Insult To Injury

Why You Should Pay Attention During Gun Safety Lectures

For four long, tension-filled days and nights, Missouri lawmen scoured the Show-Me state in one of the most intense manhunts in recent area history. Their quarry: a motiveless, anonymous, nondescript suspect who was wanted for the seemingly cold-blooded random shooting of a 25-year-old Butler County Sheriff’s Deputy. Tony Dow.

Fresh-faced rookies, dreaming of locker-room notoriety, checked every bar and roadhouse while seasoned detectives pumped their snitches for a name, a license plate, that snippet of scoop that would “make their bones” and get ’em back into the captain’s good graces.

After all, it ain’t every day a hometown Missourian gets to slap the shackles on a for-real cop-shooter. Probably one of them long-haired California cocaine cowboys, whattaya bet?

Then Tony rained on the parade. Deputy Dow, faced with the snowballing effects of his subterfuge, finally admitted he had shot himself while foolin’ around, tossing his gun in the air.

It was not immediately known if he had seen the movie “Maverick,” but it was immediately guessed he may soon be considering other career options. Good guess, we guess.

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Mark Moritz hung up his satirical spurs last issue to a collective sigh of relief from America’s gunwriters whom he had lampooned in “Friendly Fire” for two long, painful years. The 10 Ring is written by Commander Gilmore, a retired San Diego police officer who bases his humor, like Mark did, on actual occurrences. All the incidents described by the Commander are true.

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