For the people who are afraid guns get in the wrong hands  

They will shoot off their own hand!

Sun-Times Media Wire

March 25, 2010 (GREEN GARDEN TWP., Ill.) -- A 20-year-old Will County man accidentally shot himself in the hand while he and a friend were shooting at an abandoned farmhouse earlier this month in the far southwest suburbs.

Matthew B. Eastman and Nicholas A. Bastian, both 20, were returning to Eastman's residence at 11103 W. Dralle Road in Green Garden Township near Monee, reportedly after shooting at an abandoned farmhouse with a .45-caliber handgun and a .22-caliber rifle, according to Will County Sheriff's Police.

"The two then stopped their vehicle in order to shoot the guns again, at which time Eastman accidentally shot himself in the right hand," police said.

Eastman was taken to Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet and treated, before being charged with unlawful use of a weapon and unauthorized possession of a firearm, according to Will County Sheriff's office spokesman Pat Barry.

Bastian, of 27359 Wildwood in Monee, was not injured, Barry said, but was charged with unlawful use of a weapon.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire - Copyright Chicago Sun-Times 2009.)


See? Not to worry. The stupid will usually flush themselves out!