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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: lhprop1 on June 13, 2012, 03:28:37 PM
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Let's play a game called "Count the Broken Laws"
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/13/12202632-teen-shoots-gun-at-gas-tank-but-bullet-ricochets-and-kills-him?lite
A 17-year-old boy in south Texas died after firing a single shot that ricocheted off a butane tank and hit him in the head, the Monitor in McAllen, Texas, reported.
Israel Torres, along with his father and brother had been in the backyard of a home in McAllen, and all three had been drinking prior to the incident, authorities said.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said Torres fired the shot with a handgun after trying to persuade his girlfriend to to take a shot, the paper reported.
"All three are pretty drunk when someone pulls a .380-caliber, semi-automatic and shoots it into the backyard," Trevino told reporters. "The 17-year-old gets it and tells his girlfriend, here, look, pull the trigger."
When she refused, Torres pulled out the gun's magazine and fired a single round into the tank, the paper reported.
"He fires one time and shoots himself in the head," Trevino told The Monitor.
Torres' father initially told police they heard a gunshot and saw him fall to the ground. After some questioning, he told a different story, the paper reported.
Investigators didn't find any reason to suspect foul play and haven't arrested anyone, but are looking into whether the father bears any criminal responsibility.
The family has been in the U.S. illegally for at least several years, Trevino said.
Let's see:
1. In the country illegally
2. Illegally possessing a firearm
3. Filing a false police report
4. Child endangerment
5. Operating a firearm while drunk
6. Underage drinking
I know there's a few more broken laws in there.
And would a .380 even have enough oomph to penetrate a human skull upon ricochet?
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And you denigrate these fine, upstanding Democrat Party members, submitting them to shame and ridicule... It's already really tough to be a Dummycrap in the State of Texas.
This is simply a tragedy that could have been easily avoided by stricter gun laws, dontcha know.
Alternatively, I suppose one could look at this as an excellent example of practical Darwinism.
We have often noted that ignorance is curable while stupid is often fatal.
And the .380 could have hit him anyplace in the eye orbit or nasal area and have enough ooomph to have the reported result. We don't know how close he was standing to the propane tank. And, we don't know how soft this idiot's skull may have been.
Too many unknowns to really determine the how and why of it all. But, I think we can all agree on the outstanding outcome.
Crusader Rabbit.
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Let's play a game called "Count the Broken Laws"
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/13/12202632-teen-shoots-gun-at-gas-tank-but-bullet-ricochets-and-kills-him?lite
Let's see:
1. In the country illegally
2. Illegally possessing a firearm
3. Filing a false police report
4. Child endangerment
5. Operating a firearm while drunk
6. Underage drinking
I know there's a few more broken laws in there.
And would a .380 even have enough oomph to penetrate a human skull upon ricochet?
7. Shooting inside the city limits.
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Well, he did follow both Murphys' and Darwins' laws but it seems he broke a long standing social etiquette by not asking some one to hold his beer first!
;D
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Well, he did follow both Murphys' and Darwins' laws but it seems he broke a long standing social etiquette by not asking some one to hold his beer first!
;D
He's young, he'll learn.
Oh, well, maybe not. ;D
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He's young, he'll learn.
Oh, well, maybe not. ;D
LOL!
Not a huge loss to the Democrats, he wasn't old enough to vote-WAIT, what am I thinking they don't care. Hopefully he doesn't have any offspring or any on the way....
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LOL!
Not a huge loss to the Democrats, he wasn't old enough to vote-WAIT, what am I thinking they don't care. Hopefully he doesn't have any offspring or any on the way....
Really...you weren't thinking. ;) Now that he's dead he get's to vote for the next 50 to 100 years without missing an election...probably twice per election. That's a good 10 to 15% of the dumpalot vote in some places and the swing vote in others.