Man Accidentally Shoots Himself and Wife in Church While Discussing Recent Church Shooting
A husband and wife pair was accidentally shot in a Tennessee church after discussing church shootings with members of their place of worship.
Elder members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains got together for a Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, during which they talked about the Nov. 5 massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, where 25 people and an unborn child were killed.
When someone asked if any of the guests had brought a gun to their church, an unidentified man in his Eighties told the group, “I carry my handgun everywhere,” according to a retelling of the incident by Tellico Plains Police Chief Russ Parks as reported by multiple local news outlets.
“Somebody else walked up and said, ‘Can I see it?'” Parks said. “He pulled it back out and said, ‘With this loaded indicator, I can tell that it’s not loaded.’ ” The man pulled the trigger to prove it was not loaded but he “just forgot that he re-chambered the weapon,” Parks said.
After it went off, the gun owner hit himself in the hand and his wife – who is also in her Eighties – in the abdomen.
The couple was transported to University of Tennessee Medical Center by helicopter for non-life threatening injuries, according to Parks.
“Just want to let Everyone know that there was a shooting in town today. But it was not an active shooter situation. It was an accidentally discharged handgun,” the Tellico Plains Police Department said in a statement on Facebook. “No other people were harmed in this accident.”
Nearby schools were placed in a temporary lockdown for the students’ safety.
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No, this is not from The Onion.
I'm curious, why are they calling this "accidental"?
I don't know, but it should scare a lot of people away from going to church. They are practically doing the work for us atheists.
That kind of negligence combined with how priests treat children, what could go wrong?
With the Priests it's never an accidental discharge...
That's intentional and it seems to be encouraged by the church. Really gives insight into "suffer the little children".
because it was. are you really saying this 80 year old man purposely shot himself?
An accident is something that could not be avoided. This could have been avoided. I'm saying the 80 year old man NEGLIGENTLY shot himself.
There are at least 50 of these "accidental" shootings reported a month in this country and nearly all of them involving people who claim to be "experienced" gun owners.
I'd say that is actually a pretty good safety record compared to automobile accidents.
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Motor vehicle deaths in the USA by year. According to data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2016, 37,461 people were killed in 34,436 crashes, an average of 102 per day.
In 2007 America had 254.4 million registered passenger vehicles and approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the United States.
The U.S. has an estimated 270 million total guns in the civilian population.
More guns than cars but many less gun related accidents.
Maybe we need less people with cars. Could we shoot some of the worst drivers ?
Even the numbers up a little maybe…lol
Good point.
E.A Yes Compare it to " electric tools accidents " and also " Cordless tool accidents " and one can see the Futility of the " Brain dead walking "
Thanks, It came right off the top of my head.
lol
Hey I asked if we could even out the numbers...
You have the sheath for that right?
E.A well done I am Proud of you, but if the Numbers are lower then 0.000004% just say " Infinitesimally Similar to the " Zombified Brain Dead " :-)
Bamm ya got me. I have no snappy comeback. I surrender
lol
I'm not mathematician but I'll bet it wouldn't take a lot of dead folks to reach that point.
I'll bet we have enough bad drivers right here to satisfy that.
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PS: Far enough down this bizarro road for me.
E.A If " Right here " is NT, that I have to Agree 100%
LOL "and a real one"
Actually I was talking in my town but yeah I kinda agree, many more over on nv though.
We just need self driving cars, then people can have both hands on their guns while driving...
E.A I am a strong believer on " Do Not Beat a Dead Horse " NV is dead and gone, lets see if it is possible to revive this one!
E.A No Need see the Videos on South Africa and " Armoured Vehicles " and you see that NO Human needs any Armaments! The Vehicles will do all that needs doing, Cremation is optional On the Spot!
People need to stop driving cars and start driving their guns, since guns are so much safer than cars.
Yeah, and since driving a car is not a right protected by the Constitution.
When the Constitution was written, the authors had no way of knowing how advanced the future invention called an automobile would become.
there is NO right to drive a car. It is a privilege granted by States and the Federal Government appropriately has NO involvement
Why didn't the couple stay in church and pray for god to cure them?
Why pray to God for a cure when the same God could have prevented it. Unless he was trying to tell them something.
Their god seems to have an extremely twisted sense of humor.
I don't think it's the god. He was made up by a group of sheep herding desert wanders. Some of the followers on the other hand.....
It's a very perverse god you pray to.
But they do it and expect others to follow suit.
because most methodists are taught to no longer believe the Bible
Is that according to the Southern Baptists or the Catholics?
that's according to what they have made as official statements of faith. and I belong to neither the Southern Baptists or the Cult of the Church of Rome
Where did they deviate?
Wow and thanks for that news. You've given me newfound respect for Methodists. Maybe there is hope for humans after all.
Events like this are bound to become a lot more frequent among the faithful.
I'll refer you to this critique from a Methodist Theologian and President of a Methodist Seminary
Asbury Theological Seminary President Timothy C. Tennent took office on July 1, 2009 and was inaugurated in November of the same year. He previously served 11 years as Professor of World Missions and Indian Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Prior to his work in Massachusetts, Dr. Tennent taught missions at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia, where he was honored as teacher of the year in 1995. He also teaches annually at the Luther W. New Jr. Theological College of Dehra Dun, India, where he has served as an adjunct professor since 1989. He has also ministered and taught in China, Thailand, Nigeria and Eastern Europe. Ordained in the United Methodist Church, he has pastored churches in Georgia, and preached regularly in churches throughout New England and across the country.
Dr. Tennent is the author of several books, including Building Christianity on Indian Foundations , (ISPCK, 2000); Christianity at the Religious Roundtable , (Baker Academic, 2002); and Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think About and Discuss Theology , (Zondervan, 2007). He is the co-author of Revitalizing Practice, which is about challenges to theological education in North America (Peter Lang, 2008). Dr. Tennent is also the author of a missiology textbook entitled Invitation to World Missions: A Missiology for the 21st Century , which was published in 2010.
This old guy is so lucky he didn't "accidentally" murder one of his fellow church members.
Gramps showing off his gun (sounds like from the account) and being about as irresponsible as a teenager with it.
IS this the next elderly problem alongside of them jumping curbs and driving into store fronts ?
There's going to be one more accidental shooting when grandma gets out of the hospital.
This is pretty good, I must admit, but the best one, in my mind, is still the gun nut that got shot by his dog when the pooch stepped on a loaded gun on the floor of his truck. I don't remember if this detail was even mentioned, but I'm willing to bet the truck had a Confederate flag in its back window!
Rule #1 when confirming a gun isn't loaded, don't point it at your own hand and/or wife before pulling the trigger...
Instead if ''fire and brimstone'' we have bullets an bandages.
I’m picturing a Southern Baptist preacher giving a sermon, saying “FIRE” ... and several guns going off in the congregation before he can say “AND BRIMSTONE”.