A pizza delivery man is recovering after being shot on the job and the trigger man is believed to be an animal.
Toledo Police tell us Ryan Brill was delivering a pizza when he was shot in the leg.
The home owner, Anthony Wulf, said his gun discharged when it hit the floor after his dog knocked it off the table.
Brill is expected to recover.
"Friday, a Toledo, Ohio, dog — possibly upset about the time it took for his pizza to arrive — reportedly shot pizza delivery man Ryan Brill in the leg.
ReplyDeleteThe homeowner, Anthony Wulf, claims the gun went off when it fell onto the floor after his dog knocked it off a table, but he could possibly be covering for his dog — we just don't know."
"The dog, whose name was not released to the press, has presumably been downgraded from “good boy” and is correspondingly devastated."
http://www.peoplepets.com/2015/12/08/article/dog-reportedly-shoots-wounds-pizza-delivery-man?xid=rss-topheadlines
I would have difficulty arguing against the contention that the Second Amendment imposes a Constitutional bar to banning gun possession by dogs. The Second Amendment guarantees, after all, the right of the people to keep and bear arms--"the people" ain't the National Guard, and it ain't dogs, either.
ReplyDeleteNow, on the other hand, if one were to ask if the Second Amendment protection for the right to keep and bear arms extends to chimpanzees and other great apes, we run into something of a gray area.
I, frankly, have not really given it enough thought to arrive at a position, but I suspect it's pretty unlikely that that particular debate will heat up very soon, so I imagine I have a bit of time to ruminate on it.
I would have difficulty arguing against the contention that the Second Amendment imposes a Constitutional bar . . .
DeleteOops--that should, of course, have been, "I would have difficulty arguing against the contention that the Second Amendment imposes no Constitutional bar . . . "
In other words, the original sentence had exactly the opposite meaning from the one I'd intended. Sorry about that--I probably sounded a little crazy.
Jokes aside, it sounds like a simple dropped gun going off again, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteMike, as I do when people claim to have dropped a modern handgun, I'm calling BS on the claim that the dog knocked the gun over and it went off.
DeleteSomewhere in this event, someone's finger made contact with the trigger and made it go off. How many people were in the room again?
As a caveat, I'll admit that I haven't read much on the safety mechanism design on long arms and how they compare with those on pistols. Perhaps someone else here can share their knowledge on it if they are more knowledgeable.
However, I've been around firearms for over thirty years and have never encountered a gun going off from being dropped. There has always been something, most often a finger pulling the trigger.