All Hail the Second Amendment

[Minimalist]

Now the idiots want to play "Dress Up."

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/man-dons...ng-center/

Man dons Knights Templar costume to scare away Muslims from New York military recruiting center

This whole fucking country is going insane.

[Minimalist]

http://www.timesreporter.com/article/201.../150729684

Sheriff: Woman accidentally shot by gun in her purse

I remember someone saying that guns can't go off when dropped.  Apparently, they can.

[Spooky]

http://www.timesreporter.com/article/201.../150729684

Sheriff: Woman accidentally shot by gun in her purse

I remember someone saying that guns can't go off when dropped.  Apparently, they can.

Depends on the gun, but yeah, it is possible.

[Minimalist]

Another fucking winner with a gun.


http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/38...apartments

A 48-year-old man was taken to CHI St. Joseph’s Health after he accidentally shot himself in the foot while cleaning a gun on the 1700 block of Seventh Avenue Southwest in Dickinson.

Lt. Dave Wallace said the man neglected to remove the gun’s magazine or empty its chamber before attempting to clean it.

[The Grand Nudger]

In her purse huh?  So, the safety was off, loaded, round chambered.....in a bag with more than one finger shaped object, wedged against other objects, and confined on all sides? What could go wrong? Doesn't sound to me like a gun went off, because it was dropped...... A gun "just going off" is about as likely as a persons car turning it's own key.

(and no charges filed...wtf? There's your gun problem, right there. Right shade of lipstick?)

[Minimalist]

Why not charge the owner with "Assisted Suicide?"

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/indiana-...employees/

Indiana woman rents gun at indoor range before killing herself in front of employees

Lafayette police officer Sgt. Mike Brown confirmed that the woman had watched the 20-minute safety video prior to taking her own life.

That "safety video" needs some work.

[Pyrrho]

It seems to me that a good safety video, in teaching one what to do to be safe, also teaches one what to do if one wants to be unsafe.  So I don't think that her killing herself means that the video needs work.  My guess is, though, that she already knew to point the gun at her head to get the job done, but making sure with a safety video is not a bad idea if one has the time for it.

Also, renting a gun for one-time use seems quite sensible rather than buying, so she really seems to have been thinking quite clearly on this.

[IATIA]

I remember someone saying that guns can't go off when dropped.  Apparently, they can.

Cheap guns (saturday night specials) and cocked guns.

[Minimalist]

I wonder which rule in the "safety manual" tells you to check what is behind your target?

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/missouri...r-on-i-55/

Missouri target shooter suspected of mistakenly hitting 11-year-old girl riding in car on I-55

"Oh, there's a highway over there....WTF could possibly go wrong?"

[popeyespappy]

I wonder which rule in the "safety manual" tells you to check what is behind your target?

That would be basic rule number 1, and safety rules related to your target number 2.

"Oh, there's a highway over there...."

That would be basic rule number 1, and safety rules related to your target numbers 2 and 6.

The three basic general rules of safe gun handling.

1. Always point the muzzle in a safe direction; never point a firearm at anyone or anything you don't want to shoot.
2. Keep your finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot.
3. Keep the action open and the gun unloaded until you are ready to use it.


Safety Rules Related to Your Target.

1. Positively identify your target.
2. What's behind your target? Always make sure that a stray shot, or a bullet which penetrates its intended target through and through, will be safely stopped.
3. Never shoot at a hard surface, or at water -- your shot may glance off, ricochet and injure someone.
4. Never shoot at glass bottles, living trees, or inappropriate targets which would create a hazard for other persons or damage the environment.
5. Never shoot a rifle or handgun directly upwards, or at a high angle of elevation. Even a rimfire .22 bullet fired at an angle into the air can have enough energy a mile and a half away to accidentally kill someone!
6. Never shoot across a highway or other roadway.

When my grandfather, an uneducated hillbilly from the mountains of southeast Tennessee, was teaching me to hunt in the early 70's he wouldn't let me shoot a squirrel off a tree limb with a .22 because there was no backstop and I couldn't tell where the bullet would come down. This despite the fact that we were hunting in one of the least populated areas of a county that at the time had an average population density of about 1 person every 18 acres.