Bump and bang

Maybe we should start a new feature called “Stupid Gun Tricks.”

This story about a guy police say apparently was shot by his own gun when he hit a speed bump would be on my list. The bump slowed him down, but not in the way the traffic engineers intended. David Larkin told police the gun just went off as he pulled into traffic. He's expected to recover.

Let’s see, first you keep a loaded gun in the front seat, pointed at yourself – then go over a big bump and see what happens.

I’ll probably hear from a bunch of enthusiastic, Second Amendment protectionists who will question my patriotism (among other things) for writing this. But they’ll be wrong. I’m all for keeping the second amendment – and all the others – intact. I just don’t like all the gratuitous gun violence we see around us.

As the saying goes, Guns don’t kill people; mean or stupid people with guns kill people. Or if they are lucky they just shoot themselves when they hit a bump in the road.