MMS Friends

(the blog formerly known as Je ne sais quoi)

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

America's real gun problem - it's a Darwin thing

Failing to get out of their own line of fire:

--- Jonathan Rodriguez, 17, of Newark, Del., a home-invasion suspect who batted on a door with the butt of his handgun, which fired into his groin

--- Joshua Michael Short, 18, of Houston, got up from a table at Memorial City Mall food court and bumped the gun that was in his waistband, firing a round into his buttocks

--- Detroit police officer Michael Allen, 22, tried to cram his gun under the front seat of his car at a Canadian border-crossing, but it discharged into his leg.

Too many guns, too few people qualified to carry, even fewer good reasons to