Guns doing great work at movie theatres

[jimmy the one]

Our title story is that of Cody Denault, the good guy who brought his gun with him into the "gun-free zone" of the Starplex Cinema at the Central Mall in Salina, Kansas, because reasons.
Cody is ex-military, you see, so he's trained, and you can trust him ... to make his own tourniquet.
Anyway, it was a foolish mistake, but Cody wants you to know that it's not an indicator of his skill with guns. He's totally awesome normally. So awesome, in fact, that he felt safe in ignoring the private property owner's posted firearms restrictions, not bothering with a holster, keeping a round chambered, and blindly fidgeting with his gun in his pocket. It's just one of those unavoidable accidents that in so doing he accidentally both disengaged the safety and somehow activated the trigger.
There was no real way—other than obeying the law with respect to the weapons prohibition, buying a holster that would have shielded the trigger, or just resisting the urge to finger his weapon in the theater—to have prevented this.
But at least he lived the dream and proved the theory: a good guy with a gun finally took out a theater shooter. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/30/1430765/-Good-guy-with-a-gun-takes-out-a-theater-shooter-GunFAIL-CLXIII?detail=email#

WARNING, here's a picture of cody's gunshot wound: http://concealednation.org/2015/10/cody-deneault-has-an-excuse-for-why-his-gun-went-off-in-a-movie-theater-the-other-day-it-was-an-accident-whoops/

30.SALINA, KS, 10/16/15: A man was transported to Salina Regional Health Center on Friday night after he apparently accidentally shot himself in the leg midway through a movie at Central Mall.

6.WINTER PARK, FL, 10/11/15: There's a policy in place to check all bags and purse for guns at the Village movie theater, but somehow a loaded gun ended up in the men's bathroom Sunday night. "Why would a police officer have his gun sitting around?" .. off-duty Osceola sheriff's deputy brought a gun to the theater, leaving the gun in a restroom stall.. It was a customer that found the gun and reported it to a theater employee.

Others: 2.MECOSTA CO., MI, 10/11/15: A man was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries after a gun accidentally discharged in the back of a golf cart and shot him

3.BUNKER HILL, IN, 10/11/15: A retired teacher remains hospitalized after he accidentally shot himself in the abdomen with a rifle. .. was attempting to stop two dogs from fighting with a .22 caliber rifle

7.ROCK HILL, SC, 10/11/15: A grandmother was released from the hospital after a 2-year-old boy shot her in the back..

20.SAN DIEGO, CA, 10/14/15: A bullet accidentally fired from inside a medical marijuana dispensary nearly hit two people in a hair salon...

21.BUNNELL, FL, 10/14/15: Shooting: A Bunnell man accidentally shot himself through the hand when he heard a strange noise in the house in the early morning hours and reached for his revolver, fearing burglars.

25.HILTON HEAD, SC, 10/14/15: A security guard for Palmetto Dunes was taken to the hospital Oct. 14 after he accidentally shot himself in the foot while demonstrating firearm safety for another security officer,

27.WOODLAND PARK, CO, 10/15/15: A man may have accidentally shot his son today while recreational shooting.

Yet ANOTHER 2 yr old Gun toddler on the loose: 29.CEDAR GROVE, WV, 10/16/15: A woman was accidentally shot in the leg by a two-year-old boy in Cedar Grove.

dick cheney wannabe: 31.FRANKLIN, NH, 10/16/15: state Fish and Game Dept has issued an emergency order, barring hunters from discharging firearms at pheasant stocking sites statewide, after one hunter shot and wounded another.. The order is effective the last two days that Fish and Game will be stocking ring-necked pheasants this year.. He said a Fish and Game stocking crew was still in the area after releasing birds, and witnessed the shooting. The victim suffered a non-life-threatening injury when he was hit in the side of the head by “a (shotgun) pellet or two,”

[HassleCat]

1. The link for the picture

His wound isn't that bad, and the picture is not gruesome. They cleaned him up pretty well before they snapped the photo.

Anyway, the link is for an article from "Concealed Nation," an organization that promoted the freedom to carry guns. They are mocking poor Cody because he made all kinds of dumb mistakes, mistakes Concealed Nation warns people never to make. They are very strong on promoting carrying your concealed handgun the correct way, safety first, getting appropriate training, and so on. Which is all fine, except they're pretending there is a portion of the population just too stupid, or just too deranged or maybe both stupid and deranged, to even own a gun, let alone carry it around in public. These are exactly the kind of people who are drawn to firearms, and envision themselves shooting a terrorist and saving lives at the shopping mall. Stuff like that.

That's the problem with firearms, particularly handguns and assault weapons. They fascinate some people, and not just the way stamps fascinate philatelists. I know a few "gun nuts," and most are just what you would call "enthusiasts." The spend too much time and money buying firearms, reloading their own ammunition, reading various publications, etc. But they're into guns the way people are into model trains or riding roller coasters, or any other hobby. But there is this one guy. He definitely sees himself dropping the Hammer of Righteousness on some evildoer someday. That's OK, you say, because he will never get the opportunity. Yes, but he will make the opportunity. He will make the necessary mental adjustments to transform some ordinary citizen into the al Qaida Avenger, and he will open fire. And there's nothing we can do, because our mental health system is broken, and we can't identify guys like him, and we probably couldn't deny him his guns anyway, because the NRA sticks up for people like him.