Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police

[jpak]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/gun-in-purse-starbucks_n_3268652.html

A Florida woman accidentally shot her friend in the leg while waiting in line at a Starbucks on Saturday.

Police say Pamela Beck and Amie Peterson were getting coffee at the Tyrone Square Mall in St. Petersburg when Beck moved to set her bags down in order to pay for her drink.

Her purse "hit the ground hard," St. Petersburg Police spokesman Mike Puetz told The Huffington Post, and a fully loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun that was in the bottom of the handbag fired, striking Peterson above the knee.

Beck told investigators that her father had given her the gun about a year ago, and she hadn't intended to bring it out in public. "She had forgotten about it," Puetz said.

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[Robb]

1. Starbucks. Again?

http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2011/12/28/news/19local_12-28-11.txt

[gejohnston]

3. that's the problem with

derringers. If you are going to have a .38, it should be a modern revolver with a transfer bar.

[ManiacJoe]

7. Exactly.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Yeah, December 2011 was real recent.

[ileus]

2. Proper holster always....I recommend Kydex with retention.

[gejohnston]

4. Raven or Jennings?

Those are the only .25s I can think of would flunk a drop test.

[Straw Man]

5. Drop test.

Those are the only .25s I can think of would flunk a drop test.

I'm pretty sure a Baby Browning wouldn't pass a drop test. I have one, and I would never carry it with a round in the chamber.

[ManiacJoe]

6. If there was no holster to protect the trigger,

something in the purse may have gotten into the trigger guard and "pulled" the trigger upon impact with the floor.

[rl6214]

8. Probably an older POS Raven .25.

I wouldn't trust one of those as far as I can throw it.

[jimmy the one]

9. MY dgu

Woman In Starbucks Drops Purse With Forgotten Gun, Shoots Friend In The Leg: St. Pete Police

This does cancel out 100 verbal defensive gun uses (dgu), you know.
So far nationwide this year it's 208,381 dgus vs 3,933,012 illicit gun uses, for a net negative of 3,724,631 ILLGU's.
I had a dgu myself last year; I was behind a guy overtaking him in broad daylight in a shopping center parking lot, fastwalking in my usual style & he musta thought I was creeping up behind him even tho I was like 20 ft away so he turned & started swinging his bag at me & coming closer.
I yelled out 'stay away or I'll get my gun' (white lie, I don't own one) & he backed off & started walking the other way from which we'd both come (odd).
So now I don't know who to report my dgu to, Kleck? Lott? nra? and since I don't own a gun I'm thinking of giving the dgu to my neighbor who owns a hunt rifle - gonna say I meant 'stay away or I'll get my neighbor's rifle'.
Doesnt' bother me that he might get credit for the dgu, I'm not a glory hound.
So add one to 208,381 makes it 208,382.

[mokawanis]

11. Guess she learned her lesson

too bad the dumb-fuck shot somebody else. Tell me again why I shouldn't worry about being around asshats who carry guns in public places.

[gejohnston]

12. because you are more likely to be shot by a cop

killed by a drunk driver
struck by lightening
win the lottery
assholes with tire chains who would rather rip you off instead of getting a job
Worrying about the extremely improbable is bad for your mental health.

[mokawanis]

13. I wonder if the woman with the bullet in her leg

thought it improbable she'd get shot when she walked into Starbucks. I'll worry about my mental health if I ever think I should walk around in public with a gun.

[friendly_iconoclast]

14. That's the beauty of choice: if you don't want to you don't have to...