Investigators believe alcohol may have been a factor in a Thursday incident where a Michigan man fired his shotgun at two vacuum cleaner salesmen, Grand Rapids TV station WOOD reported.
The Isabella County Sheriff’s Department said that the two salesman knocked on the door of a home in Fremont Township, where the suspect gestured from inside the home to indicate that he would attend to them in a moment.
The salesmen became suspicious when the suspect walked out of the home to his garage, however, and decided to leave. The suspect then allegedly fired two shots with a 20-gauge shotgun as the men drove away, according to the sheriff’s department.
No one was hurt in the incident. Investigators believe alcohol could have been a factor, the sheriff’s department said, and the suspect faces charges of assault and reckless discharge of a firearm.
At some point the Red States’ massive paranoia and idiocy will bring those economies to a crashing halt.
Stupidity is a self-solving problem over time.
In college I spent a few months doing door-to-door sales, usually in the lower income neighborhoods. For 95% of the time, it was ok. Dozens of people screaming at me to get the F off their property, but that was just a daily part of the job. But there were maybe 5 scary incidents in the few months I worked (6 days a week) that job. Overall, not a safe job to go knocking, unannounced and uninvited, on stranger’s doors trying to sell them crap they don’t want or need. Especially in questionable neighborhoods. I had people follow me on foot or in their cars for several houses, even blocks, angry questions, taunting. Guns in hand at the door or in the car. Never had a gun pointed at me or shot at, but definitely had some bad moments and was threatened. Worst was a car that followed me for a while, finally pulled up, two trashy older dudes with shotgun clearly (purposefully) visible giving me the angry stink-eye third degree. Also, believe it or not, there was no hazard pay!
But the key here is that he did it responsibly. He was a responsible gun owner … he was a responsible gun owner when he got drunk in the middle of the day in a house full of guns, he was responsible when he got furious that someone would bother him while he was busy getting drunk in a house full of guns, and he was responsible when he went and got one of those guns because of the previous mentioned furor.
True, he magically morphed into an irresponsible gun owner when he pulled the triggered as he tried to kill two random strangers who didn’t pose him any threat just because he was drunk and mad, but the good news is that as soon as he took his finger off of the trigger, he morphed back into a responsible gun owner, so no harm no foul. The key here is responsible.
As an aside, if he had killed those two people, he probably would had stood proudly over the corpses and told the people that it was SYG.
As the GOP-NRA tell us, if only this drunk old man had an assault rifle with armor piercing bullets, then everyone would have been SAFER. If only us liberals didn’t violate this old man’s right to rocket propelled grenades, then everyone would have been so much SAFER in that situation.
Do they still have door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen?