Fun With Guns: You Show Me Yours Edition
I dunno if they are still friends. Arizona.
The big take-away is that they have “no idea” how this happened since ammo is not allowed on the premises. Apparently it is.
Officials say the victim was shot once, resulting in a non-life threatening injury, and is expected to be okay. But the big question tonight is how this could happen considering the gun show has strict “no loaded gun rules” on show grounds?
Then the Fox-whine.
Even though this was considered an accident, it still gives gun-control-enthusiasts ammo to say, fewer guns, fewer accidents, but officers say if you do exercise your right to bear arms, just make sure you take all precautions.
Thank you, Fox News, for straight reporting.
Negligent Discharges N+1
12A-mmosexuals 0
Accident.
Inspection.
Isn’t there another rule of gun handling, something like, never point a gun at another person even if you think it’s not loaded?
Bonus famous last words:
2“Why are you dodging like this? They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance…”
Union General John Sedgwick at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
@Rick. Correction “At this distance they couldn’t hit an Eleph…….”, thump.
3I’m just waiting for a firecracker to go off at one of those ammosexual meetings. Might help to clean up the gene pool.
4What an awful lot of gun owners are embarrassed to tell you category: when growing up in two countries, the gun owners – always hunters – rarely if ever let on they had some kind of firearm in the house. They figured it was nobody’s business. Consequently there was no open carry. Us kids were always told not to reveal such a thing. I have come to know why. Way too many people confuse the things with manhood, some kind of rights, etc. and are totally against even thinking of it as dangerous. “It” is “them”. Well, in that case, frankly it should be buried with them.
5@Cole –
I believe that might be more historically accurate!
Too bad for Gen Sedgwick his scouts hadn’t returned from the front with crucial information, Confederate snipers weren’t hunting elephants.
6The “no loaded guns on premises” relies on the honor code, hence the problem. No honor among nutjobs.
7And people aren’t allowed to drive drunk, the electricity is off, it’s not that hot, and the killer in horror movies is always dead after being hit over the head. Except it never seems to happen that way.
@paul, I was thinking the same thing. Just yell “he’s got a gun” an gesture vaguely in all directions. Hopefully all the dominos would fall.
8“Even though this was considered an accident, it still gives gun-control-enthusiasts ammo to say . . . .”
Uh, no. It doesn’t give us any sort of ‘ammo.’ We’re not looking for ammo. We don’t want no stinking ammo. The whole point is to have LESS of that stuff lying around.
And the gun nuts do have it right in one respect: guns don’t kill people – ammo kills people. And they will just keep trying to protect their God-given or Constitution-given or some kind of given right to shoot people. I don’t get it – – but then my virility isn’t linked to hot lead so I guess that explains it.
9“Now you see if they had allowed loaded guns on the premises this accident would never have happened.” W. LaPierre
10So why can’t we have “no loaded gun rules” everywhere?
11So a convention of uneducated, redneck, gun-humpers can say they are an ammo free zone, but throw a screaming tantrum if a state college tries to do the same?
12two crows and others: I’m gonna keep harping on this until everyone gets it. The Constitution DOES NOT give anyone the right to USE guns. Only the right to KEEP and BEAR. Gun USE can and should be regulated in the interest of PUBLIC SAFETY. The words GUN OWNER and GUN USER are not interchangeable.
13two crows, JAKvirginia, count me with you on gun sense. Heck, if the NV casinos could do away with having their routine security staff carry guns because of the liability issues, stores and other public venues have a right to be safe zones, too.
Gunsel is a good word to describe ammosexuals. I mean the old English version, not the new urban dictionary. Although the urban dictionary definition is good, too. Another of my favorites that many speed read past: meretricious. My least favorite NV Senator has yet to grasp that one in my communications with his office.
14Guns don’t kill people. No, a gun lying there on the counter doesn’t harm anyone. It’s only when some idiot picks it up that it becomes a possibly lethal weapon. So we just need to pass laws making it illegal to pick the damn things up or touch them. Then you can own all of them you want.
15Rhea, given the number of ‘accidents’ involving toddlers, I’d take your plan one step further. Any gun owner should be personally responsible for the carnage delivered by their recklessly unattended weapons.
Jane and I have always stored ours safely. But with our inquiring Little Kool in the house, we now pull the firing pins and otherwise disable our guns before storing them in the safe. Our Boyo just started saying Dada, can’t count to three yet, but we’re taking no chances that he can open the safe. We’ve done our best to not arouse his curiosity or let him see the guns & safe, but we don’t underestimate his abilities.
16One precaution might be to start healing a culture that worships guns far above humanity.
It took MADD to teach that drunk driving is not really humorous or cute. And it took a long time.
Maybe it’s time to start teaching that guns are also not humorous or cute or actual penis extenders.
17@LynnN
18What MADD did, IMHO, was to fund video cameras in police cars so juries could SEE what the arresting officer saw. I recall vividly a driver who upon exiting the motor car face planted on the roadway. There were other drunk signs as well but the face plant was memorable. He blew .11 at a time when the presumed drunk level in was .10. The DA elected not to prosecute. A video of that contact, complete with face plant might have influenced an ADA and later a jury. Or it might have encouraged a plea which included an ignition interlock device.