Interesting. We’re on to the week of March 19th in our endless pursuit of catching up on GunFAIL, and for the first time in recent memory, the leading category for the week is not the number of people who accidentally shot themselves. Unfortunately, though, it’s the number of kids who were accidentally shot. Nineteen kids were accidentally injured by gunfire from March 19-26, and sixteen people accidentally shot themselves during that time. Of course, some of these accidents count under both categories. Worse still, some of them also count among the 15 fatalities from gun accidents, as well. In fact, six minors were killed in gun accidents during the week, ages 2, 4, 8, 11, 13 and 16.
Among the week’s more bizarre incidents—as our title indicates—we had an accidental discharge in a public library in Fairbanks, AK. And curiously, nobody was willing to take the rap for it. A library patron was shot, but nobody was willing to say they had the gun, or saw anyone else who did. We also had an aspiring gunsmith in Pierce Co., WA who accidentally injured himself when a shotgun he’d aspired to smith apparently aspired to be a bomb instead, and exploded in his hands.
In Deltona, FL, another super-dexterous 3-year-old somehow managed to fire one of those guns they’re not strong enough to pull the trigger on. Luckily, no one was hurt this time. Remarkable, given that car in which both the child and the gun had been left was in the local elementary school parking lot at dismissal time. And in Houston, TX, a man who believed he’d heard an intruder breaking into his home grabbed his gun and accidentally shot his girlfriend. She’ll be OK. Not sure about their relationship. And alas, no further word on any intruder.
There are several more remarkable stories below the fold, mixed in with the usual assortment of the mundane, the idiotic, and the tragic. I guess I’ll never get completely used to it.
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