Woman shot in bathroom stall
Florida, one of the first states in the nation to pass "Shall Issue" Concealed Carry laws, reports a Negligent Discharge incident ... in the lady's room of a Tampa hotel.
TAMPA - A Tampa woman is recovering from a gunshot wound she received while using the bathroom at local hotel. Police say Thursday morning, 53-year-old Janifer Bliss was attending a women's health conference at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center on Fowler Avenue in Tampa.She was inside a bathroom stall, when a bullet came from the next stall and hit her in the leg.
There she was, innocently attending to her 'personal business', when a shot rings out and she collapses in a pool of blood.
(No word whether she had completed her 'personal business'.)
The woman in the next stall had just completed the 'drop trousers' portion of her personal business when the pistol she was carrying in an open holster (read: unsecured by strap, etc.) dropped out, hit the floor, and zinged Ms. Bliss a good one in the near hind limb.
Ambulances, policemen, janitors ... oh my!
Getting shot in the leg isn't something to make light of, but the circumstances are admittedly bizarre.
The pistol-packing mama was a concealed carry license holder, and the District Attorney's office is determining whether charges will be filed.
Which is a lesson to us all, at least those who do carry.
Do secure your firearm. CCW licensees are carefully vetted by the authorities, and are rarely charged with firearms-related felonies. Still, there is a disturbing tendency to carry 'sloppily'.
(I recall an Oregon man last year who had a .45acp in the pocket of his jacket, which hit the floor when he slung his jacket over a restaurant chair resulting in loud, rude noises and considerable upset to the other patrons. He's cooking his own breakfasts at home now.)
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