RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
November 13, 2015 at 4:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2015 at 4:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's the nature of an accident though, eh, as opposed to negligence? In an accident, you don't intend for the gun to go off, you don't go through those motions - but, for whatever reason, it does. It's exceedingly rare but very possible. In a negligent discharge, you go through every motion required to fire the weapon, and, surprise surprise, it goes off. You tell me, are the stories in this thread AD's or ND's?
Allowing us to call them AD's, both societally and legally, is shirking the culpability of the gun owner and -creating- the problem that anti-gun laws seek to solve. The only AD's that occur are mechanical failures. If a gun goes off, and the gun does not shown signs of mechanical failure, it was negligence, not an accident. If a person gets shot because of it...even if there was a mechanical failure, it is -still- negligence, and possibly more than that, because space is big and people are small.
We need to hold folks accountable, even when they shoot themselves. If a person is so negligent, that they shoot -themselves-, imo, it's only a matter of time before they shoot someone else. I suspect that we only pussyfoot around with this "accidental discharge" bullshit in order to avoid opening a political can of worms. It's easier to call them idiots and let it ride than it would be to leverage our existing laws to the hilt against them. We're just not serious about our gun laws. We don't enforce them, and we don't propose new laws (to replace the old ones we already ignore) that would solve the problems we pretend to be interested in.
Allowing us to call them AD's, both societally and legally, is shirking the culpability of the gun owner and -creating- the problem that anti-gun laws seek to solve. The only AD's that occur are mechanical failures. If a gun goes off, and the gun does not shown signs of mechanical failure, it was negligence, not an accident. If a person gets shot because of it...even if there was a mechanical failure, it is -still- negligence, and possibly more than that, because space is big and people are small.
We need to hold folks accountable, even when they shoot themselves. If a person is so negligent, that they shoot -themselves-, imo, it's only a matter of time before they shoot someone else. I suspect that we only pussyfoot around with this "accidental discharge" bullshit in order to avoid opening a political can of worms. It's easier to call them idiots and let it ride than it would be to leverage our existing laws to the hilt against them. We're just not serious about our gun laws. We don't enforce them, and we don't propose new laws (to replace the old ones we already ignore) that would solve the problems we pretend to be interested in.
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