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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 7, 2015 at 12:58 pm
I fully understand and appreciate your point in this thread, but breaking the rules is not a satisfactory reason to ban guns. Under the same scenario, automobiles should be banned because people are too stupid not to text while driving, fall asleep at the wheel, drive while drunk, stop at red lights and stop signs, stc..
The real shame of it all is that they perpetrators are usually the ones that survive.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 7, 2015 at 2:21 pm
Aside from the fact that cars provide a far more needed function to society than guns and that, alone among industrialized nations the carnage from gun play in the US is unconscionable I tend to agree with you. Drivers must pass a test, have their eye-sight checked, carry insurance for misdeeds, be subject to revocation of that license for infractions even if they don't kill someone. We register cars. The gun nuts fight gun registration like it is some unheard of expansion of government power.
The point of this thread is that trained or not, law-abiding or not, careful or not, has little to do with it. Shit happens. Shit happens because people are careless and easily distracted. And when shit happens with a gun in your hand bad things can, and frequently do, happen.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 8, 2015 at 11:35 am
Some good news for a change. Supreme Court invites the NRA to go fuck itself.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/supreme-...egulation/
Quote:Supreme Court rejects NRA’s challenge to San Francisco gun regulation
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 9, 2015 at 9:01 pm
Another asshole with a gun.
http://magicvalley.com/news/local/man-ac...e1903.html
Quote:Martin told paramedics he failed to unload the weapon before taking it apart and dropped it onto the floor while cleaning it, causing it to discharge.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 9, 2015 at 9:11 pm
It is very disturbing, how stupid so many people are who have guns. When I was a child, and first learned a bit about guns, I would not have made the mistake this idiot made.
On the plus side, the moron shot himself, instead of someone else, so we should all be happy about that.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 10, 2015 at 12:42 am
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Gun rules are simple:
- ALL guns are loaded
- ALL safeties are broken or non-existent
- ALL triggers are faulty
- If you do not believe or care to follow 1, 2 or 3, give the fucking thing back.
I do not understand how that is so difficult, even for kids, as long as they are given the rules.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 10, 2015 at 1:30 am
Do we REALLY need to put 'careful, potentially lethal weapon' on firearms?
I mean dude, it's a fucking gun. Try not to....I don't know....drop it -_-
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 10, 2015 at 1:33 am
(June 9, 2015 at 9:11 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is very disturbing, how stupid so many people are who have guns. When I was a child, and first learned a bit about guns, I would not have made the mistake this idiot made.
On the plus side, the moron shot himself, instead of someone else, so we should all be happy about that.
Pure accident. The bullet could have gone anywhere. In fact, the only cases we ever hear about are the ones where someone gets hit. How many more times does it happen?
Quote:I do not understand how that is so difficult, even for kids, as long as they are given the rules.
You are forgetting that a lot of people are fucking stupid.
Quote:Do we REALLY need to put 'careful, potentially lethal weapon' on firearms?
And could they read it if you did?
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 10, 2015 at 12:22 pm
(June 10, 2015 at 1:33 am)Minimalist Wrote: (June 9, 2015 at 9:11 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is very disturbing, how stupid so many people are who have guns. When I was a child, and first learned a bit about guns, I would not have made the mistake this idiot made.
On the plus side, the moron shot himself, instead of someone else, so we should all be happy about that.
Pure accident. The bullet could have gone anywhere. In fact, the only cases we ever hear about are the ones where someone gets hit. How many more times does it happen?
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Yes, it is a pure accident. I am just saying that, in this instance, it is a happy accident. It is better when idiots with guns shoot themselves rather than others. Of course, it is only happy accidents, not intentional. But it is still a better outcome.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
June 10, 2015 at 8:31 pm
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/292806...igh-school
Quote:A shooting so tragic it has the Shelby County Sheriff's deputies shaken. A four-year-old boy is dead after he got a hold of his dad's gun and accidentally shot himself.
Another fine, upstanding L-ARGO who made that one little mistake.
Quote:“The father, he usually keeps the gun locked up, but I think in this instance it was left out, but I think it was in a place where a child couldn't necessarily get it,” SCSO public information officer Chip Washington said.
Apparently not, Chip.
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