While they were driving up Flanders River Road, Coccia told his friends he had not been to the shooting range in a while, Coccia told police. One of his companions told him that they were driving in as good a place as any to shoot, police said. So Coccia rolled down his window and fired five rounds from a .45-caliber handgun in what he called "a safe direction"
I know it's just a dream to think that armed Americans are a higher breed of human and immune to stupidity, but given the media grey-out when it comes to armed citizens doing good things, it's tough to sell our point of view with Mr. Coccia and friends muddying the waters.
