The Homestead youth minister who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the accidental shooting death of a 15-year-old girl was sentenced to house arrest this morning…. On Nov. 20, 2007, Mr. Owens brought a group of teenagers from a Hill District church to his house in Duquesne. He brought the shotgun down from his bedroom to show the group. He removed the ammunition from the gun at first, but later put one round in the chamber and placed the gun out of sight in the living room.
Mr. Owens and most of the teens gathered on the front porch, but David Hamm remained in the living room, where he retrieved the gun and accidentally shot Chelsea McAlister in the face.
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if more people had snuggies i think there’d be a lot less shootings in the face.
Whether or not you think a gun is loaded, it’s generally a bad idea to aim a real, bullet-shooting gun at someone’s face… stupid kid (stupid youth pastor, too, but still…)
house arrest for killing someone, oh wait it was accidental and done by a man of the cloth… Am I the only one who thought of the Rabbi here in Seattle who killed one of the City Council Aids awhile back?
Accidental my ass…
I’d love to see all the events that transpired for a youth pastor to bring a bunch of teens over to his house to show them his sawed-off shotgun.
Is Dick Cheney responsible for the fact that, no matter how horrific the story, my initial reaction to the phrase “shot in the face” is to giggle? Or was it always funny?
Whenever I hear the phrase “shot in the face” I think of Ashton Kutcher’s messy face. 😉
What kind of toilet bowl brings a bunch of kids home and then shows them his shotgun? And then loads it before setting it aside in the other room? Jesus. That’s so stupid it makes ordinary run-of-the-mill stupid look like the Nobel Prize for physics.
Why were boys and girls recreating in the same room anyway?
Oh those wacky pro-lifers!
What the hell is wrong with people? I come from Hicksville, Pennsylvania (don’t bother looking it up, it’s figurative). We almost certainly have more guns in my home town than there are people. My family has a safe out in the workshop. It is filled with guns.
There are guns COMING OUT OF PEOPLE’S FUCKING EARS. Hell, I even own two (given to me by my grandpa before he died).
But you know what? We have next to zero accidents like this (and just as few “not-accidents”…again next to none). It’s because we’re raised around the things, and while they are a common item, we’re also taught from a very young age to know how the hell to handle them properly–what is safe and what isn’t. (One thing, for example, that young children are taught is that if you find a gun sitting around, DON’T TOUCH IT and find an adult.)
The first two things I ever learned about guns:
1. Always treat a gun as if it is loaded.
2. (A corollary of the first) NEVER point a gun at another person, even if you think it is not loaded.
And that doesn’t even go into the SHEER STUPIDITY of leaving a LOADED SHOTGUN SITTING UNLOCKED IN YOUR LIVING ROOM.
This is what happens when IDIOTS who haven’t had the proper safety education fool around with guns because the see them as just another big fancy toy. Wonder where (NRA) they (NRA) got (NRA) that (NRA) attitude (NRA) from…