He should have done it like this.
Thank ghod we prevented a criminal from acquiring that weapon instead-someone might have gotten hurt!
Ack! Can one suffer from sympathetic dizziness?
He must have misunderstood the common statement that guns are just a type of tool.
As someone who has installed a dish without killing anyone, I would also point out that the hole does not go through the whole wall, you drill theough the outer siding and use anchor bolts. Was he planning to use bolts and nuts to anchor it to the inside of the house?
I cannot fathom the depth of “Teh Stoopid” it takes to think this was a good idea even without killing his wife (or anyone else) in the process.
Nah, I’m pretty sure she got drilled! 
I’m surprised that a .22 was able to punch through an exterior wall and a person. I thought those things were just slightly more powerful than a pellet gun.
But yeah, no matter the caliber of the gun, that was just extremely stupid.
It’s only a small powder charge in Hilti gun which drives a 2 1/2" carbide nail into concrete. Besides, .22 is the projectile size. The amount of propellant determines how powerfully the bullet is fired.
Now see, isn’t there a type of gun control that could prevent something like this? Some sort of simple intelligence test?
(Reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons, when Homer gets a gun.)
Not really. Passing a test while calm is no guarantee that a person won’t behave in a batshit crazy manner at some future juncture. Intelligence wise, someone could be as dumb as a box of rocks, yet still have respect for and obey rules regarding the safe handling of firearms.
I don’t know any more than what it says on the news about this (and being local, it’s been on a lot), but this whole thing sounds fishy to me. Although a .22 handgun can punch through a wall, it’s also a very low-powered round, which takes a really good shot to kill under the best circumstances, and after being slowed and deformed passing through a wall I wonder just how much energy and shape was left to penetrate deep into a body and actually kill someone.
It’s not impossible, and I’m sure scads of people will line up to post their anecdotes about how they split the engine block of a 460 Ford with a .22, and yes people have died from even pellet guns. But I’ve shot tens, if not hundreds of thousands of .22 rounds, at every composition of common object imaginable (including through wall sections, shingles, gypsum wallboard, etc. at a tip), and based on that experience I put the odds of this being an accident as very low, and the odds of it being him getting mad and shooting at his wife, and trying to cover it up as an accident, to be somewhat higher.
Damn. Although if you’re batshit, (certified, I mean), isn’t that grounds, IIRC?
Both in her and the wall
Yeah…even if he was right that his whole family was inside the house, guess who would still have been outside the house, and thus, in theory, vulnerable?
Everyone else on earth.
Sailboat
IIRC, having been deemed mentally deficient by a court of law does disqualify one from firearm ownership. However, that relies on a system to verify the accuracy of checkboxes on a purchase form, and further assumes the purchase takes place at a retail weapons dealer. Private purchases in which paperwork isn’t filed, parties who share a dwelling with a legal firearms owner, and those whose mental condition deteriorates over time wouldn’t be addressed by such controls.
Yes, everybody else on earth was outside, but only those in close proximity were endangered by his stupidity. He wasn’t presenting a danger to someone more than a mile or so away.
I think it is safe to say that this guy poses a danger to the entire world.
Even if that risk is only the risk of him reproducing.
My immediate thoughts were identical to yours.
You mean a straw purchase?
I was thinking along the lines of John Hinkley Jr, or whoever.
That never even occurred to me. I hope the justice system where he lives is a lot more aware than I am (I just thought he was spectacularly stupid).