Good point. Thinking about a parallel discussion going on, in which it is asserted that knives are equally dangerous, your reply is informative. THEATER A: Hatchet and airsoft gun = one superficial injury. THEATER B: Handgun =two dead, nine injured.
How long has it been? Decades? A century?
Give it time, people.
I see, they just haven’t been Scotsman long enough.
Comforting /= excellent.
Do you see any inconsistency between those two posts? You invoke the existence of a constant human nature through human history, but tell us that it will change in favor of your view sometime in the indeterminate future.
The rest of us are, sadly, forced to live in the real world.
I couldn’t help but imagine a bunch of our gunintelligent posters running to look up gun ownership statistics for Scotland upon reading your post.
Every society with strong effective gun control laws has developed into a free, low-crime, happy, healthy, prosperous, democratic, green, sustainable society… or will at some point.
Meanwhile, there is nothing at all oppressive or caste-y about the good old U.S.ofA.
True. The more people have guns, the more people find reasons to use them on each other. That’s why towns in the Old West banned guns in town, and we seem to have survived that with a minimum of tyranny.
Au contraire, look at how poor besieged patriotic Clive Bundy has been treated. And don’t forget Jade Helm!
What about people being forced to gay marry? Don’t you consider that tyranny? What about not being greeted properly in department stores during the Christmas season? What about not being allowed to have a white president for 8 years? Tyranny, I say!
It isn’t your imagination, it really is getting worse.
But … freedom!
Should I assume that you don’t agree with the NRA on that?
Meanwhile, in rednekkid Idaho (state motto: “We’re not quite as bad as Texas but we’re trying”) stupid people are still doing stupid things with guns.
Cliff’s notes version; Idaho woman mails fully-loaded Ruger 357 to Connecticut. Gun discharges while being handled by postal worker*. No serious injuries. Woman says she’s sorry, didn’t know it was loaded, gets probation and community service. Left unsaid is whether she knew it was illegal to send a Ruger 357 through the mail in the first place. Probably not. Stupid.
*“Handled by a postal worker” may of course include being stomped on, flung against a wall or beaten with a hammer all of which the USPS apparently does with my parcels. But still.
Damn, that’s some heavy duty stupid right there. Someone could easily have been killed or seriously injured. I have to wonder if there weren’t other laws violated. Does Connecticut require background checks (for the recipient)? For that matter does Idaho? I’m not even sure which state’s laws would apply.
Answer the questions, chickenshit.
Answer the questions, chickenshit.
Answer the questions, chickenshit.
Clearly, integrity is an alien concept to you.
From the link.
Modern firearms have firing pin blocks that prevent discharge when the trigger is not pulled.
The Blackhawk is a single action. You have to cock the hammer first before pulling the trigger.
You can’t get sore hands from a gun firing inside a package. You can if you take it from the package and start playing with it.
The woman who mailed it should lose her right to own firearms.
I was wondering about that. So the gun had to have been cocked in the package? Wow!
The sore hands thing could have gone like this:
Doctor: Anything else bothering you?
Postal Employee: Well… my hands are a little sore.
Note this from the same article:
So it doesn’t sound like it had been removed before firing.
In order to search a package, you have to open the package. I have no doubt someone touched the trigger.
Maybe someone was trying to uncock it.
It’s not going to go off just sitting in a package like that.
“Officers searched the package”.
That sounds like it’s after the fact. It went off while the postal employee was handling it, so the police were called and they searched the package. That’s sure what it sounds like to me. The gun must have been cocked when it was packed.