Responsible Gun Ownership #6: Road Rage + Fire Arms

From Addicting Info:


Two men in the small town of Ionia, Michigan, identified as James Pullam, 43, and Robert Taylor, 56 on the town’s police department’s Facebook page, are now dead as a result of out of control road rage mixed with guns. Apparently, the two men got out of their vehicles and began to argue just before 7 PM Wednesday evening. Eventually, they both took out their guns. The rest, as they say, is history, and both men were pronounced dead at Sparrow Ionia Hospital on Thursday.


Witnesses at the scene are mortified. They report hearing seven or eight gunshots. Here is what one witness, Allen Daggett, had to say:

I think it’s crazy that a small town has to have two people die,. I feel sorry for the people that died. I feel sorry for the families and everyone’s [who is] acquainted with them.

Daggett reached the scene around the time just before first responders showed up. He also told 24 Hour News 8 that a local person tried to help before officials arrived. Perhaps the most shameful part of all is that the good Samaritan had to kick the men’s guns out of the way to be able to perform CPR.

Responsible Gun Ownership #5

From Connecticut Post:

STRATFORD -- Turns out a local man, who claimed he was the victim of a shooting by a Bridgeport gang, actually made poor choice of having a loaded gun in his waistband while out bicycling.

But Wendell Docteur's poor choice has turned out to be a prescription for jail time.

On Thursday, the 22-year-old Docteur, of Hollister Street, was charged with making a false statement, unlawful discharge of a firearm and failure to report a lost firearm.

Docteur, who later posted a $10,000 bond, didn't return calls for comment. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Superior Court on Sept. 5.

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Police said Docteur told them he had been out riding his bicycle on California Street when he was confronted by a half dozen men, dressed all in black with hooded sweatshirts covering their faces. 

Responsible Gun Ownership #4

From Anchorage Daily News: 

The first man was holding a handgun inside his apartment when the gun discharged and he was shot in the leg, police said. He dropped the gun and left, headed for the hospital. As the man left the apartment, witnesses told officers, they heard another shot from inside the apartment -- the second man had also been shot in the leg, police said. The circumstances surrounding the second shooting remain under investigation.

Responsible Gun Ownership #3

From the Virginian-Pilot: 

An 18-year-old man faces charges after police say he pointed a gun at two elementary school students Monday.

Shortly before 3 p.m., a bus was unloading students at the intersection of Brian Avenue and Rachel Street when two students told the driver that someone behind the bus had pointed a gun at them, police said in a news release. The person was in a blue pickup.

The driver returned the students to Pembroke Elementary and notified school authorities and police.

An investigation determined that a dispute had broken out between the 18-year-old and several students at a bus stop over a rebel flag in the pickup.

Responsible Gun Ownership #2

From Raw Story: 

A woman in Arizona has told police that she accidentally killed her husband with his own shotgun after he insisted that she pick it up even though she told him she was uncomfortable around guns.

The Daily Courier reported that Prescott Valley police responded to reports of a shooting on Gentle Winds Road Monday afternoon, where 56-year-old Gary Wingate was pronounced dead at the scene.

In a statement, the Prescott Valley Police Department said that Wingate’s 54-year-old wife had not been comfortable around firearms, but he asked her to pick up his 12-guage shotgun and hand it to him anyway. The weapon discharged while she was in the process of handing it to him, striking him in the upper torso.

“It seems like they meant to take [the shotgun] out this weekend on a trip and he wanted her to get more familiar with it,” Sgt. Brandon Bonney explained. 

Responsible Gun Ownership #1

I have definitely shown stories like this before, but I'm starting to number them now. We will see how far up the numbers go.