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1 posted on 08/19/2003 12:30:15 PM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Today's Darwin Award winner.
2 posted on 08/19/2003 12:32:45 PM PDT by SolutionsOnly
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To: chance33_98
Double Darwin, for following the car, stopping and then for shooting himself.

Following the car would have been considered inappropriate for an armed person anyway. Looks like he was looking for a fight.
3 posted on 08/19/2003 12:33:08 PM PDT by LaraCroft ('Bout time)
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To: chance33_98
Bummer...
4 posted on 08/19/2003 12:33:08 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (All power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat though.)
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To: chance33_98
Thank your watching this weeks episode of, "Stupid Gun Owner Tricks". Stay tuned next week as Al Gore peers down the barrel of his own rifle to see why it's jammed...
5 posted on 08/19/2003 12:33:24 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: chance33_98
Rule #2: Never allow the muzzle to cover anything you are not willing to destroy.

Rule #3: Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.

6 posted on 08/19/2003 12:34:22 PM PDT by Ed Straker
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To: chance33_98
I wonder if there is any reason that his wife didn't drive. I guess he assured her it was only a flesh wound.
7 posted on 08/19/2003 12:35:13 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: chance33_98
the car's driver and two male passengers appeared to be getting out to come toward his truck.

Apparently three Texas dim senators. <sarcasm

8 posted on 08/19/2003 12:36:05 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Clone Ann Coulter, the woman sent by God)
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To: chance33_98
"...was in his pickup truck with his wife..."

so I guess this is HER story?

9 posted on 08/19/2003 12:36:41 PM PDT by dogbrain ("Life is hard son. It's harder if you're stupid.")
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

10 posted on 08/19/2003 12:37:24 PM PDT by mhking
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To: chance33_98
Darwin winner for sure.
13 posted on 08/19/2003 12:54:16 PM PDT by b4its2late (The Road Map to Peace is looking more like a "Road Map to Pieces".)
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To: chance33_98
cocked the gun, and it fired

it fired? All by itself? Guns now have a life of their own?
14 posted on 08/19/2003 12:56:10 PM PDT by lelio
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To: chance33_98
If he had had a chance to confront the people in the car and ended up shooting one or both of them, he would have been found guilty of manslaughter, second-degree murder or some charge because he had "escalated" the situation. That's a no-no for concealed weapons permit holders. It's not made clear here, though, whether he had a CCW permit. It would not have mattered anyway. He done wrong.

This is not a circumstance in which you use deadly force.
17 posted on 08/19/2003 1:10:02 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: chance33_98
Stockton's wife told police her husband retrieved his pistol from the center console, cocked the gun, and it fired.

I hate it when my gun points itself at my head and goes off without me pulling the trigger.

18 posted on 08/19/2003 1:12:55 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: chance33_98
Oops, leg, not head, but the same idea.
19 posted on 08/19/2003 1:13:30 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: chance33_98
Doesn't give the type of gun. Conceivable he could have pulled the hammer back far enough to cause a discharge but not far enough to put it in full cock? "Went off half-cocked," so to speak. I know this wouldn't be possible with some guns, but again we don't know what he had.
20 posted on 08/19/2003 1:14:03 PM PDT by blau993 (Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
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To: chance33_98
Hmmm-m-m-, I smell something fishy here.
21 posted on 08/19/2003 1:19:00 PM PDT by basil
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Bang
34 posted on 08/19/2003 4:11:45 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed
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To: chance33_98
Serious research is being done so that one day these sad happenings will forever be a thing of the past.

http://www.roughwheelers.com/montego/gun_cam.html
36 posted on 08/19/2003 8:59:30 PM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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