(May 19, 2014 at 3:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: img
The cartoon intends to lampoon the poor judgment of gun owners, implying that they shoot people on poorly perceived threats.
The average gun owner is arguable better at judging perceived threats than do the cops, who tend to shoot people waving wallets and cell phones.
Several of my friends and family are concealed carry holders, and most of the people I know as neighbors, relatives and friends are gun owners, yet none of them have ever shot at at a mis-perceived threat that I am aware of, and I would probably know such things. So from my statistical sampling of 50 - 60 people, there certainly isn't a trend to warrant lampooning in a cartoon.
There are at least a couple of us that have been hurt in firearm accidents, the two biggest that come to mind are my own and my uncle's, and in both cases, we were hunting and alone.
So, gun owners do hurt themselves with guns more than non-gun owners, but let's face it, how is a non-gun owner going to hurt himself with a gun?..
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