The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[trish]

Since April 5:

Sixteen year old Ohio boy suffers from a chest wound after attempting to clean his gun. That his story and he’s sticking to it.

Tennessee four year old son of Wilson County sheiff’s deputy finds a gun at a family picnic, then shoots and kills his mother.

While cleaning his gun Texas policeman shoots and kills his four year old daughter.

West Virginia woman shots her finger off.

Seventeen year old North Carolina boy shoots himself in the leg.

In Tennessee a two year finds his mother’s gun and shoots her in the stomach. She’s in serious but stable condition.

New Jersey four year old shoots a six year old dead...in the head.

Maryland man drops gun. It discharges and wounds him.

Tennesee man attempts to clean his gun and accidentally kills himself.

http://accidentalgunshots.tumblr.com/

We're asked to trust these people. Gun owners are safety conscious. Allowing people to walk around carrying concealed weapons is supposed to make us all safer, reduce our risk of harm. Guns don't kill people...unless you drop them, clean them or leave them on the stove.

[trish]

It continues:

Private security guard accidentally shoots a student in Kansas. So much the good-guys-with-a-gun theory.

Indiana man shoots himself twice while “decocking” his 9mm. He forgot it had one in the chamber. Girl friend said he just bought the gun and was “messing around with it.”

Tennessee man shoots himself while cleaning his .22 rifle on his from porch. Of course the gun in his household was no risk to the neighbors, right?

Two guys were admiring a gun in Florida. It discharged. One guy’s left, the other one’s dead.

In South Caroline a three year old child finds a gun and kills himself.

In Geogia a man accidentally discharged his Smith & Wesson (he was just “checking” it) and sent a bullet through his hand and leg. He’s no danger to those who live around him though.

Twenty three year old kid shoots a friend while “messing” with a revolver. It’s okay though, only the people in his proximity in Dover, Delaware were ever in danger.

Oh wait, Dover’s a bit more dangerous than that: Mr. Peace of Dover accidentally shot a friend (the bullet entering his calf and breaking his tibia) while “messing” around with his Smith and Wesson .357.



http://accidentalgunshots.tumblr.com/

[hippifried]

You're having way too much fun reporting on the stupid, Trish.

[trish]

It's educational. The lesson is obviously that more guns don't make us safer. It also has an entertaining three-stooges character to it. It would be amusing if it weren't horribly marred by the involvement of so many children and innocent by-standers. That (imo) underscores the seriousness of the issue.

[broncofan]

If someone could tell a story about a gun owner playing hero and blasting his way out of a sticky situation it would resonate (counter-intuitively as a gun control argument) just because of how rare it is.

Like someone pulls into a gas station and attempts to rob it at gunpoint, unfortunately for them a hungangels member is there, pulls out a .45, aims it around a mother and her two children in the candy aisle and blows the robber's brains out, splattering blood and skull fragments all over the bewildered cashier. Then we can discuss how that act can help us create the society we really want to live in. A few stories like this for every 50 children and adults blowing their brains out by accident would convince me...of the stupidity of gun lobbyists.

[buttslinger]

It's not like the Senate is going to call you up and ask your opinion, If you want shit done you have to do it before the election and get these guys out of office who have arteries like 80 year old copper pipe. I would wager every person in Congress knows these laws are bullshit, but the politicians are businessmen first, protectors of children second.

[zulusierra]

It continues:

Private security guard accidentally shoots a student in Kansas. So much the good-guys-with-a-gun theory...“messing” around with his Smith and Wesson .357. http://accidentalgunshots.tumblr.com/

Having a gun does not make one "armed" any more than owning a piano makes one a pianist.

I am as pro-2nd as one gets and even I shudder at how many folks lack respect and fear for tools whose functions are break things and kill people.

Natural selection in all its functional glory is allowed to work its magic in this segment of the population.

I learned weapons handling in the USMC. Even cops scare me with their lack of discipline. When people ask me what kind of gun they should buy I generally steer them towards CS spray if I don't think they are going to commit to training with their weapon until it is muscle memory.

More ppl have been killed or maimed by "unloaded" guns than any other tool out there, lel.

[trish]

Natural selection in all its functional glory is allowed to work its magic in this segment of the population.

In this case it was selection against an innocent by-stander;not the pro handling the gun.

More pl have been killed ... by guns...

Exactly, guns DO kill people.

[robertlouis]

In this case it was selection against an innocent by-stander;not the pro handling the gun.

And all too often it's an innocent party - a young child or a relation - who suffers or dies. That isn't natural selection. It's as unnatural, violent and cruel as it gets.

[hippifried]

It's educational. The lesson is obviously that more guns don't make us safer. It also has an entertaining three-stooges character to it. It would be amusing if it weren't horribly marred by the involvement of so many children and innocent by-standers. That (imo) underscores the seriousness of the issue.

Well yeah... But if stupid people keep shooting themselves, doesn't that tend to slow, albeit minimally, the deterioration of the overall gene pool? Although I will admit that it'd be better if they stopped shooting themselves in the leg & aimed just a little higher.