Tennessee man shot by his dog while lying in bed

A bullet grazed the Memphis man's thigh after his one-year-old pit bull got his paw stuck in a gun's trigger guard

Dog bites man is hardly news, but in Tennessee, a dog recently shot a man.

In what is only the latest instance of a kind of accidental shooting that intermittently occurs in the US, Jerald Kirkwood reported to police in Memphis that he and a woman were lying in bed with a firearm when his dog jumped up and inadvertently caused the weapon to discharge.