Fun With Guns: Lessons Edition
A 42 year old guy in Ohio decides it is time to teach his 14 year old daughter how to shoot. Why he waited so long, I dunno. Hell, she’s practically marrying age.
So they go outside on the back deck of their home at the 9200 block of Dog Leg Road. I am assuming they live in the country. The father proceeds to teach her how to use a 9mm handgun.
The father forgot one lesson. The police reported —
He said the girl fired the gun once without any problem, but the second time her finger was on the trigger it unexpectedly discharged a round.
Jackson said it takes a lot less pressure on the trigger the second time you fire this type of 9mm gun.
And now she knows that while at the hospital having shot both herself and her father in the leg.
The How To Use A Chainsaw lesson has been postponed.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
? “… the second time her finger was on the trigger it unexpectedly discharged a round.” Can these ammosexuals hear themselves? Her finger was ON the trigger, so explain again dear ammosexual how the gun firing was unexpected. Loaded gun discharging can only be “unexpected” in the land of st00pid in which sunrise comes as a daily surprise.
1@PKM: “Jackson said it takes a lot less pressure on the trigger the second time you fire this type of 9mm gun.” I had to find a news article aboot this to understand that Jackson was a police spokesman. He’s right. The article doesn’t define the weapon but Glocks and the odd Sig I’ve shot do require a lot less finger pressure to break the trigger on the second and succeeding rounds than they do on the first round. This dad taught her to swim by pitching her into the deep end of the pool saying “Now SWIM!!!!”
2Ahh, that father daughter bonding thing is so special!
3Micr, your information is correct. However, it doesn’t absolve ammosexual daddy of his teaching moment. That old adage “be prepared” seems to be missing from their safety handbook. Perhaps we should send them all an additional chapter, “written instructions for breathing.” Could eliminate a few of these ‘accidents.’
4And perhaps not.
5Where’s that Moron Insurance when you need it?
6In related news:
7Dog Leg Road will be renamed Father & Daughter Leg Road if approved by the council.
@PKM: I guess I should have added, “and hence the importance of keeping your precious finger off the trigger, princess.”
8so they expect a machine to know not to fire when a finger is placed on the firing mechanism? I got it. Stoopid damn gun. I guess you’re gonna have to take the bullets away from it so it won’t go off when the trigger is pressed. WTH,you can’t expect humans to know better. That’d be a violation of their 2nd amendment rights to be stoopid.
9maryelle, Moron Insurance comes behind those instructions to not use electric appliances in the shower, do not remove the tags from a mattress (wanna bet on how many ammosexuals dutifully maintain those tags) and other attempts to fool proof for the insanely stupid.
Lynne written instructions for breathing might actually work, especially if step one is “breath through the nose.” Add nine more steps and the illiterate mouth breathers might eliminate themselves through confusion and subsequent oxygen deprivation.
10Micr, as Lynne, maryelle and others have noted, there is no “Fool Proof for Dummies” written that can protect an ammosexual and those around them from the st00pid.
If we took them to a range and gave them at least 100 hours of instruction, they’d find some st00pid way to defy our efforts. There’s terminal velocity, then there’s terminal dumb. Terminal dumb is the “ability” be lethal with a whiffle ball.
11Maybe the first lesson should be how to shoot an unloaded gun?
12Maybe the first lesson should be how to shoot an unloaded gun?
13For PKM and others I offer Douglas Adams “A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. I submit a foolproof for dummies would be completely misunderstood.
14Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap and I’m laughing too. Did she shoot her dad and herself with just one bullet? I’d like to know how she did that.
15Corinne Sabo, isn’t dry firing the origin of the ammosexual substitution dilemma?
doquijoterocket, that would be the projection of ammosexuals and why they are so fearful that “Obama is coming to get their guns.” Deep in the recesses of their less than pea sized brains, they know they are unsafe fools with any caliber.
16Lessons that should be left to experts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsg0EvZozI
17Here’s another guy who could use some handgun training.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/95a7844745944ecea54de08de08966fc/cops-man-fired-neighbors-home-unload-gun
18glf. It’s easy to shoot two people with one round (though if she was scared and it was a typical semi-auto pistol, she could’ve squeezed again and shot more than once.) Depending on the body parts in line with the muzzle, and the caliber of weapon and type of ammunition, a bullet can enter and exit one, and still have plenty of oomph for entering the next one. (My grandfather once killed two deer with one round–one was standing exactly beside the other so from his line of sight he saw one deer. Killed both. He never hunted again because a) he had shot something he didn’t intend to shoot and b) number two was a doe.)
Now why she had her finger on the trigger when the pistol wasn’t pointed at the target (one assumes she wasn’t a ballet dancer with one leg pointed up in front of her hand) is another black mark on daddy’s teachin’.
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