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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 20, 2015 at 10:03 pm
I suspect that they were really playing with it and didn't think that would sound good when telling the cops.
Your dick can go off too when playing with it....with far less dire consequences.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 23, 2015 at 3:50 pm
Don't people at least have the common sense to make sure the gun isn't loaded prior to cleaning it? Like how stupid can some be?
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 23, 2015 at 3:53 pm
(December 23, 2015 at 3:50 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: Don't people at least have the common sense to make sure the gun isn't loaded prior to cleaning it? Like how stupid can some be?
Gun ownership is the best example of the Dunning-Kruger effect in existence. You basically have 99% of people who say "sure, the
average gun owner might be at risk of accidental injury to themselves or their children, but
I'm careful/responsible."
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 24, 2015 at 2:54 am
(December 23, 2015 at 12:06 pm)Minimalis Wrote: Police say a South Florida man was demonstrating the proper way to clean a gun during a video call with a relative when he accidentally shot himself in the chest and died.
Not the proper way to do it.
You do realize that "he was just showin' us how to clean it" is an excuse often used to mask other, often even more stupid, actions that preceded the shooting. people shoot themselves playing with it like a dog toy, not cleaning it like an adult who must empty and dis-assemble it first.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 24, 2015 at 12:57 pm
If all the morons who shot themselves "cleaning" their guns were actually "cleaning" them the glare of shiny metal would be blinding.
Most of the dorks are probably practicing their "quick draw" in front of a mirror cause, you know.....gun nuts.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
December 25, 2015 at 12:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2015 at 12:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The average gun owner is safe, his gun poses no statistical risk to him (or you). If guns went off while being cleaned (loaded or otherwise) as often as the claim is bandied around more gun owners would be shot/dead. Most are neither shot, nor dead (which is why statistical risk is negligible).
These stories are the margin riders. It's a list of grade A assholes /w guns. There are far too many of them - but in a country of 300mil plus, there are going to be alot of them. The crushing majority of us (as in all of us in the US) will never be shot, by our own gun or otherwise, we will never even meet these margin riding sons of bitches.
Identifying these idiots before the fact would be ideal, but it's beyond our ability to do so at present, and we generally wait until someones done something, before we lay the weight of our legal system on their backs.
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