Accidental discharge!

[torpid]

But ultimately cars are the bigger threat - and you don't see anybody getting up in arms and saying cars should be banned.

But there's a vocal and fervent group of people who do want to see guns banned, and a lot of fence sitters who listen to sound bites. "There are two types of shooters. Those who have had an ND and those who will have an ND... it will happen eventually" is a tailor-made sound bite for the anti-gun lobby.

Does anybody go through life without one? Sure. Does anybody go through life without a car accident? Probably.

So you don't say,"There are two types of drivers. Those who have had a crash and those who will have a crash... it will happen eventually."

Then why say it with firearms when it can be used to convey an erroneous perception of negligence that works to destroy our gun rights?


Once again, I certainly respect where the saying is coming from, just not how it comes across when said that way.

 

[pdowg881]

I think the car crash analogy is wrong because a car crash is more likely than an ND because you are not the only one that can harm yourself on a road. You may be driving totally safely and responsibly and you get broadsided by some idiot. But when you are by yourself with a gun it isn't someone else's fault if you have an ND.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

I had an AD with my 22 rifle over 35 years ago. I never want it to happen again so I double and triple check. In my mind there is nothing worse than knowing you have screwed up and there is nothing you can do to change where it goes or what it does. I did not touch a gun for several years after my incident, Nobody got hurt or even was remotely in danger but it still bothered me.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

At the local firing range there is a hole in the ceiling just staring at the bright blue sky. Read my signature.

 

[Cableguy]

TV shot

Ok I'll add my 4 cents here......

(play theme to real stories of the higway patrol, err the cableguy)


I had a service call one day in the Hyde Park/Oakley area of our fine City, for a no pic thing, typical call, get there and as I walk up on the porch here is a 21 or 27 " sony sittin there with a busted glass tube in front, at first look I thought someone threw something at there TV, (boy was I sorta close), get inside and the guy was like freaky, leary, I was playing it cool, he's got a new tv sittin on the floor and couldn't get it hooked up, No problem I said, can take care of that, would you mind moving the ak-47 off the top of it first? Seems he had a few toys out an was cleaning and showing off to a buddy, so, as I go to hook up the new set, I get him to tell me the rest of the story, seems it was a recent Sunday after a Bengals football game loss, he got pissed pulled out his 45 an shot the TV, OK we have a winner.... I am thinking, but odd thing is the shot stayed in the set, no penetration out the back in the wall or such, wow, must have been a HP.... I have had a few situations where I encountered guns in the rooms while working... But he made my top 10 list of all time, right up there with the balck women that are drinking gin, and like to lock the door behind the cableguy and offer to check his cable...... But Thats another story and website.

Later,