He seems to suggest that the gun belonged to a visitor who left it on the seat without his being aware of it there. Because, why look bad when you can fob it off.
This tragedy is the real gun reality.
The selling point from the NRA is, “oh, Ima Cowboy and nobody is going to mess with my house and my family. See? Look at my bright shiny new gun! Using ammo that has been field tested and proven to take down deer at 100 yards… now in a convenient back pocket size!”.
Its a solution for a problem that for many people just doesn’t exist*
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*The way that three thirds = 0.9999999999999 = 1 because the difference is virtually indistinguishable from 1, 0.000000000000000001 = 0, because the difference is virtually indistinguishable from 0.
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The only problem that person had was that he couldn’t stop his 16 year old daughter from sneaking in and out of his house late at night. There are many tools that can help with that: communication, family counselling, etc. You can even turn on the porch light so she knows that you know that she left the house. A gun is the wrong tool to solve teen curfew issues.
Yes, a gun is a tool. We all have tools to fix, repair, build things, and to help us with our hobbies. But we all know that using the right tool correctly is the key to any project. You don’t use chisels as pry bars. You turn off the electricity before you work on anything electrical, you don’t use your wood working tools on metal, you don’t use your metal working tools on wood.
And you don’t use guns to make your children mind you.
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Are you sure about that? It seems like he will never have to worry about his teen sneaking out ever again. Family counseling or leaving the porch light on aren’t nearly so permanent solutions to the problem.
“Hi, Mr. Babale? It’s Bruce from The Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company.
It looks like we won’t be paying the claim on your daughter’s policy…”
It’s the solution that creates its own problem that it’s the solution to.
Oh no, let’s not go starting THAT up again!
They are not virtually indistinguishable, they are identically the same. There was another huge thread on that somewhere around here so let’s not exhume it further in this one.
There were several threads, one of which went on and on ad (nearly) infinitum. I will kindly not link any of them here.
Who knows, she might have been robbing the place. We’ll never know now.
Probably a good thing he stood his ground.
So you admit there’s a difference?
I once knew this guy named Zeno who claimed .999… didn’t equal 1, among other things, . . . so I shot him.
He only did things halfway.
You once shot a man named Zeno just to see him die?
Fortunately for him, the bullet had to go half-way to him before it could hit him, so he was safe (even if he couldn’t move out of the way of the bullet for the same reason it couldn’t hit him)
And still another story proving that kids and guns don’t mix, from the small town of Wamego, Kansas.
A Wamego woman is fighting for her life after officials say she was accidentally shot by her small child.
According to the Wamego Police Department, emergency responders were called to a home at 105 E. Valley St., Lot 8 at 8:22 a.m. Wednesday.
When crews arrived, they found a 31-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper chest area.
She was rushed to Stormont Vail in Topeka with critical injuries.
Officials say evidence indicates the woman was shot by a handgun fired by a small child.
Classic Good Toddler with a Gun.
OMG, Stewie finally shot Lois!
Now, if only I could have Lacey Chabert voice Meg Griffin, it would be a Perfect Day!
Following a minor traffic accident, Florida man rams his BMW into a Prius, then pulls gun and shoots at it. Prius driver draws his own gun and a shootout ensues. BMW driver shot dead, widow says he was “assassinated”.