Guy accidentally shoots gun off in Target
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There's also no reason gun owners shouldn't be required to undergo safety and training classes before being allowed to own a firearm.
Mandatory training coupled with universal background checks are -- or at least should be -- the basics of proving (to a certain extent at least) which sensible, responsible gun owners are actually sensible and responsible.
Mandatory training coupled with universal background checks are -- or at least should be -- the basics of proving (to a certain extent at least) which sensible, responsible gun owners are actually sensible and responsible.
Nihilistic Monk
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Open carry with a silencer on?
Is that in case you drop it & discharge like this bro you can hope no one notices?
Then we would have held a ceremony for the cashier the third armed hero for their valiant efforts.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Because this has become an intolerable situation that other developed countries do not deal with. You want to hear less bitching about it, then you best have an idea on how we can stop stories like this (and typically much worse) from happening constantly.
Ayato Kanzaki
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And just how many human lives is your "individual right" worth?
We humans live in society, which imply certain limits we impose ourselves. We are not free, for example, to kill and steal, and scores of other behaviors that threaten society. "Freedom" is a good slogan, but any good thing can become bad when taken to extremes.
So, if you're already accepting certain limitations for the sake of living among others, isn't it downright hypocritical to suddenly take a stand for Freedom and stuff, against something that would reduce the number of people killed each year?
Driving is strictly regulated. Do you see drivers whining about speed limitations because it infringe on their freedom?
UltraGunner
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Why do all crazy gunowners shop at Target?
Limited Edition
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Make a thread here on Gaf about speeding once. I'm sure you'll get a few bites.
And who's going to teach them that? Travis McClavis from Fuckbuttle Guns Superstore Texas sure as hell ain't mandating no safety classes before supplying the average joe with a gun.
oneils
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Jesus fucking Christ.
"Guns save lives"
soul creator
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"Folks wanna pop off..." - Obama
What is the hobbyist argument against keeping all of your guns at the range?
He's trolling, you wouldn't open carry an HK unless you WANTED to be robbed, with your rich man's OPERATOR gun on display like a deadly rolex
DixieFlatline
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They should revoke his Tier 1 Operator card anyway for shopping at Target. They don't carry 5.11 cargo pants OR Oakley sunglasses. He should be bumped down to Tier 3 AT LEAST.
It wasn't an accident, it was negligence.
Willful disregard for the safety of everyone and anyone around him.
The shooter in the OP is no better than a drunk driver.
Suppressor on Holstered weapon reduces draw time and is a Tactically Inconceivable Tier-1 Slip-up (TITS).
Due to TITS Violation recommend demotion to standard Rangers or below immediately, 0/10 would not operate with
Dropping a gun: In this case, someone could have been killed.
Dropping virtually anything else: The thing breaks. Or it doesn't. Oh well.
Sarcasm ? Gotta be sarcasm.
SolicitorPirate
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As an Australian, I always enjoy reading arguments for gun rights, as they are always predicated on the assumption that other first world countries do not exist.
EatinOlives
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appaws
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Thank you. I try even though I am outnumbered. I like the spirit of GAF though. I could go to a million places like The High Road where everyone would agree with me, but what fun is that.
I get a little bummed when it crosses into name calling though and I try never to do that myself.
Yes, people whine about speed limits all the time. Maybe they are right and we should have no speed limits, maybe they are wrong. I don't know. What I do know is that it is not an issue of rights. Driving and transportation have never been thought of as fundamental rights in the way that speech, religion, bearing arms, etc. have.
Civilian ownership of firearms, however, is an issue of rights. An issue of creating a countervailing power to the state.
I do not think it is hypocritical to support some limits and not others. Of course I support limits, I am not an anarchist. I think it is best to enforce limits on individuals who have demonstrated that they cannot exercise their right in a proper manner, instead of on the population at large. Felons, those adjudged mentally incompetent, etc., after due process can have some rights stripped from them.
I don't know if there is a pure hobbyist argument. Of course there are non-hobbyist arguments...but since that is not what you asked for I guess there is no need to go over what we have discussed in lots of threads already.
If the shooting hobby was the only reason to have a gun, I guess you would be right.
User 73706
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And he's white? I am shocked.
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Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
Gun are getting safer. There's handguns with extreme safety measures, that won't let the gun fire unless the trigger is actually pulled. Trigger safeties are on almost every popular handgun like Glock, XD, M&P, Ruger, and a lot of the other popular brands. And some of them like the XD have grip safeties which have to be depressed in order for the gun to fire. I walked around yesterday with a pistol in my pocket and didn't drop it, it was his accident.
There was an infuriating story on 60 Minutes a couple months back on how difficult it is to implement smart guns. A store owner was initially going to start carrying them, but gun owners from around the country complained at him, some even sending death threats. All over some obscure provision in one state's statutes that likely would have been both unenforceable and probably struck down quickly if challenged.
Ayato Kanzaki
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Of course he is. Armed black men get trigger-happy cops called on them before they have time to have accidents with their guns.
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The Autumn Wind
Great, how about we make those safety measures mandatory on all guns?
I can't...
This is why America is a laughing stock. Full stupidity proudly embraced.
In your fucking pocket? No holster or anything? That seems extremely stupid.
You live in Michigan and form a militia of other white people.
Gravy Boat
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you think they'll move somewhere else where they don't even have hand guns to protect themselves from their governments tanks and bombs?
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Because all the other first world countries have already taken away all the precious gun rights. It was a tragedy when all those governments slaughtered all their citizens.
They have to own guns so that they can defend their guns in case the government ever tries to take their guns. I know people say that it's more general than that, but gun rights are the only encroachment by government I've ever seen widespread revolutionary sentiment over by gun rights activists.
This is garbage.
no in his gun pocket, other items are in the fucking pocket
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