We live in a world where a woman thinks you must have a gun on you to "shop at Walmart." https://t.co/zik1PcZ6f9 pic.twitter.com/Gs8q4uaaLF
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 13, 2016
From that Jacksonville Ledger article:
…[Jamie] Gilt, a 31-year-old Jacksonville resident, spoke to In-Gauge, a Winter Haven non-profit National Rifle Association training organization, Tuesday night about what happened to her on March 8 that made national news and sparked a conversation about gun safety…
Gilt said she left her Jacksonville home that day the same way she always does.
She grabbed her loaded .45-caliber handgun and brought her 4-year-old son, Lane, along with her to go look at a horse at her cousin’s home for her 10-year-old stepson.
She said she usually wore her gun in a holster on her hip, but that day she decided to put it under her driver’s seat…
While driving down the road, Gilt’s son had unbuckled himself to get a toy on the floorboard, Gilt said that is how he got his hands on the handgun.
Soon after, she heard a loud bang and saw something hit her windshield. It wasn’t until she looked down and saw herself covered in blood that she realized she had been shot.
Her son had picked up the handgun and shot through her seat, hitting her in the back…
Her name and what happened were all over the news, and she was condemned for being a, “bad mother,” she said.
“People post things and they absolutely destroy anyone they think is in the wrong,” she said. “And that’s what they did to me.”
But Gilt isn’t focused on that. She is focused on showing others how important it is to be safe with a gun…
Now, Gilt is on the road to becoming a NRA firearm instructor and will be certified at the end of this month. She plans to teach classes and show people that the unexpected can always happen…
Originally the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office considered charging Gilt with a second-degree misdemeanor, allowing a minor access to a firearm, but the State Attorney’s Office in Sanford offered her a deal.
She had to complete a gun safety course, install a mounted holster in her vehicle, provide proof of safe storage of her firearms in her home and give 10 speeches on the incident and what she learned from it.
Gilt said Tuesday night she had already completed her 10 required speeches and that she was speaking at In-Gauge because she wanted to…
When I was growing up, a lot of the little old Irish and Italian ladies in the neighborhood never went further than their mailboxes without their rosary beads, which provided them with a powerful feeling of spiritual protection and a focus for meditation during idle moments. But when those beads accidentally fell out of their purses in the grocery checkout lane, or got left behind on the bus, I don’t remember that the emergency services ever had to be called out.
@Rschooley Have you shopped at Walmart lately?
— KC Compton (@KCCompton) July 13, 2016
I carry bear spray. https://t.co/uB93vyVQb9
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 13, 2016
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