Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge of the Day: When Shotguns Attack! Edition

By Robert Farago

‘Man shot in abdomen by shotgun’, Iowa’s kcci.com proclaims. More promisingly – in terms of attributing the firearms-related injury to something other than a malevolent inanimate object – the lead reveals that “A man was airlifted to the hospital after being shot in the abdomen while pheasant hunting Saturday morning in Plymouth County.” Ouch! But don’t get to thinking that kcci.com’ crack journos would use this as an opportunity to warn readers about gun safety, rather than gun possession (in the demonic sense) . . .

The Department of Natural Resources said 18-year-old Ross Arens, of Remsen, was …read more

Via:: Truth About Guns