Stupid people with guns.
a Fond du Lac, Wis., man, in the abdomen, while using a screwdriver to dislodge a round from his pistol (August);
a Nacogdoches, Texas, woman, in the foot while trying to kill a snake on her property (September) (and the same woman, again trying to kill a snake, shot herself in the other foot the next day);
a Tennessee Highway Patrolman, in the leg as he holstered his pistol while chasing a fleeing suspect near Maryville (August);
a teenage boy, in the leg while fleeing after robbing a food store in New Caney, Texas (August);
a 33-year-old Milwaukee man, in the leg while fleeing after robbing a man on the street (October).
And Danny Walden, Taylorsville, Ky., was shot by the rifle he had set up in his home as a booby trap to protect his 115 marijuana plants (October).
Thinning the herd.
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