Monday, November 12, 2012

Accidental Shootings in South Carolina - Three of Them - Zero Arrests

Local news reports
Two people accidentally shot themselves in southern Beaufort County Saturday, while a third shot a hole in the floor of a Bluffton business Sunday, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies responded to a report of a shooting at Simmons Fish Camp on Hilton Head Island at 3 a.m. Saturday, where a man had allegedly shot himself in the calf. 

On Saturday evening, a 70-year-old man shot himself in the left hand while cleaning a .22-caliber revolver at his Sun City home. His wife reported the incident. The injured man's wife told deputies he had said the revolver was jammed before she heard a loud bang; deputies saw the spent cartridge was still lodged in the gun and could not be removed, the report said. 

Rounding out the weekend of accidental shootings, a manager at Montana's Grizzly Bar on Kitties Landing Road in Bluffton reported a customer had shot a hole in the floor at about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday. According to the report, the customer had reached in his pocket to pay and accidentally discharged a gun. No one was injured and the customer left before the manager could get any information.
In spite of the pro-gun insistence that gun negligence is rare, the news media have begun reporting these incidents like they report Chicago shootings, lumping them altogether.

The problem is that these three negligent gun owners were probably not making their first mistake ever, and thanks to the nonchalance with which these acts are treated, they won't be the last either.

There is a solution.

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