhaps I might search the archives for the firearm advocate who tried to convince me that guns can't go off accidentally. Not that I would hold all gun advocates to that point, but one wonders in consideration of such an assertion how poorly Mr. Jones handled his Glock.
Still, though, setting that aside and dealing with what we have here, just how does this work? Dad shoots himself in the leg by accident. Mom is upstairs bathing the child, and hears her husband calling for help.
Apparently, she did not hear the gunshot.
Still, though, her son, who was last seen in the bath, manages to reach the handgun first.
Mom tries to take the gun from the child, resulting in a second accidental discharge that strikes her in the neck.
How does that even work?
Glocks (.40 caliber) generally demand a standard 5.5 lb. trigger pull. That strikes me as curious in light of the old assertion that guns cannot discharge accidentally. Someone, please, disabuse me of this notion; or else explain, please, how five and a half pounds of pressure could accidentally be applied to the trigger resulting in Mr. Jones' injury.
I won't bother trying to theorize how the child beat the mother to the gun.
This has to be one of the dumbest firearm accidents in history. Well, this or the time the French army accidentally used live ammunition during a public relations event, injuring seventeen. Or perhaps the time the U.S. Navy accidentally fired an M240 into Gdynia, Poland, while the gun was being cleaned.
Comparatively, though, I can't call the self-injury of an idiot who tried to shoot buckshot out of a .22 revolver—in order to kill bees—and ended up shooting himself in the left hand an accident. Nor the moron who shot himself in the face in order to prove the gun was not loaded.
As Goldy puts it: "Because nothing makes you safer than keeping a gun in your home".
What the hell?
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Notes:
Local 15. "Mother Accidentally Shot by Son, Father also Injured". February 27, 2011. Local15TV.com. March 1, 2011. http://www.local15tv.com/news/local...y-Son-Father-also/23xOSWIZ0EqIn9LjZ7qqqA.cspx
Goldstein, David. "Because Nothing Makes You Safer Than Keeping a Gun in Your Home". Slog. February 28, 2011. Slog.TheStranger.com. March 1, 2011. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/ar...kes-you-safer-than-keeping-a-gun-in-your-home
Anyone is a responsible gun owner until they aren't
Nobody died, which is the good news. But it also means we can't file this story as a Darwin Award nomination. The story, from Bay Minette, Alabama:
The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office said a small child accidentally shot his mother, after finding the gun near his injured father's side.
Around 9:00 p.m. the BCSO was alerted of the shooting at 4621 old Carney Road in Bay Minette. When they arrived to the home they found Allen and Aleisha Jones injured by gunshot.
The couples two small children were at the residence when the incident happened. Their daughter was upstairs asleep at the time of the incident.
When questioned by authorities, Mr. Jones stated he had taken his Glock .40 handgun from the glove compartment of his truck. He was walking to the house when he tripped and fell, then accidentally shot himself in the leg just above the knee.
Jones yelled to his wife for help. Aleisha was upstairs bathing their young son when she heard her husband's call for help. When she arrived on the screened porch, she tried to secure the gun but her son beat her to the gun.
After attempting to take the gun from the child, a round was fired. Aleisha was hit in the left side of her neck.
(Local 15)
Around 9:00 p.m. the BCSO was alerted of the shooting at 4621 old Carney Road in Bay Minette. When they arrived to the home they found Allen and Aleisha Jones injured by gunshot.
The couples two small children were at the residence when the incident happened. Their daughter was upstairs asleep at the time of the incident.
When questioned by authorities, Mr. Jones stated he had taken his Glock .40 handgun from the glove compartment of his truck. He was walking to the house when he tripped and fell, then accidentally shot himself in the leg just above the knee.
Jones yelled to his wife for help. Aleisha was upstairs bathing their young son when she heard her husband's call for help. When she arrived on the screened porch, she tried to secure the gun but her son beat her to the gun.
After attempting to take the gun from the child, a round was fired. Aleisha was hit in the left side of her neck.
(Local 15)
I ... don't know where to start. No, really.
Perhaps I might search the archives for the firearm advocate who tried to convince me that guns can't go off accidentally. Not that I would hold all gun advocates to that point, but one wonders in consideration of such an assertion how poorly Mr. Jones handled his Glock.
Still, though, setting that aside and dealing with what we have here, just how does this work? Dad shoots himself in the leg by accident. Mom is upstairs bathing the child, and hears her husband calling for help.
Apparently, she did not hear the gunshot.
Still, though, her son, who was last seen in the bath, manages to reach the handgun first.
Mom tries to take the gun from the child, resulting in a second accidental discharge that strikes her in the neck.
How does that even work?
Glocks (.40 caliber) generally demand a standard 5.5 lb. trigger pull. That strikes me as curious in light of the old assertion that guns cannot discharge accidentally. Someone, please, disabuse me of this notion; or else explain, please, how five and a half pounds of pressure could accidentally be applied to the trigger resulting in Mr. Jones' injury.
I won't bother trying to theorize how the child beat the mother to the gun.
This has to be one of the dumbest firearm accidents in history. Well, this or the time the French army accidentally used live ammunition during a public relations event, injuring seventeen. Or perhaps the time the U.S. Navy accidentally fired an M240 into Gdynia, Poland, while the gun was being cleaned.
Comparatively, though, I can't call the self-injury of an idiot who tried to shoot buckshot out of a .22 revolver—in order to kill bees—and ended up shooting himself in the left hand an accident. Nor the moron who shot himself in the face in order to prove the gun was not loaded.
As Goldy puts it: "Because nothing makes you safer than keeping a gun in your home".
What the hell?
____________________
Notes:
Local 15. "Mother Accidentally Shot by Son, Father also Injured". February 27, 2011. Local15TV.com. March 1, 2011. http://www.local15tv.com/news/local...y-Son-Father-also/23xOSWIZ0EqIn9LjZ7qqqA.cspx
Goldstein, David. "Because Nothing Makes You Safer Than Keeping a Gun in Your Home". Slog. February 28, 2011. Slog.TheStranger.com. March 1, 2011. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/ar...kes-you-safer-than-keeping-a-gun-in-your-home