Sorry to hear that Jethro.
Lin
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jethro (J Foster) <tr3.4.me@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Kirk Hargreaves
> <khargreaves2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > One day my son was loading the gun into the trunk of her Toyota Avalon.
> > Somehow, he thought that the chamber was empty, and "somehow" the damn
> thing
> > went off while in his trunk. It blew a hole through the sheet metal and
> > scattered the shot against the cements steps, which were all chewed up as
> a
> > result. The blast just missed his dog as the dog was standing outside -
> and
> > fortunately, no one else was in the path of the guns release.
>
> I hope they realize how lucky they were!
>
> ANYONE handling a gun should attend a firearm safety course and be
> ever vigilant about safety.
>
> My aunt and uncle were moving out of the river bottoms during the
> Mississippi River flood of 1993, and my uncle had loaded the family
> guns into the trunk of the car. He was a farmer and outdoorsman that
> had been around guns all his life and often provided for his family
> via hunting, trapping and fishing. In the rush of trying to get
> everything they owned out of the way of the incoming flood waters he
> failed to check each and every gun to ensure they were unloaded. He
> hit a pothole in the gravel road and heard a loud noise. He turned to
> ask my aunt "what was that?" and found that she had been shot. She
> died the next day. He took his own life a year later still in grief
> of the accident.
>
> Sorry to be a "downer" but there it is. Be SAFE.
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