BEND, Ore. - 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.Because in an NRA World, we all face the possibility of getting a little lead with our Big Mac when the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun and an armed society is a polite society.
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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.
Make sure you whisper those words into your loved one's ear as they drift off for eternity, their lungs full of blood because the polite good guy dropped his gun and had an accidental discharge.
It's the price we all potentially pay in our NRA World.
Apple pie, McDonald's and guns. God Bless America.
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I carried my gun into McDonald's yesterday with my family, as my children enjoyed their most excellent Reece's Pieces McFlurries. There were other families with kids there, and everyone had a great time. Afterwards we rode our bicycles to a playground park filled with kids, where I also had my gun. Shockingly, nobody was shot. Nor was anyone hit by lightning.
good to know that gun toting 'muricans are contributing to their children's and their own early ends thru bad diets..if the accidental discharges don't get em, diabetes will. i see a gun free world right around the corner..
"gun toting 'muricans"
For what argumentative purpose do you mock the speech patterns of fellow citizens? Especially when your own comment is rife with spelling and grammar errors?
"thru (sic) bad diets.."
My children are vegetarian. Ice cream in moderation will do them no harm, thank you.
"if the accidental discharges don't get em, diabetes will."
You are truly a fine human being, a real mensch.
Rick: You're like a lounge singer who knows just one song....and he sings it over and over and over every night. You made your point a long time ago. You're now preaching to the choir. What you write here ain't gonna change a thing.
People make mistakes...Greyhound bus drivers crash their buses, experienced pilots crash their planes and we hear that it was pilot error,...hell, even air traffic controllers fall asleep on the job. ;)Life is not without risks.
Accidents also happen with weapons...even in the hands of professionals:
Miami Herald, Feb. 8, 2003-
Coral Gables police Chief Jim Skinner, under departmental investigation for two accidental gun discharge episodes within a year, met Friday evening with City Manager David Brown. The topic: Skinner's impending departure. Sources say Skinner is set to resign, and it could be announced next week.
Skinner, 54, became the City Beautiful's chief in 1997 after a 27-year career with the Omaha, Neb. PD, seven as chief. Last Wednesday, he accidentally fired his Glock in a second-floor police station restroom, striking a toilet. Word is he was re-holstering the semiautomatic pistol when it discharged. The bullet supposedly blew a hole through the holster and his pants leg before hitting the commode. And, in July 2002, Skinner was sticking his Glock in a locker at an L.A. Fitness Sports Club in Kendall when it went off - twice.
Last month, the city's police union gave Skinner a no-confidence vote after a survey showed low morale in the 160-plus member force.
The day after the toilet shooting, cops set up a ``memorial'' near the unarmed toilet. Mourners placed a toilet seat - with a bouquet of multicolored flowers in the center - outside the restroom hallway, along with a condolence sign: ``RIP'' (Rest in Peace).
So, instead of your incessant, ponderous rants - which I've avoided commenting on until now - why not share with your readers what you would do to end gun violence in America?
Bill, I let you do your incessant critiques of some news anchor's wardrobe and remain quiet during your ponderous and overwrought proofreads of the Herald so do me a solid and let me do what I want to do on my blog without sticking your nose in it, alright?
I appreciate your concern. Thanks for reading. And I do like your idea of a post with my ideas on gun safety....I just might do one.
In the meantime, I think this lounge singer is going to sing, "Hit the Road, Jack."
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Jewess Marxman: "For what argumentative purpose do you mock the speech patterns of fellow citizens?"
It's called "stereotyping," a rather low-brow if somewhat amusing means to deride and demean. You should recognize the technique, as you deploy it often when you allude to Rick's "move-on.org handlers."
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