Strib, today -
Man accidentally shoots self in leg while at corn pit in Brooklyn Park
The discharge of his handgun "does not affect his permit to carry," said police Inspector Elliot Faust.The single gunshot occurred Saturday at the Twin Cities Maze, 109th Avenue N. and Hwy. 169, police said. The gun went off while the man was bending over in a tent-covered corn pit that people play in, police Inspector Elliot Faust said.
The 38-year-old man from Circle Pines called 911 to report what happened before he was taken to a hospital for treatment of his wound, Faust said. The gunfire did not strike anyone else, and police were withholding his name because they consider him a victim.
Faust said the man did have a government-issued permit to carry a firearm in public and was not doing anything illegal.
Okay, yeah, and JIm Schultz does have a license to practice law and would not be doing anything illegal if heading for a courthouse to do a jury trial, rules of evidence being what they are and admissability being important, while it is near impossible to imagine Schultz coming up with anything as creative as, "If the glove don't fit you've got to acquit," and delivering a zinger with aplomb instead of like a talking automaton.
38 years old, the gunshot guy. About the same age as Schultz, this guy, bending over and - bang!
Realize what this guy bending over and shooting himself in the leg means. And this should have more coverage in the know-the-fuck-what-you-are-doing-before-being-a-danger-to-others sense. I am no firearms specialist, but this fellow had to have been carrying a firearm in a crowded public place with a round chambered and the safety off for this to have happened, and that's plain ignorant.
Inexperienced.
So - back to the headline question.