No gun owner is going to deny that incidents like this are tragedies. But to jump from that to “gun ownership should be heavily restricted” is where gun owners say “whoa, wait a second…”. Hideous accidents happen in kitchens with hot oil, but nobody says deep fryers should be banned as too dangerous for household use. It’s that gun owners see a positive utility in gun ownership, that gun control advocates apparently do not.
BTW, thank you for at least not sinking to an ElvisL1ves-level of derision for gun owners.
Then we should have no laws for anything at all, since criminals ignore those laws also. God, some people are willfully ignorant, and will resist any effort to disabuse them of their ignorance.
We shouldn’t require people to have driver’s licenses and insurance, because criminals will just drive anyway. We shouldn’t put locks on the doors of our houses, because criminals will break in anyway. We shouldn’t have bodyguards for the President, because criminals will just find a way to kill him/her anyway.
When I saw this thread updated I thought it would be this story. So this father wanted to teach his son “how to be a man” by teaching him how to responsibly shoot and ends up killing the kid by being almost inconceivably stupid with a loaded gun in his hand. Seriously, does this idiot also use a loaded gun to scratch his back? Yes, I feel bad that he lost his son but he deserves every bit of guilt he feels and the fact that he is using this to solicit money makes me sick.
Pardon me for quoting myself, but I insecurely feel that my link was ignored. (It’s Patch, so I don’t blame anyone.)
What these fellas lacked in middle of the night coyote shooting skills they made up for with “excuse us, were you sleeping?” neighbor’s house shooting ability.
DGU right there.
Damn Guys Ur house is all fucked up now!
They started the gofundme campaign with a goal of $10,000. So far they’ve raised $25,253. While not ignoring the idiocy of this man, to be fair it’s possible that funeral and burial expenses could be as much as $10,000. Of course they’ve now raised more than twice that amount, so I hope that whatever’s left over goes toward promoting gun safety or something similar.
This “responsible, law-abiding citizen” just killed his son. Tell us, is there a way the kid might still be alive? Or is this just another of the deaths that the fetishists tell us is “acceptable” in the cause of the Holy Second Commandment? :dubious:
Now the Dad is saying, “the gun didn’t kill my son, I did.” Okay.
So, if they DIDN’T have the bleeding gun, the kid would be alive and happy! WTF? Hell, if they were at a knife-throwing range, there wouldn’t be any hot shell casing in anyone’s shirt or any guns to go off!
Or he’d have found some way to accidentally stab him, or run him over with a car, or drown him in the swimming pool, or dunked him in the fryer. Kid was gonna die no matter what, right?
Gun deaths are actually the 7th on the list of preventable causes of death.
So why go after guns?
Because it’s easier to tell someone else to give up their weapons than it is to put down the fork and push away from the table. Or to not light up. But hey, control and responsibility is hard when you’re the one it applies to.
Smoking. According to the CDC, over 40,000 deaths can be attributed to secondhand smoke each year. (-v- 11,000 gun homicides)
Obesity. Nevermind, childhood obesity is totally the kid’s fault.
Alcohol. The innocent victims here probably are probably counted in #6.
Infectious disease.
Toxins. Presumably all victims are innocent of this one.
Automobile accidents. Including innocent victims of drunk drivers from #3.
Guns. Finally something you can demonize and pass do-nothing feel-good legislation against and claim you at least tried since the big bad NRA won’t let you ban and confiscate them all.
Try for a ban on tobacco and you’ll find out whose payroll the politicians are really on.
Simply because guns make people stupid. From what I can tell, there appears to be around a 12~15% drop in CSIQ when any given person has a gun in hand. A few folks have a MoE that accommodates that, but the average for American, that kind of mental handicap is a bad thing.
