A 3-year old finds a loaded 9mm handgun under a couch cushion. Mom takes it away, removes the magazine and puts it back on the couch. 3-year old finds it again and shoots mom in the knee. She forgot to unload the round in the chamber.
Dumb as can be. First NO handgun should ever be where a child can reach it, loaded or otherwise. Second, if you don’t know how to properly unload a pistol, you should not have a handgun. Period.
The first rule my kids learned was that every gun is ALWAYS loaded. No exceptions. Even if you personally cleared the chamber - it is still loaded. I think that is an important concept. You don’t “treat it” like it is loaded - it IS loaded.
They also do not have the combination to the safe where all the guns (except one) are kept. My carry gun is always either on my person or locked in another safe.
Of course, this type of story will get the anti-gun folks in a lather. But there are already enough laws on the books - use them. This woman should not be allowed to own guns. She’s also guilty of a Federal charge of allowing a child under 14 to have access to the gun. Charge and convict her of a felony and she can’t own guns anymore. Problem solved.
Well, if you ever really needed an excuse not to move to South Korea, here’s a good one.
They just experienced a rather odd snowfall. It snowed yellow snow. Yes, really, yellow snow.
In the immortal words of Frank Zappa:
“And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow” *
(Actually, the yellow snow falls occasionally when yellow dust is picked up by the wind from desert regions in Northern China. It is apparently toxic, too. So Frank’s guidance still applies!)
*From Apostrophe (’), 1974
So, this guy’s brother dies and he decides to impersonate the brother to collect his pension. He goes merrily along this way for 26 years.
But then he repeatedly fails to pay a minor debt. The police catch him.
The say he collected at least $119,400 over the entire period. That works out to about $4,600 per year. Wow. Was it worth it?
A woman in Norway turned on her kitchen faucet and miracle of miracles, BEER poured forth!
Since the cost of beer in Norway is appallingly high, this must make her extremely popular!
(Actually, the bar downstairs somehow cross connected the pipes. They got water from their beer tap!)
Demonstrating the fundamental unseriousness of his politics yet again, Russ Feingold called for the censure of the President.
Oops. Seems nobody else among the Democrats wants to support him.
This is so obviously a ploy to endear himself to the far left that it calls into question his judgment.
Item: Congressional leaders (the gang of eight) were briefed on the NSA program. None raised objections. None have gone on record against the program since the NYT started blathering about it.
Item: What little case law there is on programs such as these seems to support the legality of the program.
Item: The “investigation” by Congress is not even remotely close to being complete.
Item: Several parties have brought legal action claiming they were targets but none have gone to trial yet.
Item: Not one single person has proven that any American was targeted or damaged by the program (perhaps the courts cited above MAY find something, but that has yet to be proven).
Russ Feingold wants to be President. By attempting to protect the rights of terrorists, I think he just shot himself in the foot. One can but hope.
They failed to shoot down the latest orbiter that NASA sent to visit….
The Reconnaissance Orbiter safely entered orbit around Mars after a 310 million mile journey. Controllers applauded when the orbiter emerged from behind the planet and reported a safe insertion.
All these robot probes are nice, but I for one would love to see a manned mission as soon as possible. We have been neglectful of our space program for too many years now.
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