|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » General Discussion |
Emit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 06:58 PM Original message |
Man who accidentally shot woman in restaurant (gun dropped from his pocket): I’m totally distraught |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. He should be distraught - he was negligent |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 08:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Precisely. Another good reason never to carry a weapon without a safety and firing pin block. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
49. L-l-l-l-lawsuit!!!! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. Besides being "distraught", |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. I always forget when I'm carrying. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. I believe the word used in these incidents is "isolated". Lots and lots of "isolated" incidents. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
39. Actually, such incidents are extremely rare. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #39 |
70. 2.5 million per year is extremely rare? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #70 |
71. where did you get that number? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #71 |
72. From the post I replied to. NT |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #72 |
76. 2.5 per one million people, lol.. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #72 |
79. ever verify anything on your own? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #79 |
80. "Every" verify anything yourself? NT |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:32 PM Response to Reply #80 |
81. Always answer a question with a question? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. Clearly not. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:46 PM Response to Reply #83 |
84. what did you mis-read? post said 2.5 million, you said 2.5 million |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #84 |
86. It said 2.5 per million. So it looks like you made the same mistake. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #86 |
87. ROFL |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. I hope she sues the restaurant for a brazillion dollars. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:05 PM Response to Reply #5 |
55. I think there was a nursing baby there that night |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. Aw heck, why should he face criminal charges? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. +++++++++ |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
36. Actually I would equate it more to reckless driving. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:20 PM Response to Reply #36 |
59. car aren't designed to kill people |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. +10000000000 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
60. This. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
7. I once had a portable nuke fall out of my pocket . . . |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Hehe. + 1 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 08:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
30. Is that a nuke/gun in your pocket, or are ya' just glad to see me? ... n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
52. Thank goodness |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. He ought to be distraught....he did harm to an innocent bystander. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. Deleted message |
Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
10. Guns don't kill people, pockets do... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
40. heehee. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. Deleted message |
ladywnch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. okay, I'm no gun owner so please excuse my ignorance here |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Derringer would be fairly small |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Plus at least one .38 round @ approx. 90 grams = 515 grams or 1.13 lbs. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
56. I usually check my pockets when I put my coat on |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. If more people carried guns, this sort of thing would never happen. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Control-Z (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
48. That's what they say. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
64. LOL. nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. what a fucking idiot |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. Personal responsibility! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
18. If only other patrons had been armed... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
bergie321 (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. LOL |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
19. She should have been wearing a bp vest if at a ccw restaurant. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:47 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Maybe we can start suing establishments that don't provide kevlar |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. She was shot in the butt. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. He is clearly the victim. He's DISTRAUGHT! That stupid woman was merely shot. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:51 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Think about the bullet's poor children too. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:54 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. If it was a hollow point, that poor bullet is in shreds even as we speak! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
26. He put on a jacket and didn't 'notice' that one side seemed to hang a smidge heavier than the other? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
29. i'm not sure i believe him not knowing he had the gun |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TorchTheWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:53 AM Response to Reply #29 |
62. I definitely don't believe him |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
31. I recommend criminal charges of gross negligence, and a lawsuit |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
32. Restaurants and other public places need to restrict guns. Nowadays almost anyone can carry legally |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Your profile says GA |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 08:49 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I'm sorry, but that's not your decision. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Homosexuals in restaurants don't put me in danger; guns do. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:18 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Exactly. The pro-gunners try to equate the right to carry to "civil rights." No even close. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:41 AM Response to Reply #44 |
66. Deleted message |
Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:40 AM Response to Reply #41 |
65. ..... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
43. Actually restaurants can restrict guns -- and should. If you don't like it go elsewhere. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #43 |
53. Are you suggesting TSA style pat downs before entering a restaurant? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
FailureToCommunicate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:21 PM Response to Reply #34 |
45. Meanwhile, back in fact based reality... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Legally carrying.. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
FailureToCommunicate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. I'm sure you think that's somehow relevant, but it don't mop up the carnage. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:50 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. It goes directly to your point (and the point of the person you responded to.) |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:38 AM Response to Reply #32 |
63. +1,000. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #32 |
89. When concealed carry first passed in Florida, numerous businesses had "no-gun" signs ... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
37. See? Guns DO shoot people! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
42. Guns don't kill people. Dipshits who carry guns into restaurants kill people. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
50. The careless idiot is not facing charges? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:09 PM Response to Reply #50 |
57. somewhere Plaxico Burress is texting "WTF" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Emit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 10:45 AM Response to Reply #50 |
68. The article says he could still face criminal charges |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #50 |
74. What law do you believe he broke? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Dogtown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #74 |
88. "Criminal negligence". |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
54. He didn't know there was a gun in his pocket???? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:50 PM Response to Reply #54 |
61. He should at least lose his license to carry. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
hollowdweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-27-11 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
58. So this guy didn't keep track of a gun of his for a year? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 02:45 AM Response to Original message |
67. bull. how do you not notice you have a gun in your pocket, they're heavy. i notice if i have a |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
69. Does He Go To Prison Like Plexico Burress? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #69 |
73. Plaxico had no permit to even own the gun, much less carry it concealed in NYC |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:13 AM Response to Reply #73 |
75. Way To Miss The Point |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #75 |
77. Malum prohibitum v. Malum in se - I think the guy who dropped his gun should be penalized |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 08:24 PM Response to Reply #77 |
91. As Do I |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
78. But hey!!! It's Texas. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
82. He's an idiot. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
dembotoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
85. i do hope she recovers.--never thought of a 38 as a derringer. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Chimichurri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
90. how could he not know? a gun is heavy - when I have a lipstick in my jacket |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 08:52 PM Response to Reply #90 |
92. Yeah, but that's probably .50 cal. lipstick |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
93. That's what happens when you live in a part of the country that treats guns like cell phones |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-28-11 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
94. How the hell do you not know you have a gun in your pocket? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Sat May 04th 2024, 05:01 AM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » General Discussion |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC