The dog bite man is hardly news, but in Tennessee, a dog recently shot a man.
In just the latest example of the kind of accidental shooting that occurs intermittently in the United States, Gerald Kirkwood reported to Memphis police that he and the woman were lying in bed with firearms when the dog jumped up and accidentally let the weapon go out of hospital.
According to the local news agency WREG, which cited police, the bullet grazeed the man over his left thigh. Wreg explained how Oreo, a one-year-old pit bull from Kirkwood, stepped into the trigger guard of the owner’s gun. Oreo eventually squeezed the trigger and fired the owner.
The woman accompanying Kirkwood and Oreo reportedly left the house where the shooting occurred while the injured man was taken to hospital in a non-critical state, and had a gun.
The Fox 13 News Station in Memphis later said that Oreo spoke to the woman who explained to the outlet that “is a playful dog, he likes to fly around, he likes things like that, and it just disappeared.”
Asked if Oreo woke up because he jumped into bed or because her companion was shot, the woman told Fox 13: Yes, a combination of the two. “Oreo’s owner and woman agreed that the station would not name it in its report — reportedly said that it would certainly attract the safety of the guns in their homes moving forward.
According to Fox 13, “Stay safe, maintain a trigger lock, use a trigger lock, or use a trigger lock.
Nonprofit Brady: United against Gun Violence has discovered since 2019 that the law governing access to firearms is the most common type of gun injury that requires hospitalization in the United States, which is well-known in contrast to other advanced democrats.
Meanwhile, a 2018 global firearm ownership survey estimated that guns owned by US civilians have more than 340 million.
Kirkwood wasn’t the only one who was shot by his pet.
Richard Rem of Fort Dodge, Iowa, reported that he was shot in one of his legs in a gun shoved into his waistband while rough-hauling in Balew, a Pit Bull Labrador mix.
In 2019, former Louisiana State football player Matt Branch publicly discussed how his Black Labrador retriever intervened in a hunting shotgun placed behind a utility terrain vehicle on a Mississippi hunting trip.
The shotgun shot a branch in one of his legs. The branch’s leg was then amputated. He was unconscious for 12 days, but survived the ordeal.
Eventually, Branch, equipped with titanium prosthetics, decided to start walking again, return to work and continue his hunt.
“I wasn’t losing my leg, I was happy to be alive,” Brunch told Clarion Leisure in Mississippi.
