(August 15, 2022 at 8:28 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(August 15, 2022 at 8:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I agree, so what makes you think that laypeople, who don't even have the oversight of weapon's masters, who simply go to a gun store and whine "I have no record, give me one" should simply have one? I agree guns are not toys, but with the amount of firearm violence we have in this country, it seems the irresponsible ones outnumber the responsible ones.
You cant have it both ways. You can't say, "Don't blame responsible gun owners, just keep them out of the wrong hands" then bitch when I agree that we should keep them out of the wrong hands. We've been relying on "no record at time of buy" blindly too much. Our saturated market makes access too easy.
Movie prop guns should never be able to launch any type of projectile even if it is just compact wadding blanks. I think it may have been pointed out somewhere before on this issue that an actor actually accidentally killed himself on a talk show because he stupidly thought the blank couldn't hurt him. The explosion of the blank caused a catastrophic concussion, like being punched in the temple with a wrecking ball.
The distraction you are focused on is a title, IE "actor", when the real issue is human complacency in any situation, be it on the job, or at home. On a movie set, at a gun range, a cop at home, a body guard, an instructor. Having a title that involves use of a firearm, does not make the person using it magically immune from fucking up. So it isn't just actors. There's a video of a cop in front of a classroom who shot himself in the foot.
Guns killed more people between the ages of 1 and 19 beating cancer and drug overdoses. And just on injuries alone, without dying, even gun injuries are now beating out car crashes when it comes to youth.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...-rcna25443
Very few people who buy firearms do so for the purpose of pretending to kill someone with it.
They buy them with the idea that it is a real weapon with a very real purpose with responsibility attatched.
You really love your pretzel logic don't you? No most people do not buy a weapon with attaching responsibility to it. I'd only agree people may go into it with the intent of being responsible, but if you had bothered to read my post, complacency doesn't give a shit about your intent. It only takes one spit second to fuck up, and there is no rewind button on a bullet. Again, if most people were responsible as you falsely want to believe, we would have the epidemic level no other comparative western wealthy nation peer has. None of our allies come close to our stupidity and slavish worship.
