“Assault rifle” up and kills woman
Yes, that’s how the Huffington Post tells the story of an inebriated 22-year-old Anastasia Adair in Denver the other day. Apparently, she was handing what the HuffPost calls an AK-47 (but who knows what the weapon was given the inability of the media to correctly identify any weapons and AK-47 is a catch-all phrase for scary-looking guns) back to her husband when she shot her self in the head. When she was struck by the bullet, Mrs. Adair dropped the weapon and it discharged again, hitting no one. It’s being called an accident.
Of course, the problem isn’t the gun, it’s irresponsible and untrained people handling a firearm. It probably would have happened with a bolt action, a lever action, or even a single shot rifle, but lucky for the media it was a semiautomatic rifle which killed Mrs. Adair. And semiautomatic rifle is too hard to spell, so HuffPost calls it an assault rifle to scare their readers.
They go on tell us how owning a gun makes us more likely to shoot ourselves
According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 606 people were killed by unintentional firearm injuries in the United States in 2010.
Additionally, the advocacy site quotes a 2001 study, “Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths,” that maintains the following:
People of all age groups are significantly more likely to die from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns, relative to states with fewer guns. On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels.
The Adairs had purchased the assault weapon at a gun show in March, according to KMGH.
Oh, good, you know they were just prancing up a storm at HuffPost when they discovered that there was a gun show involved. That made their “assault rifle” more dangerous, you know.
But let’s look at the string of mistakes the Adair family made which actually resulted in Ms. Adair’s tragic death. Alcohol was involved, obviously she wasn’t trained to handle a weapon because she had her finger on the trigger, or her husband did when she handed it to him, and the weapon was pointed her head, alcohol was involved. Yeah, I know I said it twice, because it’s twice as important. Who drags out their loaded firearms and takes that firearm off of “safe” and starts passing it around during an alcohol-saturated party? Apparently Anastasia Adair, according to an article in Denver’s ABC Channel News;
Witnesses and the husband told police the group had been drinking in the garage of the couple’s home at 10024 Elliot St. when 22-year-old Anastasia Adair, a new gun enthusiast, went upstairs to a bedroom to get her recently purchased assault rifle.
Anastasia was walking back down the stairs into the garage when she reached out to hand the rifle to her husband, Shane Adair, who was below her on the stairs. The gun fired, striking her in the head, two witnesses and the husband told police.
Again, as always, it’s not the gun, it’s the people handling guns. At least Anastasia Adair was the only one who was injured by her own carelessness.
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Oh NOZ! Scary death machine! They should outlaw those!
How the hell does one shoot oneself in the head with a rifle while handing it to someone else??? I smell a rat.
How is this even possible? I seriously want to know. Was she holding the barrel in her mouth while passing the weapon off telling the person to take it by pressing the trigger? What a dumbass.
Wait… 606 deaths? As opposed to how many deaths of accidentally cutting an artery in the kitchen, slipping in the bathroom, legal drug overdose, or alcohol poisoning?
Rather than show what she did wrong, they would blame an inanimate object because it is a politically hot topic. However, what about all of those people who don’t accidentally shoot themselves in the head because they DON’T handle their firearms while intoxicated? Or, perhaps, those smart people who don’t keep their weapon locked-and-loaded in storage?
Darwin award candidate.
@5 ohio-
you beat me to the punch. I was waiting till next week to request the report and submit it to Darwin
Act like a fool, get carried out like one
Someone else who posts on TAH says it far better than I, “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”. Sorry for borrowing your well thought out phrase but it applies here. Alcohol, guns, new gun owners, show and tell time…it all adds up to cluster f-ck.
Local reporting didn’t include the “assault rifle” hyperbole:
http://www.9news.com/news/article/336527/339/PD-Woman-killed-while-showing-gun-to-friends
I literally got done explaining to my teenage son less than a half hour ago why nearly every single incident that’s labeled as an accidental discharge should be described as a negligent discharge. I told him I hated to make it sound like a cliche, because people ignore cliches, but if you follow the 4 rules you’ll almost completely eliminate the chance of ever putting a bullet into something you don’t intend to. So… Fail to treat a weapon as if it’s loaded? Check. Allow the muzzle to cover something you don’t want destroyed (ie, your own head)? Check. Put your finger on the trigger when you’re not aiming at something you want to shoot? Check.
And good point about the type of rifle being irrelevant. It could have been a reproduction Kentucky long rifle or a Cricket .22 and if she pointed it at her head with one in the pipe and her drunk husband squeezed the trigger she’d be just as dead.
By the way, Flagwaver – according to the Institute of Medicine, as many as 98,000 deaths a year can be attributed to mistakes during treatment. So even if we take the gun grabbers’ stats at face value, negligent discharges account for 0.6% as many deaths per year as negligent doctors. Ironic that the government thinks we need more doctors in our lives and fewer guns.
you guys are totally missing the tragedy here. this poor woman in her prime, celebrating with her family, and this mean, no, EVIL, black scary gun broke into her house and shot her dead! would yall find it so funny if a black scary gun broke into your house and started shooting people? i dont think so. stop making jokes at this families tragedy and call the DA to ensure that he prosecutes the BSG to the fullest! we want the death penalty for this BSG, and demand he name his co-conspirators. you know haliburton and bush are behind this and we are going to prove it!
ok seriously, this sounds like the husband shot his wife and is too embarassed to admit it
all the Basic Safety Rules were broken. However, using this logic, I figured out why Calif has so many car crashes…. we have more cars. So, we should stop doing any kind of driver safety training because “States with more cars are just going to have more accidents” (which sounds like typical “give up because we don’t know what to do” attitude.)
lets see here,,,a drunk chick named Anastasia, a loaded weapon and stairs! what could possibly go wrong?
friggin drunk moron’s
Apparently, the last year that the census bureau compiled numbers for fatal car crashes was 2009. Using their figures, in 2009, 33,808 people were killed in car crashes. This isn’t even mentioning those who died as a result of “mistakes during treatment” that Andy N pointed out.
We have to ban cars, trucks, SUV’s and doctors and nurses immediately,
If you take the 606 deaths noted at face value, the implication is that this constitutes a major population group.
The hyperbole that reporters get into is meant to suggest that 606 deaths happens to a large number of people in a small population, which implies that the US population is only about 4100 people instead of 310 million. Numbers always mean more when they’re misused.
Wonder what the odds are of it being a fatal trip if you have a scary black gun in your car on the way to a hospital. Hmmm. Add a gang banger, a few drinks, and a kitchen knife and those odds must be pretty good.
This whole story strikes me as suspicious. So she was handing the rifle to her husband and it “just went off”? And the chamber just happened to be loaded, and the safety just happened to be off, and the muzzle just happened to be pointed directly at her head? Wow, what an amazing string of tragic coincidences.
If I was the police, I would be asking a lot of questions along the lines of: What was the state of their marriage? Were they known to be fighting a lot and experiencing discord? Had there been any talk about divorce? What kind of life insurance did she have, and when was the policy taken out, and by whom? Is there a mistress lurking in the woodwork somewhere? And who are these “witnesses” and how were they related to the couple in question?
Just seems very fishy to me.
If, on the other hand, it does turn out to be the result of negligence (I refuse to use the word “accident” to describe something completely foreseeable and preventable), Sympathy Meter = Zero for people who buy guns because they are “cool”, and then can’t be bothered to obtain proper instruction in their use, or even learn the most basic safety procedures.
The hell of it is, this husband will probably end up with the Brady Campaign, going around telling sob stories about how the evil “assault rifle” killed his beautiful bride, when in fact it was his own drunken stupidity and incompetence that killed her.
We had a murder case here locally in the 90’s, a local physician was killed by her hubby, he claimed she was cleaning the bore for him while rifle went off accidentally . The prick is in prison for murder now!
@18.
CACTI!!!! 2-35.
@16. Maybe the “witnesses” were his brother and his other brother? It’s amazing how some people can string a whole bunch of coincidences together.
ANd once again, the Gun Control Trolls are dancing in the blood of another victim (a stupid self-inflicted victim, but a victim none-the-less) while waving the bloody shirt.
This just raises the Stupid Bar another notch.
I agree with Hayabusa. Drinking in the garage? Handing someone a rifle, stock first? Accidental discharge?
Sorry, but it doesn’t add up. This story stinks like a three-day-old dead fish.
@16, as a cop, i am right behind ya. there are too many coincidences to just dismiss this as accidental homicide. it may end up that is what it was, but it should be thoroughly investigated
I once responded to a medical aid call where a guy (bearded hippie moron who somehow had a gun) was trying to show his very hot young wife (dipshit did NOT deserve her) how to disassemble his XD .40, and managed to blow some snakeshot through the palm of his hand and pepper her across both kneecaps with it.
If anybody’s not familiar with it, you disassemble the Springfield XD by locking the slide back, flipping the takedown lever, dropping the slide back into battery, then pulling the trigger. Fucknuts thought it was a great idea to do this with a full mag inserted, and had no idea why it fired. He even had the audacity to call me a dick when I identified the problem for him and advised him that A) he’s a dumbass, and B) while I’m strongly pro-2nd Amendment, he’s way too stupid to be armed.
I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried. I guess my point is that I can believe this story, based on having personal experience with this level of stupidity. However, I wouldn’t call this a “negligent discharge.” “Retard discharge” sounds more appropriate to me.
Darwin at work
“… **irresponsible and untrained people** handling a firearm … ‘Anastasia Adair, a **new gun enthusiast**, went upstairs to a bedroom to get her recently purchased [military pattern semiautomatic rifle] … ‘”
In addition to a) alcohol being involved and b) finger on the trigger, let’s add c) failure of Mrs. Adair to open the action to verify the weapon wasn’t loaded, and d) failure of her husband to insist she do so before taking the weapon from her — both things Dad taught me *long* before I ever fired my first round.
Darwin award, my a$$. This is very likely a murder.
I’m with valerie; “She had gone into her house to get the gun to show to friends who were gathered in the garage of her home. As the victim was handing over the gun to her husband, it discharged and struck Adair.” courtesy 9News-Denver.
Way, way back in the old days responded to a shooting, 30’s female, 1 ea. Couple were out in the county shooting at an old rifle range that others used as well. Statement of husband was: Victim supposedly handed off her empty .22 rifle (Remington nylon, tubular mag) to husband for reloading. He in turn was handing her another .22 and claimed it discharged handing it off with his left hand on the butt.
This family was trained in safe weapons handling, this couple and their kids attended the same classes everybody else from around the area did, that wanted too. Things simply kept not adding up until well after the state M/E autopsy report came back. Entry wound as evidenced by photography, indicated she was turning her head away from the barrel, downward/right tilt. Additional evidence showed her left hand wrapped around end sight, slight wound and GSR on end of thumb. Tox report no alcohol or drugs, yada yada.
Husband got off, accidential discharge. Couple of years later, kids that clammed up tighter n crap were at a local pizza establishment, shooting pool, oggling girls and telling an entirely different story. Whether they were telling the truth of not, one body was exhumed and investigation back underway. Husband had married a woman he was known to accompany, before and after and relocated to different jurisdiction. He didn’t like the feel of silver braclets either.
Point is, if this was something like that, sooner or later the law will find out.
Well shit, if a gun can do that, why aren’t we dropping shitloads of them in Afghanistan? Apparently we don’t need some actual humans involved, so pull the troops out, drop the rifles in, and wait six months till the issue resolves itself. :p
C’mon, left/libtards, you know want to go “Ban those evil guns… for the tyranny… er, children!!”
I second the “murder” comments… if she ws handing it to her old man, even if it was somehow her hand on the trggger it should be moving away from her. Odds are he grabbed the gun via sticking a finder through the trigger guard like an idiot. Manslaughter at absolute minimum.
I agree on the possibility of murder. And I think the police do go into every “accidental” shooting with that thought in their mind.
As an aside…I grew up in an area where guns and alcohol seemed to always get mixed up together. Not funny when someone’s tender body got in between the two.
We lose more then 25,000 to slip and fall deaths, 600 deaths out of 311 million population is nothing…well it’s something if your family is involved.
Could be evolution is finally weeding some folks out of the gene pool. We arrogant humans are constantly under the impression we can change nature and the world…when nature and the world no longer need us in the ecological chain we will understand what nature and evolution actually does to a biological system that fails to grow stronger and smarter.
At some point we need to stop worrying about stupid. I quickly learned a long time ago that it’s almost impossible to solve for stupid even with better algorithms…
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somewhere in the usa, i forget where and what city, they passed a law that every home “must have” a firearm. crime dropped. people did not get prosecuted for breaking that law but it worked. hopefully nature’s natural selection will do the rest and not get innocent, evolved, intelligent life forms to pay for the mutated negligence of the rest of our species. fu(k i hate de-evolved humans!!!
p.s. the “government” WANTS me to have a fire extinguisher in case of fire because the fire department is 15 minutes away…???…so they want me to be self protected from fire but not armed criminals???[not really. i live in canada and we just need to have safety training before we can own a weapon] some day the usa government and citizenry will learn that firearms ownership should be a respected and earned right and not a demanded one. why would you want any crazy, unbalanced, criminal, immoral, sociopathic, demented, insane, easily angered, recently divorced or separated, felonious, depressed, untrained fellow citizen to be able to walk into a store and buy a gun of any type??? please stop seeking the easy road by making weapons a universal right. do the hard thing, take the road less traveled and make gun ownership a hard, perilous, not easily obtainable and respected right…otherwise your rights were so easily obtained that you merely had to be born like any other fool in your country. [here in canada we don’t let fools buy guns just because they were born here, we fools have to pass very hard written and hands on tests and pass background checks and doctors have to certify us mentally stable. i guess that’s why we don’t have a gun problem like in the usa]
@35- tell you what: when you can tell me the difference between a 5.56 round fired from an AR-15 and a .223 round fired from a Remington 700, I’ll listen to what a resident of America’s hat thinks about our gun “problem”
@35. Problem with your idiocy is that it is our right to own firearms. So, you just stay on up there north of our borders, and keep the fuck out of our business. You do not dictate what we can and can not do as citizens of the most free Nation in the world. Let your freedoms slip away, we’ll keep ours.