So, the old chestnut about letting the current gun laws do their thing is bullshit?
And John Lott is already out saying that what we need is more guns…not less:
“If more people were carrying guns, the attack might have been stopped even faster and more lives would have been saved.”
I bet with a few more guns in play they could’ve limited the dead to only 15! These hypotheticals are what I call solid gun control.
hmm,
But I thought guns don’t save people, people save people.
No charges filed, of course.
I can’t stop giggling at this sentence - “A man accidentally shot himself and his wife at an East Tennessee church on Thursday while he was showing off his gun during a discussion on recent church shootings”
He broke the cardinal rule #1, “Treat the gun as it is loaded always.”
What an idiot, makes us handgunners look bad.
You don’t squeeze the friggin trigger to prove it’s not loaded.
Oh by the way, he broke the cardinal rule #2, #3 and #4 too. A real stupid ass who should not have a gun.
Not only is he not being charged, he’s not even going to lose his carry permit.
I understand that there are plenty of responsible gun owners in the United States, but this is precisely the kind of person that guns need to be taken away from. He’s over 80 years old, and by his own admission he’s carried a gun for years and takes it everywhere, and yet he STILL apparently doesn’t know the difference between chambering a round and inserting a magazine. He also appears not to know what the “loaded chamber” indicator on his own gun means.
Right, he carried the gun for years and learned nothing? :rolleyes:
I’m a licensed carry and I made sure I know what I need to know about the guns, the laws and the gun safety. I practiced it so long that it’s a habit.
I wasn’t aware these were a regular feature these days so I did some Googling. Based on a cursory scan of results, there appears to be some differences of opinion as to how useful they are in practice (as opposed to simply being there to keep dumbasses from suing gun manufacturers).
But yeah, anyone pulling the trigger on a gun not intending for it to go ‘bang’ is courting disaster.
Another report of stupid gun news and a tragedy - someone dies.
I grew up and learned to hunt not too far from where this woman died, but hunting deer after dark, with a pistol and then taking a 200 yard shot is stupid and NOT what I learned.
Oh, my, yes, jasg, as a casual target shooter who’s never hunted, even I knew what a screwup in so many ways that jerk is. Jaw-droppingly stupid, and I hope the authorities charge him with all possible criminal offenses – just hunting after sundown and failing to properly identify what he was shooting at have got to be crimes, let alone negligent homicide.
And who the hell goes deer hunting with a pistol?!?
Some do hunt with a pistol but this is plain stupidity at its worst. The cardinal rules had been broken big time.
There has to be a way to keep the dumbbells away from guns.
Why was it so urgent to kill the deer anyway? Was it one of those mutant deer with six-inch fangs that break into homes and eat the children?
Gun grabber!! Look, look at the gun grabber!! You can’t take our FREEEEEEEEEDUMB!!
This is a typical single shot pistolfor hunting. Often chambered for rifle cartridges.
Ah, I see. Lots of recoil? I was thinking, .22 pistol for varmints, yeh, but big game?
Toldja I was just a casual target shooter. 
There is, and more or less every other Western country has implemented some flavor of it.
Problem is, it won’t ever work in the US. Or, so I’ve been told. I’m not sure why; it may be American Exceptionalism, it may be the religious fundamentalist attitude towards the US constitution’s 2nd Amendment, or it may be something else.
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Rifle calibers run from 17 HMR to 45 Colt/410 Bore(except California).
Good grief. I really need to get out more, eh? 