It’s already been six days and six weeks since someone fired six bullets from a six-shooter owned by a football player whose jersey does not contain the number six anywhere on it.

And the matter still is under investigation.

Sal Paolantonio of ESPN reports that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office has asked the police department to gather more evidence regarding an incident involving Marvin Harrison’s gun.

One of the problems is that the two victims — a man who was shot in the hand and a child injured by flying glass — have been “less than fully cooperative.”

The D.A. apparently won’t proceed until the D.A. knows that a conviction can be obtained.  “We don’t approve charges unless we can prove them in court,” said an official with the district attorney’s office.

Still, Harrison owned the gun, the gun was used in the shooting, and the gun ended up back in Harrison’s possession the next day.  Absent a damn good explanation from Harrison as to who other than Harrison had the gun in his or her hand at the time of the shooting, we think there’s enough evidence to proceed.

We realize that prosecutors don’t want to put their won-loss records at risk by plucking anything other than the fruit that’s skimming the blades of grass, but sometimes the lack of a smoking gun (um, wait, never mind) needs to take a back seat to the application of common sense to circumstantial evidence, even if it means that Perry Mason might not be able to boast to his potential female conquests that he’s never lost a case in court.