Man accidentally shoots self in leg at Gettysburg park rally

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:39 pm, Saturday, July 1, 2017


GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man participating in a free speech rally at Gettysburg National Military Park accidentally shot himself in the leg.

Park spokeswoman Katie Lawhon says the man's revolver accidentally discharged shortly before 1 p.m. Saturday near the Meade Equestrian Statue in the central Pennsylvania park.

United States Park Police Sgt. Anna Rose says police quickly applied a tourniquet, and the man was taken to a hospital for medical care. PennLive.com reports that he was talking with paramedics and seemed in good spirits.

Lawhon says she didn't know if the man was with a particular group but said he was participating in First Amendment demonstrations taking place at the park. Federal laws permit firearms in national parks.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Man-accidentally-shoots-self-in-leg-at-Gettysburg-11261341.php

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Better him than somebody else.

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. White privilege. Shoots self. Police come to his aid, and help treat him.

[FakeNoose]

35. You may be right, however

... I've been to Gettysburg several times and I haven't seen many POC there.
Maybe POC visitors to the historic sites, but not living in Gettysburg.

So in this case maybe the cops are just doing their jobs and not taking sides.

[Honeycombe8]

41. So you think that if he had been black and accidentally shot himself,

the authorities wouldn't have helped him?

[Aristus]

50. They might have helped him out with another shot.

Cops don't exercise a lot of restraint around POC...

[FailureToCommunicate]

61. Well, I guess I've just seen far too many videos posted that show POC being shot dead for

nothing more than a traffic stop. And there are many many videos showing crazy white guys with AK47s or guns of any sort and the police are careful to diffuse the situation or just plain ignore them, and leave them be.

[Skittles]

3. another gun humping moron

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Cryptoad]

4. Glad we have a

GOP law that allows more idiots with guns in the parks.......geez

[ProudLib72]

5. Why bring a gun to a 1st amendment rally?

So you can shoot someone who says something you disagree with?

[jberryhill]

6. 1st Amendment is overdone anyway

I'd like to see a Third Amendment rally, or maybe combine it with a Seventh Amendment rally.

[politicat]

8. Every reproductive rights rally is a 3A rally.

We're asserting our right to not have the government impose their agents upon us.

[jberryhill]

11. First time I've heard that angle

Chapeau

[politicat]

22. I'm shocked nobody uses it. That was the very first thing I thought of...

I audited an upper division, pre-law constitutional law class a few years ago. Given the context of the original intent and the history of quartering, it's incredibly easy to draw the parallel between forcing a homeowner to shelter and nourish agents of the government without compensation or permission and forcing a person to house and nourish a fetus without compensation of permission.

3A is the basis for all privacy rights.

[ProudLib72]

10. Let's go for 16th Amendment rally

Read Teddy's 1906 speech to congress about the wealthy needing to give back to the country. Now there was a "Progressive" movement.

[Dustlawyer]

17. Because he got his Amendments mixed up!

[jpak]

7. ...

[SnowCritter]

9. Dang! You beat me to it!

[jberryhill]

12. The clenched jaws of stupidity

[jpak]

13. Great Minds...etc.

[appleannie1943]

14. Thankfully he did not shoot some innocent bystander.

[Solly Mack]

15. And the 3 groups are

1. Sons of Confederate Veterans
2. Real 3 % Risen
3. Maryland Sons of Confederate Veterans


http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/06/protests_could_be_met_by_count.html


Guess the gun exercised its right to free speech and went off.

[broadcaster90210]

16. I sure hope the Second Amendment is OK.

nt

[TeamPooka]

18. Wrong Amendment Mister. nt

[NobodyHere]

19. A Confederate gets shot at Gettysburg?

Poetic Justice somehow

[Sneederbunk]

20. The ghosts of Gettysburg are laughing.

[safeinOhio]

34. Need a rally at Appomattox on April 9

and push for a National Surrender day. We can celebrate Northern Culture.

[ChazInAz]

49. What a fine idea!

Remind them of their surrender every year.
Remind them who started the fight, and why they started it.
And that we finished the fight, and let them limp away without anyone getting hanged.

[Alice11111]

21. Poetic justice

[Turbineguy]

23. First Amendment

can Second Amendment be far behind?

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. ROFL

[mahina]

26. HAAAA.

Tears. Thanks for that!

[mahina]

25. Like a scene out of Mastermind.

I'm not ashamed to say I laughed out loud. At the movie, not at this dude.

Brah...

[Binkie The Clown]

27. Stupid is as stupid does. n/t

[still_one]

28. As I said in another thread, WTF was he doing with a loaded gun?

[NBachers]

29. Besides that, he was forced to accept aid from the socialist Fed rangers and the tax-parasite EMT's.

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Talk about adding insult to injury. Didn't they realize that he's a Free Man of the Land, and independent of the laws and restrictions imposed by corrupt statutes?

[Ken Burch]

31. True "Free Men of the Land" pull their self-inflicted bullets out of their legs with their OWN teeth

...even if they have to take the teeth of of their "meth mouths" to do it...

[nocalflea]

32. What odds he has health-care insurance ?

[louis-t]

46. I wonder if he's a "sovereign citizen"?

You know, with a sovereign bullet in his sovereign fucking leg?

[not fooled]

68. Hahaha good one!

Unfortunately, the dimwits who believe the anti-gubmint nonsense won't get the joke.

[Ken Burch]

30. It's bias NOT to put the words "free speech rally" in quotes in this context.

It is simply their assertion that what they are fighting for is "free speech".

[pablo_marmol]

33. Hooray! Let the culture war continue as we piss away elections!

Yay! We're so morally superior! Fuck the rednecks! Hell no, we're not disconnected from the electorate --- they're just all idiots!

Hip hip.....HOORAY!.....Hip hip HOORAY! Hip hip.....HOORAY!

[SecularMotion]

36. USA! NRA! USA! NRA! USA! NRA!

[pablo_marmol]

55. Strawman -- see #54 NT

[SecularMotion]

59. You crawled out of the gungeon, attended a thread in LBN and shot yourself

Go back to the gungeon, NRAboi

[pablo_marmol]

62. By all means, keep the culture war goin'.

The Democratic Party is hurting enough yet.

[RhodeIslandOne]

44. So apparently you don't think he's an idiot?

Because I sense sarcasm here.....

[pablo_marmol]

56. Strawman -- see #54

The innuendo that all/most gun owners are idiots is fairly described as culture war that backfires in a big way.

[RhodeIslandOne]

57. You really don't know what a strawman is

But I know what deflection is.

[pablo_marmol]

64. Strawman by infantile innuendo.

Your suggestion that I don't view the guy as an idiot.......in essence distorting my viewpoint to suit your narrative.

Edited to add: I seriously doubt that anyone on this board fails to see the point of this thread. Nobody posts self-destructive accidents on this board unless committed by "idiot gun-humpers".

[RhodeIslandOne]

65. You're the one engaging in infantile behavior

A sarcastic reply to the OP taking offense to even bringing the story up.

And I thought liberals and Democrats were the sensitive ones, that's why Trump won, right? Because we snowflakes can't take a joke?

Funny how projection works.

[pablo_marmol]

66. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Because we all know that there was no culture war at play with the OP.

[RhodeIslandOne]

67. We should leave all future criticism of gun abuse to you I guess

A pat on the back to the offender, maybe a hug, and then you can brag about how you "holster your rig" in public so as not to blow anyone's head off.

Wouldn't want to offend any sensitive Republicans or Trumpkins who might vote for a Democrat anytime in the next 400 years for dog catcher.

[alcibiades_mystery]

53. If kissing the asses of white supremacist shitbags is the way we win elections, I don't wanna win

elections.

[pablo_marmol]

54. Strawman argument.

I never suggested "kissing the asses" of shitbags. Suggesting not spotlighting relatively rare events is NOT the same as kissing RW ass.

I'd say 'nice try' but it wasn't even close.

[LanternWaste]

60. Yours is a Strawman... ironic, no?

Yours is a Strawman... ironic, no?

[pablo_marmol]

63. No strawman, hence no irony. Wild swing and miss. NT

[Homer Wells]

37. How in the world

Does anybody "accidently " shoot himself in the leg with a revolver? Damn thing has to be cocked and ready to fire before it can "accidently " go off! Seems like there is more to this story than is being told.

[Historic NY]

38. He was using the gun & holster to "rest" the butt of the flag he was carrying...

its really would be karma if it was the stars and bars or the piss yellow flag.

[Flaleftist]

39. No gun is idiot proof. nt

[Honeycombe8]

42. Some guns don't have safety mechanisms. nt

[ileus]

40. Taking bets on method of carry AWIB or IWB.

Both stupid and dumb when a simple leather pancake holster conceals just as well without any of the discomfort that requires making adjustments to crappy inside the pants holsters after you sit and stand back up.

Something also tells me his firearm of choice didn't have a dangerous manual safety.

[HAB911]

43. Maybe his leg was armed

sometimes I kill me

thanks, I'll be here all week

[NBachers]

48. Okay, that gets the laugh of the day.

[HAB911]

58. thanks,

sometimes no one appreciates the depth and breadth of my humor!

[Rustynaerduwell]

45. The only way to stop an idiot with a gun

is to be the idiot with a gun

[Sunlei]

47. A gun discharge should be a crime with penalties like required safety classes & fines.

Should require liability insurance on each gun carried in public areas. Accidents will happen just like with a car.

[mokawanis]

51. It's the gun's fault

It always humors me when these articles state the weapon "accidentally discharged".

[longship]

52. Always keep one in the chamber, just in case.

The fucking fool.