Pistols as tools

You probably heard about it on the news a while back. A man was arrested for using a pistol as a tool. The guy was installing a satellite dish, and used his gun to blast a hole through the wall of his home, to run the cable through. I guess it was faster than getting out the drill and an extension cord. Sadly, his wife was on the other side of the wall. The bullet hit her, and she died. The husband was not charged with a crime. The thinking was, I guess, that he wasn’t bright enough to have done that on purpose. Probably true. I know some folks who shot a snake with a pistol. Unfortunately, the snake was in their kitchen at the time. The bullet went through the snake, through the floor, and through a water line under their home. In movies, people shoot locks off doors, using pistols. Seems to me the bullet would ricochet off the lock and burrow into your neck. I admit it – I’m no expert on pistols. Truth is, I have never fired one in my life. You don’t have to be a gun expert, though, to know pistols were never meant to be used as power tools. Otherwise, they would come with rechargeable batteries.