Wanna bet the gun wasn't in a holster?

[John Wayne]

/Cigarettes kill.

/Maybe he would be alive if he'd had a lot of gaudy platinum jewelry about his neck to deflect the bullet?

 

[RP88]

or if he "was not an unintended consequence of this evil, racist, backwards society that made him put a gun in his pocket"

 

[kyo]

this guy is getting a darwin award

 

[rondog]

I wonder if the rightful owner of said death weapon will get it back now....

 

[rainbowbob]

A gun in the back pocket not only goes off, but hits him in the chest, at a steep enough angle to penetrate a vital organ? I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this.

You ain't the only one.

Interesting speculations on the feasibility of the shot as described notwithstanding, this seems to defy the laws of anatomy and physics.

Reaching for the door, or his pants?

Even supposing he could accidentally pull the trigger of a firearm in his back pocket - wouldn't he practically have to be performing some kind of nameless unnatural act upon himself in order to get shot in the chest?

Not buying it.

 

[John Wayne]

Even supposing he could accidentally pull the trigger of a firearm in his back pocket - wouldn't he practically have to be performing some kind of nameless unnatural act upon himself in order to get shot in the chest?

Not necessarily. The gun could have slid out of his back pocket when he climbed in the seat, with the muzzle pointing forward toward the steering wheel. If he leaned forward to pick up something out of the floorboard, a button, snap, or other decoration on the pocket could have easily gone inside the trigger guard and pulled the trigger rearward as he bent over.

 

[searcher451]

There's a whole bunch about this discussion that is certainly not High Road, with an ugly tone set in the first half-dozen posts. It's a tough way to go out, a stupid way to go out, a puzzling way to go out. Is that cause to make light of it?

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Definitely Darwin award candidate.

It does make me wonder whether *any* gangbangers do use a holster for their handgun - maybe the sophisticated banger uses a Milt Sparks or Mitch Rosen for their Hi-Point. No wait, that won't work, because that requires a belt, and a belt would keep the pants UP, and we cannot have that, now can we?

Searcher, the reason people are making light of it, is because we have no sympathy for the victim here. The reason we have no sympathy for the victim here is this:

Cochran spent 10 months in prison after a conviction for strong-arm robbery

 

[sohcgt2]

I wonder if the rightful owner of said death weapon will get it back now....

Not with the serial no. removed

 

[pharmer]

"An outgoing person"-Translation: A belligerent thug that would just as soon kill you if he perceived a threat or "dis". Joe