A man tries to make gun-control proponents look dumb through his "smart" aleck experiment, but makes himself look dumb in the process
I just stumbled across a letter-to-the-editor published in the Hartford Courant which may have placed me in a permanent facepalm pose. The letter is entitled "Guns Don't Kill People, Etc.," was written by one Donald K. Martin of Windsor Locks, and published on March 19th of this year. The letter reads as follows: "Yesterday I placed my shotgun on the front porch, gave it six shells, and noticing it had no legs, placed it in a wheelchair to help it get around. I left it alone and went about my business. While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the boy across the street picked up my yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near my house. After 10 hours, I checked on the shotgun. It was still sitting in the wheelchair. It had not rolled outside and It had not killed anyone in spite of many opportunities that had been presented. It had not even loaded itself. Can you imagine how surprised I was with a...