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8. I stand corrected.

Reply to Poll_Blind (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 04:57 PM

Aug 2012

Yes, if they did indeed find a gun, then it makes sense that they could have missed it with a sloppy search and he accidentally shot himself somehow. But I guess all we can do is see how it shakes out. I feel terrible for the mother either way.

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I stand corrected. reflection Aug 2012 #8

Shot himself in the right temple? KamaAina Aug 2012 #10

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$10.00 worth of weed and 1 outstanding warrant noiretextatique Aug 2012 #18

And shot himself in the right temple? No gun found? BklnDem75 Aug 2012 #4

Gun found, see upthread. nt msanthrope Aug 2012 #9

Still doesn't explain the angle BklnDem75 Aug 2012 #11

Well, if I'm trying to get to a gun that is in my nether regions, or thereabouts, msanthrope Aug 2012 #14

At the side of your right temple? BklnDem75 Aug 2012 #15

Sure...we don't know the angle yet. msanthrope Aug 2012 #17

Sure he did. Eddie Haskell Aug 2012 #6

+1 MNBrewer Aug 2012 #7

+10000! Cooley Hurd Aug 2012 #19