Posted on 08/19/2008 9:00:18 AM PDT by WilliamReading
I don’t imagine I could get anyone to bet against alcohol being involved, could I?
Stand back, while I whip this out!
This is why there’s Rule 3 of gunhandling: ALWAYS keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction; never let the muzzle point at anything you are not willing to kill or destroy.
Shouldn’t we require all gun owners to pass a gun safety class?
If we have to pass a driving test to get a drivers license, why not one for owning a handgun or rifle?
To me it is only common sense. Of course others will use the “slippery slope” argument . . . “if they require us to take gun training, then they will take all of our guns away” . .. . That just doesn’t follow.
Why doesn’t the US Army just hand out M-16s to the soldiers and let them figure out for themselves how to shoot them? Why does the Army train and test the soldiers?
Will someone please explain to me how the gun magically fired (while he was, I guess standing away from it, you know it needs its space) and tragically killed his girlfried?
Nope, not unless you added a Glock clause in there somewhere...
Just another New Orleans Area Homicide.
Guns don't just fire.
Safe direction, off the trigger, unloaded.
for chrissake.... isn’t any thing EVER JUST an accident anymore???????
the kid was stupid but even the dead girl said it was an accident.
do they need to make it a crime and send it to jail?
I know this is serious folks, but really- think about the slippery slope- do you want ANYTHING you do (accidentally) to potentially LAND YOU IN JAIL
stub your toe? go to jail... that was silly, I know but... STUB YOUR CHILDS TOE because you don’t know they are standing behind the door... go to jail for child abuse?
I am being extreme, but not EVERYTHING requires criminal prosecution.
Bureaucracy gone amok
Maybe , just maybe, he didn’t know how to use the gun, because no one taught him how?
As more people have been killed by the pen than by the sword, we should require all writers, Internet or not, to take a safety course before being allowed to write or post to the Internet. I mean, ideas are more dangerous than bullets, so we should restrict them equally.
Now, I’ve *actually* had a writing safety class. Have you? If not, I’m sorry, you should not be permitted to post or write anything.
Hint to authorities ... it could have been a finger pulling the trigger.
Now don't go taking my word for it ... try it yourself.
Yeah... that guy was DEA or local cops, “fully trained”, and he STILL managed to shoot himself with it.
Keep the weapons stage 3 and under control.
/johnny
Loaded or unloaded, never, NEVER point a gun at anyone unless you intend to kill them in defense of your own life or someone else’s.
>>the kid was stupid but even the dead girl said it was an accident.>>
LOL
The girl is dead because of his actions. Guns really don’t just go off by themselves. This must have involved huge doses of negligence. And stupidity.
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