Wow. I thought this would be a case of someone coming home early from college or something, but according to the article, the person they shot lives there with them.
And 27 shots? If I were the DA, I would want to know a lot more about how well they were getting along.
I was going to snark and say that the shooter was a police officer.
Then I clicked the link…
A responsible gun owner shoots a 6 year old girl in the spine after her father makes a wrong turn. He stops in a parking lot to reset the GPS and the responsible gun owner gets upset because their headlights are shining into his car so he gets out and starts shooting. As every responsible gun owner should.
This was in Texas. I suspect the responsible gun owner will end up getting a medal pinned to his chest by Greg Abbott and Wayne LaPierre. Nice work gentlemen.
Yes, the linked article sarcastically used the word “responsible”; but nothing it said indicates that this was a licensed carrier who suddenly went postal. My guess is that it will turn out to be a person with a history of violence who might not have had a carry permit or even could own a gun legally. As for the idea that open carry allowed him to ambush the victims without warning, I would ask was he in fact open carrying, and at what point would advance warning have done any good?
The way they throw around ‘accidental’ in shootings like that is just crazy.
Same thing in the Florida case I mentioned yesterday:
Excuse me, but AFAWK the mother fully intended to shoot someone. “Oops, I thought I was perforating someone else” is not an accident. A tragedy, in this case, but not an accident.
Maybe the North Las Vegas police were being sarcastic when they said “accidental”.
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Yes, of course, you see your side as being reasonable and anything unreasonable they do is the result of the unreasonable positions of the other side.
The fact of the matter is that your side is largely ignorant of the issues and generally know little to nothing about guns or gun laws and when we don’t agree with you in your ignorance you throw a hissy fit.
Its just a guess but I’m going to guess that about 90% of the stuff you know to be true about gun and gun control is not actually true.
I stand corrected. I guess I just don’t see a lot of lever actions around here and the only ones I see in the store are pretty expensive (they tend to have wood stocks with a lot of detail and etchings in the metal). Same with over/under break action shotguns. They might very well be cheap and plentiful elsewhere but they are uncommon and expensive where I live (once again they tend to be pretty fancy guns).
You kind of have to reference the correct thread - it’s here.
Ooops, you’re right. I just googled it and didn’t bother to see where it came from.
Sad story, girl shot during an eviction.
What baffles me is that a man with a family would rather keep his rifle rather than sell it to pay the rent. Odd values.
You sell it, it’s gone, then what next month?
The second most valuable thing you own. Priorities.
In the past I’ve been General Assistance poor and actually got evicted once for non-payment of rent. Trust me, selling off your possessions to buy a month or two is like cutting off your arm and eating it to stave off starvation. It’s usually ineffective in the end and not worth the loss.
Just for completeness, I think this thread should also include the Paul Revere Patriots story, about the two guys in the pickup truck, where the drunk-ass guy pulled the driver’s guy out of his holster to threaten him with it, but the driver grabbed his spare gun and shot his pal in the head. Dead. That is some pretty USDA-prime stoopid.
On another forum, someone posted the message from the group’s FB page. I cannot source it, sorry, but it is a classic.
Assailants with baseball bats back off when intended victim shows gun:
That would not be stupid gun news if true and would not be a good addition to the thread.
That said, the video stinks to high heaven and I don’t believe it for a second. Totally staged. Here, let me give you another video of a good guy with a gun stopping bad guys with bats: :rolleyes:
This one does not have the dog whistle politics, but has a similar story.Since I neither speak nor read French, I could not evaluate the veracity of the video. If it’s been debunked as bogus I’d like to know.
Lumpy! You’re back from Oregon! Find some snacks yet?