Some facts about guns in the US

Update on Police Chief William McCollom..

A police chief in Georgia told a 911 dispatcher he accidentally shot his wife while moving a handgun that was in their bed, according to a recording released Friday.

Peachtree City police Chief William McCollom called for help at 4:17 a.m. New Year's Day and reported accidentally shooting his 58-year-old wife, Margaret. The Associated Press obtained a recording of the call Friday through an open records request. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shooting.

McCollom spoke calmly in the audio recording, telling a dispatcher he needed medical help for an accidental gunshot wound at his suburban home, about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta.

"Who shot her?" the dispatcher asked.

"Me," McCollom said. "The gun was in the bed, I went to move it, and I put it to the side and it went off."

During the call, McCollom said his wife was having difficulty breathing and appeared to be suffering from both internal and external bleeding. She was flown by helicopter to Atlanta Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition Thursday.

McCollom's wife can be heard crying in the background.

"Oh my God," the police chief said. "How the hell did this happen?"​

Resisting temptation to make the obvious jokes...

Who takes loaded guns to bed?

*Sigh*..

 

Finest and brightest...

A Kentucky police officer is recovering from non-life-threatening injuries after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach inside an elevator on Friday.

Video from the scene shows officer Darryl Jouett, a 25-year veteran of the Erlanger, Ky., police department, entering an elevator in Cincinnati with his wife, who was not identified. Jouett, who was off-duty and not in uniform, is seen talking to his wife and holding a box in one hand while apparently trying to adjust his pants or shirt.

At one point, Jouett pulls out his police-issued .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun, looks at it then attempts to put it back into his holster.

"He was transitioning the holster and transitioning the gun out of his holster. He was going to carry it in his hand as they walked to the car," Cincinnati Capt. Michael John told WLWT. "As he was pulling the gun from the holster, a round discharged, ricocheted in the elevator, struck him in the stomach."

Jouett fell, and his wife quickly made a phone call and then ran out of the elevator to get help.

He was taken to a local hospital, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. By Monday, Jouett was recovering at home but told WCPO that he had been instructed not to speak about the shooting.​

We should note that he tried hard to not drop what looked to be a cake box after he had been shot.. Fell to his knees and he was still gripping that box.

Must have been some cake.. He didn't even get his wife to hold the cake box while he tried to juggle around with his loaded gun.

Oh no, no, that would be too practical and smart. No, best to juggle that gun around with one hand, with the safety off. The alternative is to hand over the cake box. Can't have that...

But really, he couldn't walk to the car without a gun in his hand? Is this what people do?

 

I'm sad to say that there are places in the USA where civilization has broken down--in some of our inner cities that are characterized by poverty and crime. After dark, the gangs take over and the odds are indeed rather high that a person without a weapon might be robbed--or raped, if female. Or simply shot in the cross-fire of a gang war.

It goes without saying that most of these neighborhoods are Afro-American. This can be blamed almost entirely on the authorities using the War on Drugs as an excuse to arrest, prosecute and imprison black men. Every study indicates that the rates of drug use in the Euro-American and Afro-American communities are virtually identical; in fact, we smoke more grass than black people! Nonetheless, a black man is twice as likely to be arrested on drug charges than a white man; once arrested he's twice as likely to be prosecuted; and once prosecuted he's twice as likely to be sent to prison.

The result of this is that a large portion of America's black male population is in prison (they're only 12% of the general population but 50% of the prison population), leaving a community with few male role models. Once they get out they can't get a decent job with a prison record, so they become the drug dealers from whom we upstanding white folks get our stash. Those same guys can't move back in with their wives or girlfriends, because they will lose their welfare benefits if a convicted felon is living in their home.

As a result, a whole generation of young black men are growing up with no father figures, except for the well-dressed, gold-encrusted, Ferrari-driving drug dealers. Their mothers do their best, but a community without male role models is unlikely to produce a new generation of male role models. So the kids turn to gangs.

That said, there aren't very many places in the USA where a person can't safely walk to his car in the daylight, especially if he is obviously carrying a gun.

Walking with the gun in his hand? Either this guy was paranoid, or perhaps he owed his drug dealer a lot of money.

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An aside: you may be wondering why more of these single black women don't simply marry (or cohabit with) white men. We find them a little exotic, and due to their circumstances, both strong and wise. But many of them simply won't date white men. They even call women who do "traitors."

Can you imagine the uproar if there were a shortage of white men and the single white women were quoted saying, "We don't want to date or marry black men."

 

It's more likely the other way round, explaining why black women don't want to marry white men.

It's we who have "got rid of" the black men by putting so many of them in prison for selling drugs... to us.

 

"I'm not that surprised.."

Open carry activists in Texas...

We have all seen images of them, with their big military assault rifles and other long guns protesting in the streets and using eateries and department stores as a back drop for their open carry demands.

Because you know, everybody needs an assault rifle to shop at Target or to buy a packet of Oreos.

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Particularly useful on pensioner pay days..

Not content with scaring shoppers and diners by arriving in large groups, all armed, Open Carry groups are also renown for their police monitoring activities. With their big guns in tow. Being, for the majority, white, they are not shot at, even when they get violent and behave in a threatening manner towards the police during routine traffic stops and in the police attempting to perform their jobs. All while carrying their big assault rifles.

So it was only a matter of time before one of them killed someone.

Meet Veronica Dunnachie

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Second from the left.. She is an Open Carry Texas activist, known for, yes, swarming local businesses along with her well armed buddies.

She is one of the people who is tasked in, as the Open Carry Texas advocate on their website:

Condition Texans to feel safe around law-abiding citizens that choose to open carry​

So by going to shopping malls and eateries in large groups with their assault rifles, they are conditioning their fellow Texans to feel safe around them and their guns.

Except..

Police say a woman has been charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of her husband and step-daughter in the 2500 block of Edinburgh Street.

A search warrant affidavit states Veronica Dunnachie, 35, shot her husband, Russ Dunnachie, as well as his adult daughter Kimberly Wednesday afternoon. She then spoke with a friend on the phone who convinced her to drive to a mental health facility 11 miles away, Millwood Hospital, on North Cooper Street. That's where police arrested her without incident.​

A local school was also put into lockdown while the crime was still active.

Family and friends, as expected, expressed shock and disbelief. Facebook lit up about what had happened and how everyone was shocked. Well, sort of:

I knew her, I'm not that surprised.​

You're not that surprised?

So, Veronica had exhibited behaviour that meant that at least one person was not that surprised that she shot her husband and step daughter in the family home... And no one thought to say anything?

Others were more concerned about how this could look for the open carry movement.. Because two people shot dead by one of their own members, then putting a neighbourhood and school into lockdown, that is less of a concern?

So much for feeling safe around these so called law abiding citizens who choose to open carry, eh? And so much for the push to arm "the good guys".. Veronica featured quite prominently on the Open Carry facebook page:

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Momma may not have raised a victim, but she did raise a killer.

More disturbingly and again in Texas, a recent Bill is proposing that open carry teachers can now kill students to protect school property..

The Lone Star State already permits teachers to have firearms in the classroom, but H.B. 868, also known as the Teacher’s Protection Act, would authorize instructors to use “force or deadly force on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored event in defense of the educator’s person or in defense of students of the school that employs the educator.” Instructors would also have the right to use deadly force “in defense of property of the school that employs the educator.” Moreover, civil immunity would be granted to those who use deadly force, meaning they would not be liable for the injury or death of student.​

Having a teacher whip out his or her trusty sidearm to protect one's students from encroaching bears or Muslims or one of Texas's many, many other proud gun toters who may have momentarily lost one's mind is one thing, but instructing teachers that they are to use deadly force in defense of school property and that they don't have to worry about getting sued afterwards, now that adds a whole new layer o' Texas. Presumably this new law is needed because on occasion teachers have come across students defacing school lockers and have been previously unclear on whether or not that is sufficient grounds to shoot them in the head (answer: yes!) or because little Timmy (oh, who am I kidding, little Miguel) is preparing to carve his initials into a desk and only a teacher's well-placed bullet can stop the destruction of school property that is about to occur. (This also stands to make turn-in-your-textbooks day considerably more exciting. Better hope I don't see any penned-in mustaches in your history book, you little snots.)​

I know, I know, it's Texas...

But really.. This is madness..

 

Forrest Gump Joke Goes Here..

Things went wrong fast when a 3-year-old in Albuquerque found a gun in his pregnant mother’s purse Saturday afternoon. The toddler shot both of his parents after he grabbed a loaded 9mm handgun instead of an iPod.

Police say both parents have survived, Albuquerque Journal reports.

The incident happened around 2 p.m. at America’s Best Value Inn. One shot was fired by the boy; the bullet hit his father in the right buttock, which exited out of his hip and struck the mother in her right arm. She’s eight months pregnant, says Officer Simon Drobik of Albuquerque Police Department.
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One bullet.. One buttock and a shoulder..

One million dollar shot..

There needed to be a good kid with a gun in there. If only the 2 year old had had a gun, none of this would have happened.

 

This is, unfortunately not at all rare. People simply do not realize how clever, inventive and determined their children can be... at exactly the wrong time. While the most responsible gun owners (yes, I know that's an oxymoron) keep their weapons locked up so even a burglar would have a hard time getting at them, other people do not, so their children kill themselves, their siblings, their pets and even their parents far too often.

After all, it is children who figure out how to change the channel on the TV on the dresser in their room. They pull out the drawers and use them as a stairway. As they approach the top, quite off-center, it topples over on them.

 

Bang bang bang go the boobies!..

AN elected Republican official in the US Midwest fatally shot herself in an eye while trying to adjust her bra holster, investigators have found.

Christina Bond, 55, had died at her home at Lake Michigan on January 1 from what Michigan Department of Public Safety and Berrien County Sheriff’s Department inSt Joseph believed was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to an eye.

St Joseph Public Safety Department is awaiting a full autopsy report in the death of Bond, but director Mark Clapp yesterday released details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting to the Kalamazoo Gazette.

“She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn’t get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon,” said Clapp.​

Lesson One..

How to not be a boob with guns...

*Sigh*

Too soon.. Too soon..

 

Last statistic I saw said that more than half of Americans own guns.

Even among my own acquaintances, most of whom are university-educated professionals with demanding careers and, therefore, presumably not a lot of time to indulge in fantasies of the Wild West, I'm amazed at the number who have guns.

It seems that every individual is 100% certain that he is not like everyone else: 5 times as likely to kill himself, a friend, a family member, a confused stranger; or for the gun to be discovered by a child; or to be stolen or wrestled out of his hands and used in a lethal crime... than to actually use it against a human assailant or a predatory animal with both the intention and ability to cause great harm.

 

Of course there are criminal networks in the USA with large amounts of money, who can afford to buy guns. But the average street thug simply doesn't have the cash to buy one. An enormous percentage of the guns used in crimes are stolen from these paranoiacs masquerading as "law abiding citizens."

Legal gun owners are, indeed, the root of the problem. It's their guns that are used in tragic shootings.

Wrong. Street criminals vote Republican because the Republican Party is in the pocket of the National Rifle Assholes, and will make sure to maintain their easy access to guns.

Well actually, a large percentage of street criminals don't want the government to know where to find them, so they don't register to vote at all.