Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumWhy guns shouldn't be treated as tools
Bezotte said Kehres, a 1979 graduate of Monroe High School, was preparing to leave work at Epley Excavating & Geo Thermal at 5080 W. Allen Road near Fleming Road in Cohoctah Township when he reached above a workbench to turn off a radio. When he did this, he "somehow triggered" a loaded shotgun that was lying on a workbench, the sheriff said.
The shot struck Kehres in the lower chest and upper abdomen area, killing him, Bezotte noted.
Bezotte said the shotgun was long forgotten by the employees as it lay beneath a layer of tools.
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20120814/NEWS01/208140302/Death-shooting-accident
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)We should stop treating knives as tools?!?
How moronic.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Care to take another swing at the title of the OP?
Confusious
(8,317 posts)and lodges in your chest.
That would be a better analogy.
ileus
(15,396 posts)spin
(17,493 posts)I know of a guy who ran his own lawn care and tree trimming service for several years. One day he was cutting a limb off a tree in his own yard. When the limb fell after being cut it knocked him off the ladder. He landed on his concrete driveway and suffered a broken back. The chain saw landed an inch from his head and was still running as the safety had been bypassed. Fortunately he wasn't cut by the chainsaw and recovered from the back injury although he has two long rods in his back.
Is a lawn mower a tool? I know a man who was attempting to clear a clog of grass on a running lawn mower and almost lost a finger.
A firearm in a tool but tools can be extremely dangerous when misused.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)He's in the running. That's what you can get for listening to the scare-tactics & fear-mongering of the NRA.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Barely has the will to participate in his own threads much less own up to his deliberate misrepresentations.
gordianot
(15,232 posts)I have seen personally two people badly injured on table saws and a man lose his arm on a punch press. So far I have never seen an accidental shooting and realize it happens. As far as I am concerned many tools are extremly dangerous and should be handled as carefully as firearms.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Ripping a 2x4 with his table saw.
His main concern once they reattached it was that he was going to miss hunting season.
He learned to shoot left handed.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)Callisto32
(2,997 posts)It's just flat, wrong. Not opinion, wrong.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)It's in the playbook.
Webster Green
(13,905 posts)Sounds like the place was a real cluster-fuck, which is an accident waiting to happen.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,475 posts)GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Same thumb
Same day
ouch
Oneshooter
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