Man shoots wife going to bathroom, mistaking her for burglar
Source: Associated Press
Updated 3:29 pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (AP) Authorities in Florida say a man shot his wife twice when she went to the bathroom, saying he mistook her for a burglar.
Winter Garden police said the couple thought they heard an intruder in the home, but after checking their suburban Orlando home, they both went to bed.
Local media report the wife, Allison Simmons, got up to go to the restroom about 45 minutes later and used her phone's light to find her way. When she got out, she woke her husband, Nathan Simmons, who shot at her two times fearing it was the intruder they were seeking.
Allison was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment with non-life-threatening injuries.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-shoots-wife-on-bathroom-break-mistaking-her-12871781.php
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Now, tell us why you really shot her.
TheBlackAdder
(28,249 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,505 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)Yay Flodiduh...
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)its so commonplace to shoot your wife
PJMcK
(22,068 posts)...Floridians discover that water is wet.
Details at 11.
RockRaven
(15,075 posts)your day-to-day existence must be that you react to this situation this way. How miserable.
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,650 posts)rpannier
(24,350 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,843 posts)JI7
(89,286 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,067 posts)SunSeeker
(51,794 posts)groundloop
(11,530 posts)If ----I---- kept a loaded gun in my house ----I---- would always use perfect judgement - even if awakened from a deep sleep in the middle of the night. ----MY---- gun would never be picked up by young children, even if kept in an unlocked nightstand drawer because my kids know better. ----I---- went to the gun range last year so ----I---- am perfectly prepared to take out a bad guy in a crisis situation.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)Just like everyone else.
Until the moment you're not....
FailureToCommunicate
(14,031 posts)jayschool2013
(2,318 posts)Too soon?
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)lastlib
(23,362 posts)So sad that people in this country think killing someone is the solution to a problem.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)I would suggest jewelry. Or she may take that gun and....
ashling
(25,771 posts)a la Herr Trump
dameatball
(7,404 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)sakabatou
(42,202 posts)kill a family member than someone who broke into your home?
SunSeeker
(51,794 posts)A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used to kill or injure in a domestic homicide, suicide, or unintentional shooting than to be used in self-defense. (Kellermann, Arthur L.MD, MPH, et al. Injuries and Deaths Due to Firearms in the Home. Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 45 (1998): 263-67)
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Even if you go "but half the deaths are suicide" that's still an extremely high number.
SunSeeker
(51,794 posts)Guns make it a lot easier to act on what it usually a passing suicidal urge, making an episode of depression fatal. I lost a friend in high school to a gun suicide. She did it in her bedroom with the family gun.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)A gun in the house will make it so much easier to act on those actions.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)And self defense could be necessary if his wife fell in ... just sayin'
tblue37
(65,527 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Didn't that famous amputee use that excuse when he riddled his live-in gf with bullets while she was in the bathroom?
Another one: Oops! This is the second time a wife of mine fell down the stairs & got her head bashed in and died...when I was the only other person here! What a coincidence!
keithbvadu2
(37,025 posts)How did your first spouse die? - Accidentally ate poison mushrooms.
How did your second spouse die? - Accidentally ate poison mushrooms.
How did your third spouse die? - Accidentally fell off a cliff... Didn't like mushrooms.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That made me laugh out loud. Funny.
louis-t
(23,309 posts)Elliot finds out his long lost love is back in town.
Meets her to have dinner and get acquainted again.
She tells him she got married but husband fell overboard and drowned.
She married again, but on a trip around the world, husband #2 fell overboard and drowned.
Then she met husband #3. After a brief marriage, he also died.
Elliot, getting suspicious, says "Don't tell me he drowned, too."
"No", she says, "he accidentally shot himself in the back with a spear gun."
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)OK
kimbutgar
(21,258 posts)I watch too much of ID Tv to spot the bs.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)The only thing that stops a husband with a gun is a wife with a gun...
weissmam
(905 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,113 posts)just in case there are in sarcasm-impared here.
Yavin4
(35,454 posts)Now, in this situation, which one is which?
kairos12
(12,895 posts)is a lunatic with a gun.
paleotn
(18,012 posts)Most humpers couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from 20 feet.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Guy didnt notice his wife wasnt in the bed???
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)get two of them?
Iggo
(47,587 posts)He shot an innocent person.
If being found to be in possession of less than a gram of a party drug is grounds to deny someone their 2nd amendment right forever, surely shooting an innocent person should carry AT LEAST that penalty.
Fuck the Oops Defense.
Bring down the hammer.
WhiteTara
(29,731 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,605 posts)unless they don't sleep in the same bed.............
Kaleva
(36,394 posts)Stay in the bedroom and call the police.
LSFL
(1,110 posts)Always making KY look slightly better.
Sancho
(9,071 posts)So you hear an intruder and hunt for the crook yourself - but don't call the police (we're talking about a suburb in Orlando folks, not a farm in Kansas). Good think she didn't mistake the gun for her phone on the nightstand.
Another link: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/police-man-shoots-wife-twice-thinking-shes-intruder-/738959606
People Control, Not Gun Control
This is my generic response to gun threads where people are shot and killed by the dumb or criminal possession of guns. For the record, I grew up in the South and on military bases. I was taught about firearms as a child, and I grew up hunting, was a member of the NRA, and I still own guns. In the 70s, I dropped out of the NRA because they become more radical and less interested in safety and training. Some personal experiences where people I know were involved in shootings caused me to realize that anyone could obtain and posses a gun no matter how illogical it was for them to have a gun. Also, easy access to more powerful guns, guns in the hands of children, and guns that werent secured are out of control in our society. As such, heres what I now think ought to be the requirements to possess a gun. Im not debating the legal language, I just think its the reasonable way to stop the shootings. Notice, none of this restricts the type of guns sold. This is aimed at the people who shoot others, because its clear that they should never have had a gun.
1.) Anyone in possession of a gun (whether they own it or not) should have a regularly renewed license. If you want to call it a permit, certificate, or something else that's fine.
2.) To get a license, you should have a background check, and be examined by a professional for emotional and mental stability appropriate for gun possession. It might be appropriate to require that examination to be accompanied by references from family, friends, employers, etc. This check is not to subject you to a mental health diagnosis, just check on your superficial and apparent gun-worthyness.
3.) To get the license, you should be required to take a safety course and pass a test appropriate to the type of gun you want to use.
4.) To get a license, you should be over 21. Under 21, you could only use a gun under direct supervision of a licensed person and after obtaining a learners license. Your license might be restricted if you have children or criminals or other unsafe people living in your home. (If you want to argue 18 or 25 or some other age, fine. 21 makes sense to me.)
5.) If you possess a gun, you would have to carry a liability insurance policy specifically for gun ownership - and likely you would have to provide proof of appropriate storage, security, and whatever statistical reasons that emerge that would drive the costs and ability to get insurance.
6.) You could not purchase a gun or ammunition without a license, and purchases would have a waiting period.
7.) If you possess a gun without a license, you go to jail, the gun is impounded, and a judge will have to let you go (just like a DUI).
8.) No one should carry an unsecured gun (except in a locked case, unloaded) when outside of home. Guns should be secure when transporting to a shooting event without demonstrating a special need. Their license should indicate training and special carry circumstances beyond recreational shooting (security guard, etc.). If you are carrying your gun while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you lose your gun and license.
9.) If you buy, sell, give away, or inherit a gun, your license information should be recorded.
10.) If you accidentally discharge your gun, commit a crime, get referred by a mental health professional, are served a restraining order, etc., you should lose your license and guns until reinstated by a serious relicensing process.
Most of you know that a license is no big deal. Besides a drivers license you need a license to fish, operate a boat, or many other activities. I realize these differ by state, but that is not a reason to let anyone without a bit of sense pack a semiautomatic weapon in public, on the roads, and in schools. I think we need to make it much harder for some people to have guns.
For those who want to argue legality, please reference: The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman
Alwaysna
(574 posts)In the middle of the night should she wet the bed for revenge?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)shot her a second time to make sure she wasn't.
morons with guns.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)dreamland
(964 posts)She should be packing her own from now on.
truthisfreedom
(23,166 posts)They have built-in flashlights and pointer lasers. They reach 15 feet. Theyre generally non-lethal.
IronLionZion
(45,623 posts)Divorce isn't that difficult