In his column The Wandering Eye, D.A. Smith writes:

Summer is the worst of the four seasons — it’s waaaay too hot, the Statehouse is out of session, and the upcoming gubernatorial campaigns are sitting in the doldrums until Labor Day.

All this means there’s precious little to write about.

That is, of course, until someone does something incredibly stupid and then this column writes itself.

Such was the case last week when S.C. Rep. Wallace Scarborough (R-James Island) was arrested after his 9mm pistol fired shortly after an angry confrontation with two South Carolina Electric and Gas linemen who were checking the utility’s equipment for storm damage in the backyard of Scarborough’s parents’ home in The Crescent neighborhood.

Uh, Wallace … what’s up with that?

Full article via CharlestonCityPaper.com …

From WCNC in Charlotte:

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A state legislator arrested when his pistol fired after confronting two utility workers said he feared for his life, and if he had wanted to shoot the workers, he would have.

“I did not take a shot at them,” said Rep. Wallace Scarborough, 47. “If I wanted to shoot at them, they’d be dead.”

Full article via WCNC.com…

According to Scarborough’s attorney, fellow Republican Representative John Graham Altman:

We passed a bill this year that lets home owners use deadly force to prevent people from invading their home and they are lucky someone didn’t put a shot gun through the window and blow one of them in half.

Full article via WCBD.com…