Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Pennsylvania Woman Accidentally Shot with her Own Gun - Shooter Charged




State Police in Pennsylvania have charged a Fayette County man who accidentially shot a woman with a gun he thought was unloaded.

Jeremy Hambrosky, 24 is facing involuntary manslaughter.  His bond has been set at $50,000.  State Police say troopers were called to Bullskin Township in Fayette County Sunday afternoon and found Kylie Sage, 23, in the driver's seat with injuries to upper, left torso, sitting in a pool of blood.  She died at the scene.

Hambrosky told police she handed him a gun she had purchased on Saturday.  He asked if the gun was loaded and she assured him it was not.  Hambrosky pulled back the slide and as he returned it to the starting position the gun discharged.  The bullet hit Sage under the armpit and hit the driver's side mirror.  

It's hard to decide who's a stupider and more unfit gun owner, the dead girl or her friend who's charged with her death.

Yet, gun-rights fanatics oppose all attempts at raising the bar as to who can own guns.

5 comments:

  1. Correct, I do. People should be responsible for their own actions, not subject to prior restraint like pre-criminals.

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    1. Yeah, "prior-restraint." That's one of those cool buzz words you freedom and rights guys like.

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    2. Maybe because it's an issue with so many of our rights, and because the limitation that keeps the government from instituting prior restraints is one of the things that makes our system so different from others countries' systems, even when they have similarly named rights.

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  2. "Yet, gun-rights fanatics oppose all attempts at raising the bar as to who can own guns."

    Mike,
    Those in the gun control industry have only one way of looking at things, to reduce the number of guns in private hands. This has been very well illustrated by your postings. If you limit yourself to only one possible solution, you run the risk of overlooking more effective solutions.

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    1. That's not a fair representation of what I say. I'd like to reduce the number of guns in the hands of UNQUALIFIED private hands. Now you know this. Why would you say it the other way?

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