This is a stupid tangent but it reminds me of the This American Life experiment where they tested testosterone levels of various people involved in the program (men and women) to see how they matched up against public perception. And the guy with the highest testosterone levels, by a large margin, was this guy. Yep, the guy bursting with testosterone was the extremely left-wing, gay, Jewish, wimpy writer. Admittedly the base of comparison was other people from NPR but even for that group he was not the one you would have picked.
So can you all just shut the hell up about it now?
“Rambo mode” aside, guns you aren’t expecting to use should indeed be stored unloaded and locked. As for a shit-hits-the-fan firearm, it should be kept ready to use but in a quick-access locked safe or rack. Leaving firearms unsecured, especially in a house with children, is imbecilic.
In the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers, when the Cardinal’s men come in the night to arrest M. Bonacieux, he grabs a pistol off his nightstand and futily begins trying to load powder, patch and ball. I wish I could find a clip of that online.
“A Colorado Springs teenage girl, age 14, was shot and killed on Monday morning after her stepfather mistook her for a burglar at her own home, stated Colorado police located in Colorado Springs.”
Surely teenagers should know they should come home by the time their parents tell them–rather than sneak in later.
:smack: I have to concede, I can’t imagine what kind of total f***ing imbeciles do this, any more than I can understand how deer hunters end up shooting cows and each other.
They’re scared people. It’s not hard to understand. They have been repeatedly told that they are exceptionally vulnerable, and they exercise judgment accordingly.
That attitude is the thing I wish more pro-gun-rights types agreed with me on. The likelihood of me even having a valid opportunity to use any of my guns for anything other than recreation is absolutely minuscule.
If more gun owners actually understood the statistics of violent crime on a gut level, I imagine you’d see many fewer of those kinds of incidents.
If by ‘home alarm system’ you mean ‘solid locks on doors & windows, well-lit exterior, and basic common sense, etc etc’, then yes, I am under that impression. Unlike you, I do not live in a delusional, paranoid corner of the universe where I fantasize about going into Rambo mode every second of the day.
Or it could just be you live in a shit hole. Sucks to be you.
Here’s an article on the stepdad who killed his stepdaughter:
“Meade, a 10-year Army veteran, was an enlisted soldier who ascended to the rank of sergeant first-class before accepting his commission within the past year, Fort Carson spokeswoman Dani Johnson said. He is the recipient of a Bronze Star, an Army Commendation medal, and other laurels… Meade also has a Ranger tab and a Special Forces tab, showing that he completed some of the Army’s toughest and most exclusive combat training.”
With his training he surely doesn’t have the excuse that he panicked.
Well, you know its their fault that they live in shitholes. Hell, there’s a $3 million house down the street for sale with a great security system, why don’t they just buy THAT place. If they worked hard enough and made the right choices in life, it would be within reach, I’m sure.
Oh that’s rich, that is. Now I suppose we’ll be hearing that the NRA is the great champion of the poor. “See, we’re fighting to keep the Obama from taking poor people’s guns. So they can fight off all those rich folks trying to exploit 'em”. Or something.
Maybe ya oughta run that one by Wayne LaPierre’s speechwriters. I’m sure they’d be duly greatful…