“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” It’s one of the NRA’s classic sayings. Guns aren’t the problem. People are. I agree that people can be problems, but they usually aren’t lethal problems when they aren’t armed to the teeth. Some people don’t get that. Just ask some of them at this year’s Gun Appreciation Day.
From the Department of Dumbass:
Officials say Gary Lynn Wilson, 36, was having his shotgun checked before entering the show when the incident happened. He was unzipping his 12-gauge shotgun’s case when it accidentally fired birdshot pellets, hitting three people, The News & Observer in Raleigh reported. Wilson was planning on privately selling the gun at the show, according to NBC affiliate WNCN.
The three victims, Janet Hoover, Linwood Hester and Jake Alderman, were hit, respectively, in the right torso, left hand and right hand, WNCN reported. They were taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Witness Daniel Peadan told WNCN he was about to enter the building, when he heard a loud pop: “The people right there at the door, a lot of them ran … They scattered because it was chaotic.”
“This was an accidental discharge,” said Brian Long, a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, in a statement….
In Medina, Ohio, an exhibitor at a local gun show was opening a box containing a gun when the weapon went off, striking his partner, who was sitting next to him, NBC station WKYC of Cleveland reported.
The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries in the arm and thigh and was taken to a hospital.
Police told WKYC the shooting was accidental, and a man who attended the show had sold that gun to the exhibitor.
In Indianapolis, state police said a 54-year-old man was loading his .45 caliber semi-automatic gun when he shot himself in the hand, The Associated Press reported. The victim, Emory L. Cozee, had been leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show at the state fairgrounds, officials told the AP. Loaded personal weapons are not permitted inside this show, according to the AP.
Cozee was hospitalized. Police told the AP no charges will be filed and the shooting was accidental.
Nothing says “I love my gun like shooting someone by accident.”
And thank you for posting it.
David Waldman of Daily Kos provides links:
Providence, RI; 12:30 am EST. 1 wounded
Buffalo, NY; 1:00 am EST. 1 dead
Cleveland, OH; 1:04 am EST. 1 dead, 1 wounded
Hamilton, OH; 12:20 CST. No injuries
Odenton, MD; 1:30am EST. 2 wounded
Kingston, NY; 1:45 am EST. 1 wounded
Allentown, PA; 2:00 am EST. 1 dead
Columbus, GA; 2:07 am EST. 1 incidentally wounded
Kirksville, MO; 1:30 am CST. No injuries, no property damage
Elmira, NY; 2:30 am EST. No injuries reported
Washington, DC; 2:30 am EST. 1 dead
Gresham, OR; 12:00 am PST. 1 dead
Spartanburg, SC; early am EST 1 wounded
Charlotte, NC; 3:00 am EST. 1 wounded
Greensboro, NC; 3:30 am EST. 1 dead
McDonough, GA; 3:30 am EST. 1 dead
Chicago, IL; 4:00 am. 1 wounded
Salem, OR; 1:00 am PST. 1 wounded
North Platte, NE; 3:30 am CST. No injuries
Colorado Springs, CO; 2:00 am MST. 1 wounded
Danville, IL; 3:00 am CST. 1 wounded
Sioux City, IA; 3:19 am. Property damage, no injuries
Las Vegas, NV; 2:00 am PST. 2 wounded
St. Louis, MO; 4:00 am. 1 dead
Anchorage, AK; 2:45 am AKST. 1 wounded
Loleta, CA; 4:15 am PST. Incidental injury
Yuma, AZ; 5:45 am MST. Property damage, no injuries
Tallahassee, FL; 8:30 am EST. 1 wounded
Trinidad, OR; 8:00 am PST. 1 dead
Moscow, ID; 9:00 am PST. 1 dead
Stow Creek, NJ; 12:30 pm EST. 1 wounded
Jackson, MS; 12:00 pm CST. 1 wounded
Franklin Co., TX; 12:00 pm CST. 1 dead
Little Rock, AR; 12:10 pm CST. 2 wounded
Raleigh, NC; 1:15 pm EST. 3 wounded
Cleveland, OH; 1:45 pm EST. 1 dead
Hampton, VA; 1:46 pm EST. 2 dead
Long Beach, CA; 10:50 am PST. 1 wounded
Las Vegas, NV; 11:15 am PST. 2 wounded
Kansas City, KS; 1:40 pm CST. 1 dead
Chicago, IL; 1:49 pm CST. 1 wounded
Medina, OH; 3:00 pm EST. 1 wounded
Idaho Falls, ID; 1:00 pm MST. 1 dead
Chicago, IL; 2:00 pm CST. 1 wounded
London, KY; afternoon EST. 14-year-old wounded
London, KY; afternoon EST. 45-year-old wounded in separate incident
San Leandro, CA; 12:20 pm PST. 1 dead, 1 wounded
Port Edwards, WI; 3:00 pm CST. 1 wounded
Ft. Wayne, IN; 4:00 pm EST. 1 dead, 1 wounded
Indianapolis, IN; 4:15 pm EST. 1 wounded
San Jacinto, CA; 2:00 pm PST. 1 wounded
Colorado Springs, CO; time unknown MST. 2 wounded
Lake City, AR; 4:30 pm CST. 2 wounded (life-threatening)
Las Vegas, NV; 3:45 pm PST. No injuries reported
Concord, CA; 3:55 pm PST. No injuries reported
Long Beach, CA; 4:30 pm PST. 1 dead, 1 wounded
Rosewood, FL; evening EST. 1 dead
Oklahoma City, OK; 7:00 pm CST. 1 wounded
Springfield, MA; 8:00 pm EST. Property damage; no injuries
Greenwood, SC; 8:00 pm EST. 2 wounded
Winchester, KY; 8:02 pm. 1 wounded
Philadelphia, PA; night. 1 wounded
San Francisco, CA; 5:30 pm PST. 1 dead
Monroe, LA; night CST. 1 wounded
Sanford, FL; multiple incidents. Property damage, no injuries
Tempe, AZ; 7:15 MST. 1 wounded
Livingston, CA; 6:23 pm PST. 2 wounded
Huntsville, AL; 8:30 pm CST. 1 wounded (life-threatening)
Atlanta, GA; 10:00 pm EST. 1 wounded
Greenville, SC; 10:06 pm EST. 1 dead
Chicago, IL; 9:19 pm CST. 1 wounded
Boston, MA; 10:30 pm EST. Pit bull killed by police officers
Thomasville, NC; 10:38 pm EST. 1 dead
Long Beach, CA; 8:00 pm PST. 1 wounded
Grapevine, TX; 10:00 pm CST. 2 dead
Chicago, IL; 10:00 pm CST. 1 wounded
Albuquerque, NM; 9:15 pm MST. 5 dead
Orlando, FL; night EST. 1 wounded
Sarasota, FL; 11:45 pm EST. 1 wounded
Farmington, NM; time unknown. No injuries
Columbia, SC; approximately 11:50 pm EST. 1 wounded
Ft. Washington, MD; approximately 11:55 pm EST. 1 dead
Aloha, OR; 9:00 pm PST. 1 wounded
Pomona, CA; 9:12 pm PST. 3 wounded
Woodville, CA; 9:45 pm PST. 1 dead, 1 wounded
Los Angeles, CA; 10:15 pm PST. 1 dead
Santa Ana, CA; 11:40 pm PST. 1 dead
of course, that’s a lower bound — there may be yet-unreported or not found news items in the list, and some of the wounded may die today or at a future date as a result of the gunshot wound.
34 dead.
Make good Reality TeeVee
:Charges could be forthcoming against a Henry County mother and her 14-year-old son after the teen accidentally shot and killed his 15-year-old brother, police said.
Henry County police Sgt. Joey Smith said officers dispatched to the family’s home on Deer Trace Drive near McDonough at 2:41 a.m. Saturday discovered that the younger teen had shot his brother.
The brothers, along with a friend who was spending the night, had gotten the mother’s handgun, “which at the time had been unloaded,” Smith said.
“During the course of the evening and early morning hours, one of the boys had evidently loaded the weapon, Smith said. “The 14-year-old at some point pointed the weapon at his brother and pulled the trigger, which resulted in the 15-year-old being struck in the chest area.”
Smith said that while the shooting has been ruled accidental, “the facts will be presented to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution on both the juvenile and the mother.
just to educate myself about guns and their owners. Now I’m not so sure it’s a wise idea.
Sure, it’s statistically unlikely, but man, getting shot by a gun seems like a real downer.
Silly stomv, guns don’t shoot people, people shoot people.
getting pierced by a bullet or other small, hard projectile fired from a narrow tube.