{"id":194,"date":"2011-09-03T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/paintball-shot\/"},"modified":"2011-09-03T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T19:58:58","slug":"paintball-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/paintball-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Paintball Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air and paintball gun injuries caused more than 20,000 ER visits in 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2011) \u2014 Hospital emergency departments saw over 20,000 injuries<\/strong> due to air and paintball guns in 2008, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This represents a 20 percent decrease<\/strong> in emergency room visits for injuries caused by air and paintball guns from 2006.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are two things that bring more people to this blog through Google. They are this photo of a wound from paintball and the words “clever trever.”<\/p>\n

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I have to wonder, is it just morbid curiosity? Do paintballers want to see a wicked<\/em> wound? Does it please<\/em> them?<\/p>\n

Let me tell you the story that goes with the picture, if you don’t know it already. In 2003, my wife and I were walking our dog Lucky around our neighborhood after dark as we did every night. On this occasion, a car sped up behind us. We heard two small explosions and each instantly felt searing pain in our backs. As awful as that pain was — and it was intense — it was nothing compared to seeing the expression on Merri’s face when she cried “I’ve been shot!” while grappling with my own overwhelming fear and pain. It was horrible and I wish a comparable misery on the shooter and his gang. The shooter who cackled wickedly as the car sped by. <\/p>\n

Remember, guns don’t shoot people, idiots shoot people. And brutal, cowardly idiots shoot strangers in the back<\/strong>. mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

PS- Since many of the “clever trever” searchers come from the UK, I trust they are not looking for my take on the Albuquerque Journal’s not-so-clever editorial cartoonist, John Trever (Clever Trever Two<\/a>, What An Ass We Have In Trever<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First published 6 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air and paintball gun injuries caused more than 20,000 ER visits in 2008 ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2011) \u2014 Hospital emergency departments saw over 20,000 injuries due to air and paintball guns in 2008, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This represents a 20 percent decrease in … Continue reading Photo of Paintball Wound<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","category-photos","tag-paintball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}