One Britton-Hecla student faces charges and another is recovering at a Fargo, N.D., hospital after an accidental shooting on school property Wednesday.
Dusty Groom, 18, of rural Lake City, faces misdemeanor charges of reckless discharge of a firearm, possession of a firearm on school property and false reporting to authorities, according to a news release from Elsen.
Groom was showing other boys what he thought was an unloaded .22 caliber handgun when it went off and hit another teenager in the head about 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to the release. The sheriff's office received a call from the Britton hospital emergency room about the shooting about 4:25 p.m., according to the release.
Young Mr. Groom surely came from one of those gun-nut families. Where else would he learn his responsible gun handling from.
Incidentally, this is a typical 18-year-old, not those squared-away military types who are truly qualified to own and use firearms at their young age. Most are not.
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Typical? Do you even know how you sound? To find out, insert "black person" after typical in your rants. See if you'd tolerate such talk.
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