Woman who fatally shot herself in eye was adjusting her bra holster, St. Joseph police say

[Electric Monk]

A woman who accidentally shot herself in the eye on New Years Day at her Lake Michigan home was adjusting the handgun in her bra holster, police say.

St. Joseph Public Safety detectives are still waiting on the full autopsy report in the death of Christina Bond, 55, but released the new details to the Kalamazoo Gazette on Wednesday.

"She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn't get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon," said St. Joseph Public Safety Director Mark Clapp.

Officers responded to 396 Upton Drive at 5:10 p.m. Jan. 1 to find Bond with a gunshot wound to the eye. She was taken to Lakeland Hospital and then airlifted to Bronson Methodist Hospital where she died the next day.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2015/02/woman_who_fatally_shot_herself.html
(GD thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026245140 )

Funny comment from that GD thread:

you have to have a gun in EACH cup, that way if one of them tries to shoot you

the other can protect you.

[SheilaT]

1. Isn't it just wonderful how guns make us all safe?

[Warpy]

2. Definite Darwin Award candidate

since the article didn't mention any children and women are still defined mostly by what man they belong to and how many offspring they have produced.

As all these stupid tragedies pile up, you'd think gun crazies would start to catch a clue, that having those deadly weapons around them increase their chances of violent death rather than keeping them safe.

[Jenoch]

3. Ha ha. A woman is dead.

It's real funny when a woman accidently kills herself, right? Don't you two have any compassion?

[GGJohn]

6. Yeah, those 2 are a riot.

Funny how we pro 2A types are constantly excoriated as not caring for the victims of firearms violence, yet you read shit like this from known controllers here.

[Duckhunter935]

9. yep they do seem to get all joyful at things like this

Use a proper holster, that should be the "gun safety" tip the "gun safety" people should be pushing instead of jokes.

I guess they really do not care about gun safety after all.

[ileus]

12. The 2A regressives have to celebrate deaths like this...it's who they are.

it's what they're invested in. Without incidents like this the donations dry up and the agenda dies.

[Electric Monk]

17. Perhaps you'd like to continue in the LBN thread on this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141017932

Here's my favorite reply from that thread:

I like this woman's take on the whole thing

http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-02-18/woman-fatally-shoots-self-in-face-while-adjusting-bra-holster/

I’m gonna be an asshole for a moment, because this is the way I really feel. I’m not happy about Christina Bond dying. I’m not happy about anyone dying. But, you know, I read these stories all the time about children being accidentally killed by guns left out by parents, or about innocent, non-gun toting people being accidentally killed by firearms, and my feeling is this: better Christina Bond than one of them.

I’m sorry. This is what people like Christina Bond basically advocate for. This is what they want. This is their idea of freedom. They’re mad at people like me for wanting to take that “freedom” away because we don’t want anyone getting their heads accidentally blown off. To boot, Bond posted not one, but two things on her page about how funny and totally OK it is to run over people protesting the Ferguson verdict. I don’t believe in karma, but if I did, I might use this as an example.

[Straw Man]

19. Why ...

... would anyone want to participate in that ghoulish, gravedancing hatefest?

[Electric Monk]

20. You're siding with Republican Jesus Freak Shoots Herself Ironically because.... gunz? nt

[Duckhunter935]

22. and how did you come up with that little gem?

[Straw Man]

24. No, I'm just not celebrating her death.

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You're siding with Republican Jesus Freak Shoots Herself Ironically because.... gunz?

Apparently some people think that it's screamingly funny when Republican Jesus Freaks die. I don't. Call me old-fashioned.

[Duckhunter935]

27. keep digging

[pablo_marmol]

18. No no NO Jenoch!

The Controllers are the compassionate ones! We're the cold blooded ones!

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Jeez.

She gave herself a Moe Greene Special.

[Jenoch]

5. It just keeps getting funnier and funnier.

[Shamash]

7. It just goes to show you

In the real world, the chance that a fatal accident (other than a car accident) involves a gun: 0.54%

At DU, the chance that a fatal accident (other than a car accident) involves a gun: ?100%

I would offer an official slogan for the people who like to post these stories, but apparently Fox News has already trademarked "fair and balanced"...

[beevul]

8. What do you suggest to prevent accidents such as the one in the OP? N/T

[Duckhunter935]

10. well he is for "gun safety"

so I am sure he will have one here real soon.

[Electric Monk]

13. Quite simple, actually. Don't carry a gun around with you and you won't ever shoot yourself. nt

[GGJohn]

14. Don't ever ride or drive in a vehicle and you won't ever get in an accident.

Don't ever go swimming and you won't ever drown.
See how stupid that is?

[Electric Monk]

15. Your first two sentences are true statements. Vehicles serve a useful purpose, getting from A to B.

Guns shoot things and people. That's what they're made to do.

[GGJohn]

16. And yet, thousands of people die each year from vehicle accidents

and drownings.
You seem like one of the more moderate people on the 2A, I kinda enjoy reading your posts on the other issues here.
Matter of fact, other than the 2A, I'll bet that we agree on just about everything else.

[ileus]

11. Glock eye???

Normally it's glock leg, but I wonder if this is a case of the G42 giving her the glock eye.

I know the 42's marketed toward women a bunch, but I also know the 42 isn't a small gun. Most of these bra holsters I can't imagine being useful enough for anything larger than the LCP sized 380's.


Proper holster folks...If it's uncomfortable you're going to eventually abandon it and leave it behind. As we all know a gun at home can't keep you safe, and it needs to be easily accessible or it's useless.


Stay safe, know your equipment and train, train, train.

[beevul]

21. Education could prevent such things.

Its too bad the "gun safety" contingent aren't interested in...gun safety education.

[Duckhunter935]

23. I see that, they just show the joy of this

[blueridge3210]

25. Got it, you thing it's funny when people die. Thanks for the clarification.

[BeyondGeography]

26. "Don't tase me bra," was an even better line

from that thread, which was wrongly locked by a mod who called it a local gun story (the story, which has been picked up everywhere, went on to thrive in LBN, and rightly so).

For those who say we are laughing at this woman's death, she was an adult who died stupidly and unnecessarily of a self-inflicted wound due to circumstances that she created. If it helps cushion the blow for you at all, her Facebook page included snark about how to run over Ferguson rioters. Some people are more deserving of sympathy than others.

[Straw Man]

28. I say you are laughing at this woman's death ...

... because you are laughing at this woman's death. Apparently you think that's acceptable because of her political beliefs and the ironic circumstances of her death. I don't think that mocking the death of another human being is ever acceptable. So let's just be clear on that, OK?

Some people are more deserving of sympathy than others? That's understating it a little bit, don't you think? Is there anything between sympathy and derision in your playbook?

Paging John Donne, Meditation 17.

[BeyondGeography]

29. It's an observation

I haven't made any jokes, but humor happens in these cases. As does sanctimony.

[Straw Man]

30. Bullshit.

It's an observation

I haven't made any jokes, but humor happens in these cases. As does sanctimony.

You "haven't made any jokes," but you went public with your appreciation of one of the most tasteless of the bunch. So refusing to mock the dead is "sanctimony"? Fine -- I'll wear that. Call me sanctimonious.

"Humor happens"? Spare us the mealy-mouthed evasions.