We should have a background check to buy a stove

Woman says she was shot in the leg by her stove.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_fe_st/odd_shot_by_stove

SEKIU, Wash. - A woman said she was shot in the leg by her stove. Cory Davis told the Peninsula Daily News she had just stoked her cast-iron heating stove Sunday when she heard a loud bang and was struck in her left calf.

Davis said a case of shotgun shells spilled about a month ago at her home and one must have landed in the newspapers she used to light the stove.

She removed a metal fragment herself and was treated Monday at Forks Community Hospital.


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Danger can come from almost anyplace if you are not careful!

It would seem like a good idea to count the shells when you put them back in the spilled box. I bet she will count them the next time…

Stupid is as stupid does...

Here's her sign...

She'll only find sympathy in the dictionary.

What's up with the elitist attitude I've been seeing around here lately? So dropping things automatically makes you stupid now? Everytime someone gets injured, people are so quick to jump on the bandwagon to attack them. What happend to just having an unfortunate accident? It's not like she was throwing shells into the fire, she spilled the box a month before it actually happened. This is just one of those one in a million events that happen. Maybe she could have counted the shells, but that would assume she knew how many were in the box in the first place.

An accident is an unexpected negative outcome not connected to a specific action or cause that could otherwise be avoided.

She made a mistake.

I have little tolerance for people who make mistakes with firearms and ammunition. It is a product of my conditioning as a hunter eductaion instructor and a range officer. Maybe I blow such events out of proportion. It is events such as these that prompt the PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. to err on the side of caution and support irrational gun control measures more and more.

If she's not willing to take such hazards serious enough to be accountable, then she should never have had the shells in the first place. Her attitude the month prior is far too casual and nonchalant for my comfort.

Such attitudes are counter-intuitive to survival. She gets honorable mention in Darwin Awards selection.

If I spill shells, I keep looking until I find them all. I know what's in my ammo boxes (most are full) and I make the number in partial boxes, just makes my life easier.

I’m not criticizing her for dropping the shell. I would have counted the shells in the box when picking them up. Assuming it was a full box, you can tell if one is missing. But saying that, I have thousands of rounds of ammo, some of the boxes are not full and I can see not knowing how many dropped out of the box.

I was more pointing out how a simple thing can go bad so easily.

Don't we ALL keep our ammo with the woodstove tinder?