Another Great Result From 'Bring Your Guns to Church Day'

Man Shoots Self and Wife

A great illustration of why bringing guns to church to prevent massacres by crazy people with guns is  stupid is the case in Tennessee where a man in a gun safety meeting eshot himself and his wife.

The 81-year-old man put the magazine back into the gun and put the gun back in the holster, Parks said. Later, while people were cleaning up, a church member who had missed the demonstration asked to see the weapon.

Just as he was about to show it to the church member, the man accidentally pulled the trigger without realizing the gun was loaded.

A bullet fired across the palm of the 81-year-old’s hand and toward his 80-year-old wife, who was sitting in a wheelchair next to him. It ripped through her lower left abdomen, out the right side of her abdomen, into her right forearm and out the backside of her forearm. The bullet then struck the wall and ricocheted, landing under the wife’s wheelchair, Parks said.

Panic swept the church. Most people weren’t aware of the second demonstration and — having just discussed mass shootings — assumed an active gunman entered the church.

The first thought was of course that a deranged gunman had entered the church and this could have been a tragedy as a SWAT team might have shot everyone. But no other harm came and no crime has been alleged, stupidity with guns being so common that all NRA members would be arrested were that so. And the end seems good, the couple will recover. And here's the final footnote to the story.

The husband and wife’s conditions have been stabilized as of Thursday evening, Parks said. The couple’s family has asked their names not yet be released.

Yeah, we wouldn't want our names out there either.