Wrong lesson: Gun safety class ends with couple wounded
Wrong lesson: Gun safety class ends with couple wounded - Roanoke.com
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Wrong lesson: Gun safety class ends with couple wounded
By Duncan Adams | The Roanoke Times
A firearms safety course went awry in Bedford County Saturday when a man shot himself in the hand with a .45-caliber handgun and the bullet passed through his hand and struck his wife, seated nearby, in the leg.
Shot were Michael L. Deel, 54, and Michelle K. Deel, 49, both of Roanoke. Emergency dispatchers in Bedford County received a call at 12:25 p.m. reporting a shooting on Chapel Woods Drive. The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office said county rescue units and deputies responded.
The Deels were attending a firearms safety class being taught and hosted by Thomas F. Starke, 57, according to the department.
The sheriff’s office said Starke told deputies that he had left the room, heard a shot and returned to find the Deels had been shot.
The couple was taken by ambulance to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The shooting remains under investigation.
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Dan Casey's Blog thread at: http://tinyurl.com/7l37nja
Second Blog thread started -- feel free to join in
Dan Casey has started a second thread pointing directly at College Carry and
thrown down a challenge.
IMHO, any anti-firearm blogger who post on a local Virginia paper site is
aiming directly at the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) in Virginia.
I think it is safe to read the following an attempt to influence RKBA
legislation in Virginia.
http://tinyurl.com/bns4f63
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SNIP
To which Yupbilly interjected the perfect response, below:
“It’s ironic. Loaded guns are not allowed in a ‘gun class,’ but there are
folks that think college students should be allowed to carry a loaded one in
academic classes.
Go figure.”
I would like someone from the gun crowed to explain this logic to me,
seriously.
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FWIIW, the following is my reply to a similar comment on the original
thread:
http://tinyurl.com/7l37nja
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Re: Comment by Kristen — April 23, 2012 @ 8:02 pm
Kristen,
Do you, honestly, fail to see the difference between a concealed handgun
holstered until needed to defend oneself and/or others v. multiple handguns
being handled by folk (some of whom think/know that they need training)?
SCCC and other Pro-less-restrictions-on-the-RKBA organizations are talking
about concealed carry.
I can’t speak for others. But I, for one, would have no problem with a ban
on handling a firearm in class, public events, etc — save in clear case of
self defense.
That could be done by reference to existing Virginia law:
LIS > Code of Virginia > 18.2-282
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§ 18.2-282. Pointing, holding, or brandishing firearm, air or gas operated
weapon or object similar in appearance; penalty.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to point, hold or brandish any
firearm or any air or gas operated weapon or any object similar in
appearance, whether capable of being fired or not, in such manner as to
reasonably induce fear in the mind of another or hold a firearm or any air
or gas operated weapon in a public place in such a manner as to reasonably
induce fear in the mind of another of being shot or injured. However, this
section shall not apply to any person engaged in excusable or justifiable
self-defense. Persons violating the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor or, if the violation occurs upon any public,
private or religious elementary, middle or high school, including buildings
and grounds or upon public property within 1,000 feet of such school
property, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
B. Any police officer in the performance of his duty, in making an arrest
under the provisions of this section, shall not be civilly liable in damages
for injuries or death resulting to the person being arrested if he had
reason to believe that the person being arrested was pointing, holding, or
brandishing such firearm or air or gas operated weapon, or object that was
similar in appearance, with intent to induce fear in the mind of another.
C. For purposes of this section, the word “firearm” means any weapon that
will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel single or
multiple projectiles by the action of an explosion of a combustible
material. The word “ammunition,” as used herein, shall mean a cartridge,
pellet, ball, missile or projectile adapted for use in a firearm.
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Comment by Dave Hicks — April 23, 2012 @ 8:27 pm
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