Accidental Shooting News

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Child Shot In The Face While Snake Hunting
Posted on: 10:48 pm, May 23, 2012, by Matt Kroschel, updated on: 11:59pm, May 23, 2012
An 11-year-old boy was the victim of an apparent accidental shooting in Morgan County Wednesday evening. Morgan County Sheriff officials said the accident happened Wednesday around 8:00 PM in the woods behind a home on Union Hill Road. The boys were reportedly hunting snakes with a shotgun when one of them shot the other in the face ... “One boy is fighting for his life in the hospital and the other is left to deal with the reality that he shot his best friend,” Franklin told WHNT News 19 from the scene. The investigation continues. The names of the boys have not been released. http://whnt.com/2012/05/23/child-shot-in-the-face-while-snake-hunting/

Little Rock teen killed in accidental shooting
9:45 PM, May 24, 2012
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV)- Little Rock police say a teen was accidentally shot and killed at a home on Grand Street. Police say a 14-year-old was with a 13-year-old boy, playing with a gun. Sometime between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the gun went off and shot the 14-year-old. According to police, the 911 call didn't come in until just before 2:00 a.m. Thursday morning. At this point, police say the 13-year-old is not being charged ... Adults were allegedly in the home at the time of the shooting, but police are working to identify whom. The Department of Human Services is also involved because of the conditions of the home ... http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/211889/2/LRPD-investigating-overnight-homicide-of-teen

Teens firing rifles in Slidell woods accidentally shoot man
Updated: May 25, 2012 5:08 PM EDT
Slidell, La. Three Slidell area juveniles have been arrested and placed in the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center after they shot and injured a man outside his place of employment Thursday afternoon. So far. investigators with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office believe the shooting was accidental. The shooting happened around noon near a wooded area off Camp Villere Road in the Slidell area. Investigators say the three teens were shooting rifles in a wooded area when one of the bullets reportedly struck an employee of a nearby business who was standing outside. The man who worked at Friction Stir Link suffered a gunshot wound to his upper back. He remains at a south shore hospital, and his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Following the shooting, deputies were dispatched to the scene and immediately began canvassing the area. A witness reported to one of the deputies that he saw three juveniles carrying two rifles enter a trail into a wooded area near his home. The three juveniles were located at a home near the other end of the trail. Investigators interviewed the three boys, aged 12, 13 and 15, in the presence of their parents. All three admitted to firing a .22 caliber rifle in the direction of the business. Last night, the three boys were transported to the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center and each booked with one count of Negligent Injuring and one count of Illegal Use of Weapons ... http://www.fox8live.com/story/18627425/3

Apple Valley Man Pleads Guilty to Accidentally Shooting, Killing Friend
Derrick Wallace Dahl pleaded guilty this week after saying in December that there was not enough probable cause against him.
By Betsy Sundquist and Allison Wickler
The Apple Valley man charged with manslaughter after shooting his friend in the head with a gun he thought was unloaded pleaded guilty in Dakota County Court this week. Derrick Wallace Dahl, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday in the shooting death of Benjamin Allen Hanson, 22, of Welch, MN. Dahl's sentencing is scheduled for July. Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom told the Pioneer Press that Dahl's sentence would be 90 days in jail, 10 years' probation and a stayed prison sentence of four years—less than guidelines stipulate. According to the criminal complaint, Burnsville police were called to a home on East Crystal Lake Road on July 23, 2011, on a report of an accidental shooting. The caller told police that the victim had been shot in the head and was unconscious, but breathing ...http://burnsville.patch.com/articles/apple-valley-man-pleads-guilty-to-accidentally-shooting-killing-friend

Chesterfield accidental shooting
2:18 PM, May 25, 2012
Chesterfield, MO (KSDK) - A man working at a Chesterfield business accidentally grazed himself Friday after the gun he brought to show off to coworkers accidentally discharged. According to Captain Steve Lewis, a spokesman for the Chesterfield Police Department, police received a call around noon for an accidental shooting in the 500 block of Trade Center Boulevard ... http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/321400/3/Chesterfield-accidental-shooting-

Victim of accidental shooting is recovering well, police report
By Karen Robinson
Published:May 25, 2012, 12:00 AM
Updated: May 25, 2012, 6:42 AM
The 18-year-old Eden man who was wounded in an accidental shooting earlier this week is doing well, according to Eden Police Lt. John H. McCarthy ... Police said the man’s 21-year-old brother accidentally discharged a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun ... http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/southern-erie/article872816.ece

Sister: Williston shooting was accidental
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:00 am
WILLISTON (AP) — The sister of a Williston man accused of killing his wife over the weekend said the shooting was accidental. Josh House, 28, is charged with felony manslaughter and reckless endangerment in the Saturday shooting death of Chantel House, 24. He posted bond Monday and was released from jail. He is due in court June 12. Josh House’s sister, Suzie House, said that the shooting was a “terrible accident” that happened when her brother was cleaning a gun and it accidentally fired. The bullet hit Chantel House and she was pronounced dead at a hospital. The couple moved from Oregon with their 2- and 6-year-old sons earlier this year for employment. They had been married for nearly seven years and were avid shooting hobbyists, Suzie House said ... http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/sister-williston-shooting-was-accidental/article_99cd61e2-a55d-11e1-92be-0019bb2963f4.html

Judge: Ohio teen to be tried as adult in school shooting that killed 3 students, hurt others
By Associated Press, Published: May 24
CHARDON, Ohio — A 17-year-old will be tried as an adult in the school shooting deaths of three students, a juvenile court judge ruled Thursday after hearing a sheriff’s deputy describe how the teen wore a T-shirt with the word “Killer” and admitted shooting people. T.J. Lane admitted firing at students sitting at a cafeteria table at Chardon High School east of Cleveland on Feb. 27, killing three and seriously wounding two, authorities say. Lane, with his grandparents and the relatives of victims sitting apart in court, swallowed hard and blinked as Geauga County Juvenile Court Judge Timothy Grendell announced that he should be tried as an adult. Lane could face life in prison if he’s convicted. Minors are not eligible for the death penalty in Ohio. Had his case been routed to juvenile court, the maximum possible penalty would have kept him jailed until he turned 21 ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/17-year-old-could-face-trial-in-adult-court-in-ohio-school-shootings-that-killed-3-students/2012/05/24/gJQA6s3gmU_story.html

Male Shoots Himself While Looking In Trunk & Dies At Hospital
Ceramic Drive Accidental Shooting
By: Jason Mays | NBC4
Published: May 24, 2012
Updated: May 24, 2012 - 7:55 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A male accidentally shoots himself while looking for something in the trunk of his car and dies a short time later. At about 6:17 a.m. Thursday, Columbus police and EMS were dispatched to a home in the 200 block of Ceramic Drive on a report of a shooting. Medics found a male shooting victim. He was taken to Riverside Methodist Hospital in arrest. Doctors pronounced him dead a short time later. Officers told NBC4 the male apparently accidentally shot himself while searching in the truck of his car ... http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/may/24/4/police-man-accidentally-shot-himself-rummaging-thr-ar-1047976/

Updated: 12:27 PM May 24, 2012
Va. Woman Gets 18 months for Accidental Shooting
HENRICO, Va (AP) A Henrico County woman has been sentenced in the fatal shooting of a man while the two played with a gun. Twenty -two-year-old Sharday Pleasants pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in February. She told police she and 19-year-old Samuel Clarke II took turns pulling the trigger of a .38--caliber revolver on Aug. 1, 2011. She said she didn't know the gun was loaded. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Pleasants was sentenced Wednesday in Henrico County Circuit Court to 18 months in prison ... http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/153618075.html

[RayTy]

1. yet in the garbage dump we live in

it seems wanting guns gone like sane nations gets shouted down by all, even on this board.

[oneshooter]

3. And how would you go about getting "guns gone" from this "garbage dump" you live in?

[Logical]

40. They never have an answer to that!

[Hoyt]

43. Well, we can start by turning off the spigots rather than opening

them wider for more guns that we'll have to deal with sooner or later.

[Logical]

44. Once again, for like the 5th time to you, HOW? List the steps!

[SGMRTDARMY]

45. I too would like to know how he would do this.

[gejohnston]

7. those "sane nations"

don't have guns gone. Some have as many households with guns.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. who exactly is "we"?

and where do YOU live?

[Callisto32]

28. Guns gone....

What a Luddite's position.....

[DanTex]

31. That's because this is the gungeon.

If you haven't been around DU long, you should probably know that the opinions posted in the gungeon are very different from those of average progressives or DU members. The powers that be keep the guns discussion here in order to prevent the right-wing NRA talking points from polluting GD.

So the pro-gunners, who are often single-issue extremists, congregate in here. Of course, there are also some pro-gun-control progressives that post here regularly, but the NRA crowd is in the majority.

[slackmaster]

2. Now the good news: Statistics for injuries and deaths from accidental shootings in the USA

Accidental shootings are rare events, and are becoming rarer.

Injuries, 2001 - 2010

Year Number Population Rate

2001 17,696 284,968,955 6.21
2002 17,579 287,625,193 6.11
2003 18,941 290,107,933 6.53
2004 16,555 292,805,298 5.65
2005 15,388 295,516,599 5.21
2006 14,678 298,379,912 4.92
2007 15,698 301,231,207 5.21
2008 17,215 304,093,966 5.66
2009 18,610 306,771,529 6.07
2010 14,161 308,745,538 4.59

Deaths, 1999 - 2009

Year Number Population Rate

1999 824 279,040,181 0.30
2000 776 281,421,906 0.28
2001 802 285,081,556 0.28
2002 762 287,803,914 0.26
2003 730 290,326,418 0.25
2004 649 293,045,739 0.22
2005 789 295,753,151 0.27
2006 642 298,593,212 0.22
2007 613 301,579,895 0.20
2008 592 304,374,846 0.19
2009 554 307,006,550 0.18

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html

[Hoyt]

5. Rare - "needing" a gun in public, yet you guys still can't leave home without one.

[slackmaster]

6. Another outright lie by Hoyt. I've posted MANY times that I don't carry a gun.

Clearly the term "you guys" was meant to include me.

[Meiko]

8. Never leave home without one

sometimes two.....but who is going to know.

[DonP]

12. Not allowed to carry in our state

Perhaps you should be a little more specific with the "you guys" phrasing since you obviously don't know who is carrying and who isn't.

Just like criminals don't know either.

[Simo 1939_1940]

25. I don't carry either. (But of course I live in a "corrupt-issue" part of California.....

.......where only the well-connected and/or wealthy are issued permits.)

[PavePusher]

26. BEANS!!

IN YOUR PANTS!!

[beevul]

41. I dont carry a gun, so who exactly does "you guys" refer to? N/T

[sarisataka]

42. I do carry most of the time

Currently I do not carry because I am taking oxycodone while in recovery. Happy pills and guns are a bad mix.

I also have over one million logged miles without an accident. I still check my mirrors and put on a seat belt every time I drive. You never know if THIS is the day you need it.

[bongbong]

9. No thanks to guns

[GreenStormCloud]

13. I respect your right to that choice. Please respect my right to my choice to be armed. N/T

[bongbong]

17. OK

Then I'm sure you don't mind if I do 180 MPH in front of your house.

[oneshooter]

18. I don't mind at all. Be real careful of the dead end at the crossroad,

gravel roads don't stop to fast.

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[friendly_iconoclast]

19. Messed with your carefully nutured sense of anhedionia, did we?

Good!

[rl6214]

24. That's not legal, my guns are.

Try again

[bongbong]

33. Legal?

I'll just start an organization that falsely uses the Constitution, as the NRA does with guns, to shove laws allowing 180 MPH driving down America's throat.

[rl6214]

39. When you get that done be sure to let us know

Put that in your bong and smoke it

[PavePusher]

27. "One of these things is not like the other" n/t

[slackmaster]

29. That's some pretty serious hypocrisy on display, bongbong. I wonder if you can even see it.

[bongbong]

34. Not at all

Tell me know my right to drive as fast as I want isn't the same as the want of gun-religionists to have all the guns the NRA lobbies for, err, I mean, they want.

[slackmaster]

36. OK

Your fantasy about having a right to drive as fast as you want to, or even at all, is unrelated to the topic of this thread, which is the ongoing decline in the rate of accidental shootings.

[GreenStormCloud]

30. That would be dangerous as it is a city street.

I am not dangerous to othesr with my gun, unless they show themselves as directly dangerous to me.

[bongbong]

32. Same here

I'm not dangerous driving at 180 MPH, unless somebody else does something stupid!

[DanTex]

35. In that spirit, I think I'm gonna drop some landmines in my front yard.

I don't know about you, but I just don't feel safe without a minefield! But don't worry, it's no threat to anyone, as long as they don't step on my property.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

48. Might I suggest...

...the M18A1 Claymore? They're directional and easily triggered by remote as opposed to a pressure switch. Pressure activated mines fall into the booby trap category. They're illegal.

Plus there's a bit of a psychological benefit from that "front toward enemy" marking, don't you think?

[GreenStormCloud]

38. On my street, at 180 mph, you would become airborne and end up in a cow pasture.

I'm not joking about the cow pasture. One hundred feet past my house the street ends and a cow pasture starts. At the other end, one mile away from me is the Waste Disposal Landfill. Either way your ending won't be fun for you.

The bumps one the street, that aren't noticable at 30 mph, would become jump ramps at high speed.

Face it. Your side is losing. So far this year there have been 27+ NRA backed laws passed and signed, versus none for your side.

[SGMRTDARMY]

46. Go ahead and do 180 MPH in front of my house.

And after the Sheriff's Deputy that lives 3 houses up from me gets done taking you to jail and your vehicle is impounded, I'll have a good laugh.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

47. BTW....

...my street is less than a quarter of a mile long. The only things that would be doing 180 in front of my house will be going down and stopping abruptly.

[Hoyt]

4. Good work.

[ileus]

10. My two kids and I shot 22's yesterday evening....no NDs or ADs.

[GreenStormCloud]

11. Out of a nation of 310 million some few accidents will happen.

Even walking has accidents that are sometimes fatal. 1,138 deaths from walking accidents, 613 deaths from firearms accidents. Walking is obviously dangerous and should be either banned or tightly regulated by your logic. Freedom does come with a price, but I will take freedom.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. clearly...

...we need to shoot more and walk less.

[ManiacJoe]

16. It is a shame that the OP did not want to comment on the current events.

In that case, why bother to post them?

[friendly_iconoclast]

20. It was a feel-bad OP, and working as intended until slackmaster dug up the stats.

As the disinterested observer will note, the restrictionistas take little or no pleasure in any good news about gun crime or casualties.
Which is only natural, as such news puts a damper on all their moral posturing and panic-mongering...

[DonP]

21. Just the latest incarnation of "Guns in the News"

This is the fourth or fifth version of a poster that does a google search and then a "cut and paste" with no comment on any news item about a crime with a gun. It requires you to conflate law abiding gun owners with criminals and is supposed to inspire a sense of shame for owning a gun or defending the 2nd amendment.

It never works and after a week or two they get tired of it and go away when it doesn't get the desired results. Usually someone starts posting "gun used to save a life" stories.

[ManiacJoe]

37. Just trying to shame them like we did on DU2.

[Straw Man]

22. One isn't an accidental shooting...

...but a legal update in the case of an intentional shooting from February.

The best remedy for the actual accidents, short of removal of all firearms from citizen hands through the intercession of specially trained unicorns, is safety training. The organization that does more of that than any other group in the world is the bad old NRA. I'm a member. I hate their politics, but I love their training programs. I'm an instructor, as a matter of fact, and I'll be giving two Home Firearms Safety courses next month.

Let's keep those numbers going down. Y'all could support the NRA with a donation if you wish -- they're making much more of a positive contribution toward the reduction of firearms accidents than Brady, VPC, et al. Just make sure you're not donating to the NRA-ILA -- them's the political folks.

[rl6214]

23. You trying to take the google dump job away from some of our other posters here?

They're gonna get mad at you