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To: marktwain

Bull$hit. He didn’t lose his temper at all. That is exactly the correct response to some dumbass mis-handling a firearm.


60 posted on 04/02/2011 7:04:45 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: spodefly

Exactly!

He not only educated the moron holding the gun, but he also educated everyone who was there to see it!

I doubt that any of them forget that lesson!


62 posted on 04/02/2011 7:07:00 AM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers - Good to the last drop!)
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To: spodefly
Folks must remember that Hollywood actors (and extras) are nearly 100% illiterates when it comes to safe handling and use of firearms. Prop or non-firing dummy guns are used in the majority of cases when filming. Real guns that fire blanks are under the eagle eye of the prop master when the set is “hot” and those guns are loaded. After the scene is over, the prop master collects the guns. The prop master also has to train the actors in safe handling.

Occasionally it goes wrong. On the set of the TV show “Cover Up”, actor Jon Eric Hexum was clowning on the set with a .44 Magnum revolver. Hexum thought the pistol was either unloaded or all the blanks had been fired, He put the pistol his temple and squeezed the trigger. The pistol fired and drove part of the blank cartridge wadding through his skull and into his brain. Hexum was rushed to the hospital on October 12, 1984, but there was no hope. Life support was removed and he died on October 18 at age 26.

67 posted on 04/02/2011 7:26:10 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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