Accidental Shooting In Texas

[lame54]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Man-who-accidentally-shot-woman-in-restaurant-Im-totally-distraught--114619149.html
by Courtney Zubowski/11 News
khou.com
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:54 PM
Updated Tuesday, Jan 25 at 10:50 PM

KINGWOOD, Texas -- A Kingwood man who accidentally shot an elderly woman when his gun dropped from his coat pocket says he's totally distraught after the incident.
It happened as the man (who did not want to be identified) was having dinner on Jan. 13 at Raffa’s in the 1600 block of W. Lake Houston Pkwy.

He said he had on a jacket that he hadn’t worn in a year. He said he didn’t know it had his .38 caliber derringer gun in its pocket.
The gun ended up falling out of his pocket.

“Everybody looked around. There was a big explosion in the restaurant. No one knew what it was. Then, the person who I was dining with saw the derringer under my seat,” he said.
The explosion was his gun going off as it hit the floor.

Police said a bullet hit another diner, Diana Barker, in the buttocks and continued through her hip, into her abdomen and ended at the right side of her chest.
Paramedics rushed the 71-year-old grandmother to Ben Taub Hospital...

[lame54]

1. .

[MineralMan]

2. He'll be more than 'distraught' after the lawsuit.

Uff da!

[dmallind]

3. There's another gun law I *would* like to see.

No handgun should ever "go off" when dropped, or when kept in a pocket. Very very few do, but derringers are oftn this dangerous. A law requiring any carry gun to have a trigger guard would be a genuine safety measure that would not limit any rights - there are plenty of tiny light guns that have a guard and are therefore far less likely to fire wiithout the owner's intent.

[lame54]

4. People don't kill - pockets do

[dmallind]

5. Well - the pockets of stupid people possibly.

Sometimes I think decades of safety training (not just for guns, but generic training that simply focuses on thinking "what could go wrong here?") have all been for naught. I mean: open trigger, loose container that frequently contains other objects. Hmmm... not a difficult one.