RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
February 7, 2015 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2015 at 1:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 6, 2015 at 5:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Until the gun goes off, how do you know the difference? If, when a gun owner dies, he has not contributed in any way to the accidental discharge of a gun, I am prepared to honor him with the posthumous title Law-Abiding Responsible Gun Owner. Until that last breath, he's an accident waiting to happen. Humans are too careless and/or clumsy.-and machines have tolerance limits. Not having contributed to a single AD would be a poorer LARGO metric than having contributed to hundreds without a single injury. A Law Abiding Responsible Gun Owner doesn't hurt anyone even if there -is- an AD, because they operate their firearms as though there definitely will-be. The trouble, here, is that traditional gun culture has been replaced by an amateur gun toting arm of political ideology. All of the experiences that used to be tied to guns are being divorced from them so we end up with people who can;t operate the equipment because the first firearm they ever bought was a 357 or an AR-15 because some wingnut on the radio told them they were awesome (and also that they were sticking it to Obama/The Man by buying one). I've told you before, I have nothing in common with these people, I don't trust them with a Daisy any more than you do with their Peen Cannons. They are not responsible, they don't even approach responsible. SA responsible owner -will- contribute to an ad...as you said, people are careless/clumsy....but the first rule, the most important rule of gun ownership is -be mindful of the business end-. If theyre so careless, so clumsy, that they don;t think about where there gun is pointed...then they cant be trusted to operate a butterknife (regardless of how crucial to our economy a butterknife may be..and we don't exactly allow people to operate equipment just because it's crucial, no matter what that equipment is) - and certainly don't belong in the group I identify with.
The case in Jersey was awesome. Needs to happen everytime. It's on the books, there isn't a state in the us that you can't prosecute on those grounds. Bet they have laws regarding the storage of firearms in New Jersey as well (particularly in the presence of minors). In fact, I'm willing to bet that so many laws were broken that if there wasn't -as noted- an insane reluctance to enforce our laws...that the defendant would be facing felony charges...kind puts them out of the running the the LA portion of LARGO right off the bat, eh? I'd worry about felons with guns myself. I guess we'll just have to wait until some 5 year old black kid accidentally shoots a cop with an unsecured weapon to see the fullest extent of the law, eh?
(I know, it sounds shitty, to any observers...but that;s been a pretty good litmus test, historically, as far as what the laws actually are and what they allow...what gets leveraged against the disenfranchised when law enforcement itself is the claimant with a greivance)
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