THE INSIDER: Licence (not) to shoot willy-nilly
A Florida man could find himself shooting blanks after he accidentally shot himself in his penis after sitting on a loaded gun
The right to bear arms is entrenched in the US constitution and the psyche of its population. Some would say this obsession with weapons manifests in the daily round-up of shooting deaths in that country, most of which no longer even raise an eyebrow in the rest of the world. However, any hot-blooded, all-American, gun-totin’ man also has the right, the Insider assumes, to bear a penis. For one Florida man, this is no longer the case. He accidentally shot himself in said anatomical part after sitting on a loaded gun he had left in his car. To add insult to the cruellest of injuries, he may be facing criminal charges for not possessing a licence for the gun in the first place. So the man, one Cedric Jelks, will spend his future wistfully thinking about the Second Amendment (also known as plastic surgery, in this case) without a gun and barely shooting blanks. Checking out IDC’s new check-in The state-mandated Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) will be releasing its annual finan...
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