Peter Greene, Actor Known for ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Mask,’ Dead of Unintentional Gunshot Wound

There are famous movie stars we all know and recognize, even if we don’t really want to, and then there are more workman-like actors who do their roles, work a lot, might be recognizable, but don’t make the headlines.

Actor Peter Greene was one of the latter. He was typically cast as the bad guy, and could show just the right level of slime to make it believable, without going over the top with it.

Except, I suppose, when it was warranted, such as his role in The Mask.

I mean, you put on the mask and “over the top” is just about right.

Unfortunately, no matter how much I enjoyed his work, it seems that despite all the guns he handled in his film roles, one gun he appears to have mishandled was his own.

Actor Peter Greene, who specialized in playing villains like the sadistic security guard Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” died after he accidentally shot himself in the armpit, the New York City medical examiner said Wednesday.

The determination was released two months after Greene, 60, was found dead Dec. 12 in his apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

“Cause of death: Gunshot wound of left axilla with injury of brachial artery,” it said. The death was determined to be an accident.

Now, the question is what kind of gun are we talking about here?

If it was a P320, it might be a gun accident versus negligent gun handling. As of right now, that information hasn’t been released, and no one in the New York media likely knows to ask that question. Right now, though, it’s not super relevant because there was still a certain amount of unfortunate mishandling involved here.

Never point a gun at anything you don’t intend to destroy.

How many times have you heard it? Hell, how many times have you said it?

Regardless of why the round went off, be it a manufacturer or design defect, or a booger hook on the bang switch, what really matters right now is that it went off, went into his armpit, and into the brachial artery, which is kind of a major artery. Plus, you can’t tourniquet an armpit shot, so there’s not a whole lot that can be done without extensive training that most people don’t have, and even fewer are legally allowed to do.

This is unfortunate, to say the least, but it’s a reminder that no one is immune to the laws of physics. A small projectile moving at a high rate of speed will go through less dense materials, such as skin, bone, and muscle, until sufficient friction slows its rate of speed sufficiently, and they’re not super great at stopping that high rate of speed quickly.

I loved Greene in Pulp Fiction, and all I could think as I read this story was:

“It’s a chopper, baby.“
“Whose chopper is this?“
“It’s Zed’s.“
“Who’s Zed?“
“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.“ 

Zed’s dead, and it’s evidence that we really need to push the rules of firearm safety well beyond our own community, because stuff like this should never happen, and it won’t unless you break the rules. Hell, it usually takes breaking more than one for something like this to happen, so let’s get them out there.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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