Another nimrod brings us closer to confiscation

[Malone LaVeigh]

aka "Guns, alcohol and cats don't mix"

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/13872010/detail.html

Man Blames Cat After Gun Fires
Cat Euthanized After Shooting

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A New Hampshire man has been charged with a felony after he first told police that his cat had accidentally shot itself.

Nicholas Goroff, 24, told officers the cat had knocked over a shotgun, causing it to fire. But beer cans in his apartment and the smell of alcohol on his breath, caused police to question his story.

Eventually, he told police he had pulled the hammer back on the gun and while attempting to release it his thumb slipped and the gun fired. A round hit the cat.

The cat had to be euthanized and Goroff faces charges of felony reckless conduct.

Police said they found a hole from the slug in the floor of Goroff's apartment. They said the round traveled in the direction of another apartment in the building, putting others at risk.

Goroff was arraigned in Manchester District Court on Friday and faces another court hearing Aug. 23.

 

[MikeG]

The cat was clearly the brains of the operation, too.

 

[Agent 006 &7/8]

He shoulda blamed the dog!

 

[Dave P]

Did they check the BAC of the cat?

Maybe it was chasing the clay pigeons?!

 

[Black Adder LXX]

Apparently New Hampshire needs tougher cat licensing... :banghead:

What an idiot.

 

[Titan6]

Don't know why they euthanized it. It still had eight more lives to go...

 

[Black Adder LXX]

^^^ Niice!!!

 

[.cheese.]

lessson to be learned: Guns and cats don't mix.

or was that guns and alcohol? Or alcohol and cats?

 

[CNYCacher]

How in the heeeeeaall did a cat survive getting hit with a shotgun slug?

 

[geekWithA.45]

No one is going to confiscate guns en masse because some drunken ijit shot his cat.

They will because we lost both the cultural and political fight.

We're wining the political fight, not so impressive on the cultural fight.

We need both.

 

[goings_51]

Can they really charge you with a felony for a negligent discharge in your private residence if no one else was present?

...poor cat. One has to wonder how much of an accident it really was though.

 

[Don Gwinn]

"SEE? It can happen to anybody!"

 

[eastwood44mag]

^^^I was waiting for that

 

[revjen45]

One of my friends shot his wife's dog with a ND. He thought he had removed all the rounds from an old model Ruger .41 Mag and dry fired it. Instead of click he got bang and hit the dog. It survived, but was gun shy forever after and his wife wasn't too pleased. Those of us who knew the situation were aware he wasn't to fond of the dog and thought he was pointing the gun at it to wig it out (gun shy to start with) which he denied, and the ND surprised him as much as the dog. The dog's survival after being hit with a .41 mag was miraculous, and the vet said had the bullet been off in any direction it would have been lethal.

 

[Zoogster]

The only thing bringing anyone closer to confiscation is people who even consider that a potential result. You with this title obviously consider confiscation acceptable or you would not be willing to allow it to ever happen and consider it plausible.

I however do not think general confiscation is a possibility. I think confiscation will come in the form of increased numbers of offenses that make one a "prohibited" individual. That is not confiscation as we know it, it just achieves a similar result.

 

[Fisherman_48768]

Have to wonder why he had a gun in the cat house anyway.

 

[.cheese.]

well.... I have to admit I feel bad for the cat after thinking about this. And the dog in revjen45's story.

I guess I'm a sucker for animals though, which I'm a little ashamed of.

 

[Malone LaVeigh]

The only thing bringing anyone closer to confiscation is people who even consider that a potential result. You with this title obviously consider confiscation acceptable or you would not be willing to allow it to ever happen and consider it plausible.

Oh, Zoog, you're such a genius. You've figured out my diabolical scheme. I'm deviously trying to promote confiscation by ... oh, something you obviously understand better than the rest of us.

Take your meds today?

 

[SG Merc]

No one is going to confiscate guns en masse because some drunken ijit shot his cat.

They will because we lost both the cultural and political fight.

We're wining the political fight, not so impressive on the cultural fight.

We need both.

I'm just quoting this because I think it pretty much sums everything up.

Public support has been the only thing that's kept the Constitution intact.

 

[alucard0822]

apparently breaking the 4 rules overrules a cat's 9 lives, It is sad that an innocent animal lost it's life due to sheer human stupidity, and then blamed for the accident none-the-less, but luckily no-one was in the wrong spot at the wrong time the next apartment over. Funny that gun accidents command such a place in the news when most other types of accidents don't? OH YEA, because they are rare, and the vast majority of gun-owners are law-abiding and perfectly safe.



Posted for any and all to read and remember:
http://www.thefiringline.com/Misc/safetyrules.html