What happened to the man with a gun speeding through a neighborhood with kids?

[Are_grits_groceries]

Driver shoots self in groin after neighbors stop him for speeding around kids

Residents of a neighborhood in Virginia say that an angry driver mistakenly shot himself in the groin after they flagged him down for speeding around children. Neighbors in a Norfolk community told WTKR that they never thought that asking 43-year-old Rhonney Jacobs to slow down would escalate into a shooting.

“My friends were standing right there in the yard and the guy came flying by and they were like ‘slow down, there’s kids’ and the guy did a U-turn and pulled over,” Ashley Summerson recalled.

Witnesses said that Jacobs got out of his car and started waiving around a gun, and then it went off. “[Jacobs] pulled his gun out trying to shoot one of them but he shot himself,” Summerson explained. “He was holding his groin and there was blood everywhere,” witness Zach Watson added.

WTKR reported that the children were only feet away from where the gun went off. “I’m just happy none of the kids got hurt,” Watson said. “I’d rather get shot than one of these kids.” Jacobs was charged with discharging a firearm and brandishing a firearm, according to The Virginian-Pilot.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/07/driver-shoots-self-in-groin-after-neighbors-stop-him-for-speeding-around-kids/

Just desserts!

[Orrex]

1. The best way to stop a bad groin with a gun...

[struggle4progress]

2. wo! so fulla win! wud it not be teh awsum if everbuddy like him hadda gun?

[RC]

3. Didn't he know enough to not point the gun at anything he did not intend to shoot?

[Igel]

5. He just fired a warning shot.

At himself.

[RC]

6. +10

But he took out his member.

[Loudly]

4. Guns in the hands of the public. A stupendously bad idea. n/t

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. First, he shoots his mouth off. Then he shoots his....

[bluestate10]

8. A responsible gun owner. According to the NRA, when a person buys a gun, he or she automatically

become responsible.

[freshwest]

9. “ pulled his gun out trying to shoot one of them but he shot himself,” but only

...charged with discharging a firearm and brandishing a firearm...

The charges don't sound as serious as what they said he was doing. Sure hope if he'd shot one of the kids or adults it would not be just an 'accident.' Hope he gets a mental health evaluation and his right to carry revoked.

Just sayin'