Posted on 08/19/2008 9:00:18 AM PDT by WilliamReading
A 23-year-old man's attempt to show his girlfriend a pistol ended in tragedy Monday night when the gun fired, killing her, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
Averyell Davis, 23, was shot in the abdomen after the handgun her boyfriend was handling went off, said sheriff's spokesman Col. John Fortunato. Curtis C. Murray has been arrested and booked with one count of negligent homicide.
The couple were in the living room of their home in the 500 block of Behrman Highway in Gretna at about 10:15 p.m. when the gun discharged, Fortunato said. Authorities did not specify what caused the gun to fire.
Emergency responders arrived at the couple's home, where Davis' mother met them and told them that her daughter was shot inside the home.
In the living room, they found Davis lying on the floor with a wounded abdomen.
Responders transported her to Ochsner Medical Center, and on the way there, she told authorities that her boyfriend accidentally shot her, according to Fortunato.
Davis died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
Lt. Don English, the homicide detective handling the case, later booked Murray with the criminal charge at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center.
Even though the victim claimed it was an accident, "our investigation showed negligence on (Murray's) part, and that's why he was charged," Fortunato said.
Negligent homicide defendants can face up to 5 years in prison, a fine up to $5,000, or both, according to state law.
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You sure put the blame in the right place. Where I grew up, there were some young people who joked around shooting at each other or holding unloaded guns to their heads and pulling the trigger. Like it was all a big joke. Ha ha. Needless to say, I was pro-legislation for a long time. It took a lot of reading and listening and thinking the issue through before I finally came around.
Pulling the trigger is the cause 99.999% of the time.
dang near every anti-2A-troll talkin point in one post...
It's a classic.
I call BS
I chuckle everytime I think about it. Anybody got a link?
Link at post 49.
Thanks! It’s a keeper.
The guy would be a shoo in as the general in charge of generals in the Obama-lama-ding-dong army.
LOL!
Killed her while showing her his gun. He must be hung.
A 23-year-old man’s attempt to show his girlfriend a pistol ended in tragedy Monday night when he negligently pulled the trigger, killing her, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
There, fixed
Shouldn’t we require all gun owners to pass a gun safety class?
No license or government registration is required to:
Own a car, even if a juvenile.
Transport a car, even across state lines, openly or concealed, fueled or not.
Operate a car on private property.
Modify a car to make it more powerful or lethal.
Sell a car to anyone, anywhere.
Buy a car.
Etc.
When you treat guns as freely as you do cars (requiring only that they be registered for use on taxpayer-funded shooting ranges, and providing such ranges convenient to every soul on the nation) then get back to me.
I always thought shooting a gun was more dangerous than driving a car. My bad.
To me it is only common sense. Of course others will use the “slippery slope” argument . . . “if they require us to take gun training, then they will take all of our guns away” . .. . That just doesn’t follow.
Why doesn’t the US Army just hand out M-16s to the soldiers and let them figure out for themselves how to shoot them? Why does the Army train and test the soldiers?
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All of the above comes back to one point: That we supposedly need more government control of firearms.
That goes against what the founders of our great country envisioned. The entire point of the second amendment is to allow the citizens of this country the ability to defend themselves from a government that has acquired too much power.
Have you ever fired a gun?
I always thought shooting a gun was more dangerous than driving a car. My bad.
Shooting a gun is one of the safest activities around, if you don’t point it at anything that you don’t want to harm.
Driving a car carries inherent risks that can not be eliminated, compared to shooting.
“...Shouldn’t we require all gun owners to pass a gun safety class? If we have to pass a driving test to get a drivers license, why not one for owning a handgun or rifle?..”
Got news for ya there, WilliamReading; NO ONE is going to REQUIRE me to do anything when it comes to exercising my RIGHT.
Who’s this “WE” you’re talking about? You and who else?
This moron had his finger on the trigger, period. Guns don’t “just go off”. He killed his girlfriend because he was stupid and probably being a smartass. Who knows exactly what happened. Either way, he should do some time. As was said earlier, it culls the pack of stupid jackasses. Tragic? Sure. Preventable? Absolutely. Stupid? Yep. Paying for it for the rest of his life, every time he looks in the mirror? Absolutely. Tragic all around. But preventable nonetheless.
My kids have been shooting since they were five. Number of accidental discharges: 0
Don’t know you out here, haven’t seen you post before, but you come on here and post a stupid inflammatory comment like that, well, be prepared for a whole world of invective.
“....To me it is only common sense. Of course others will use the “slippery slope” argument . . . “if they require us to take gun training, then they will take all of our guns away” . .. . That just doesn’t follow. Why doesn’t the US Army just hand out M-16s to the soldiers and let them figure out for themselves how to shoot them? Why does the Army train and test the soldiers?.....”
The “common sense” and “slippery slope” remarks sound very suspiciously like something an agenda-driven a troll would say. Maybe I’m wrong, but your posting that particular article, and making those particular remarks combined with your 5-27-08 signup date, well, let’s just say it stinks a little bit.
“....That just doesn’t follow....”
Well, it absolutely follows, as even a casual perusal of the history of gun control will show that EVERYWHERE an UNOPPOSED State clamped down on civilian gun ownership, registration and confiscation followed - but I suspect you already know this...only an ignorant fool would not take advantage of the wealth of information that the Internet provides on the subject of gun control and “slippery slopes” before posting a comment like that. See Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Che, Hugo Chaevez, Castro, Lenin, Mugabe, Amin, Hussein....all good little Komrades that were out to make society safer by taking away evil guns “for the common good”.
“.....Army...test and train..”
Because, as anyone who has ever been through the Service (especially combat infantry) will tell you, recruits are trained to move, think, act, and fight like a single unit.
Many recruits have NEVER been exposed to firearms before, and have to be trained. At one time in this country, that wasn’t true of the majority of folks, but it is now, thanks to all the brainwashing that the liberal socialists have accomplished with their negative attitude towards my Constitutional, civil, and Basic Human RIGHT.
And just for the record, there’s a whole lot more of “WE” firearm-owning civilians than the “WE” that would try to “require” us to do ANYTHING...a fact which, I’m sure, keeps certain people of a certain political party with a failed ideology awake at nights in perpetual panty-wetting fear...
No, I think you know exactly what you can do with your “common sense” “Slippery slope” stuff...and where you can put it.
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