Friends with bad habits

[Yohan]

<Rant>Friends with bad habits

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My drummer owns a lever action type air rifle. The other day during practice, our mixer was acting up, so I was asking him if he had a air sprayer to get rid of the dirt. One thing led to another, and before we knew it, he had the air rifle in hand in the garage. He checked the rifle again and again- and the chamber was empty. We tried to clear some dirt by shooting it with the air rifle, without much success. So, since we were all bored anyway, we decided to take a small break.

But suddenly, my drummer turned the rifle on my bass guitarist (keep in mind we had checked the bb gun over and over again so it was empty), and naturally, I let out a "Ahh! Don't do that" yell. To which my drummer replied with a dumb founded look.

Was I over-reacting? I have a tendency to freak out if anyone points that air-rifle at me. When I put the air rifle down, I do it with the muzzle facing the wall. Even if the gun is just lying there with no one near it, I find it unnerving to stare down the barrel.

Just today, I was hanging out with my bass guitarist when he got a hold of my air rifle when I went out of the room. I promptly returned and the first thing I saw when I entered the room was him pointing the rifle at me with a grin. I walked back out and told him to put the rifle away. I'm sure you all have done some pretty stupid and risky things as teenagers. But am I getting too paranoid? Granted, it's just a stupid air rifle, but I sure wouldn't like someone shooting it at me. Am I over-reacting? I trust my band mates and all, but I'm not sure if I want to hang out with people who fail to follow basic safety rules. Was I an idiot for trying to use an air rifle as a air sprayer? Let me get your input. And while the rant mode is on, Glocks = ugly. Thanks

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[Jesse H]

I woulda had the same reaction.

Once I was greeted at my friends house by his little brother. He was pointing an unloaded Tangfolio at me. He was damned lucky I didn't draw on him.

 

[SASS#23149]

Friends don't point guns at friends...

OR anything else thay don't intend to shoot!!!
even an "air rifle" can permanently injure you.
Explain gun safety to the group,in a calm fatherly fashion,and if the dont "get it",find new friends before you get hurt.

The jury is still out on using the "air gun" as an air gun.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

It's good practice to never aim any kind of gun at another person. Unless of course it's a paintball gun.

Air guns are especially bad because of the crap that can accumulate in the bores getting forced out and causing injury.

You were right and most of us would have had the same reaction.

 

[TrapperReady]

A couple weeks ago, I was at a sporting goods store with my two kids, and a couple young guys were checking out a Kimber .45. After the second time one nimrod had crossed my 4 year old with the muzzle (from 20 feet away), I walked over and informed him that he should treat all guns as if they are loaded and point it somewhere safe, and NOT at my kids.

He gave me somewhat clueless look, but from then on he pointed the weapon at one of the deer heads on the wall.

Morons. IMO, behavior like that should cause the salesmen to take the gun away, and hand them a brochure for an NRA-approved safety course.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I think you need a new band.

 

[J Miller]

No, you did not over react!
I have a Daisy BB gun that on more than one ocassion has been repeated checkt and proved to be empty. Then from some recess inside will come a BB and it will shoot.
So as with any gun, never point it at anything you don't want to shoot.

 

[thumbtack]

Glocks are a thing of Beauty.

If you get a new band you can call yourselves, "The Glocks"

A Daisy Single Cock BB may not kill you, but in the words of mama "you can lose an eye with that thing."

 

[Yohan]

The Glocks? I'd rather be called The "Pink Poogywoogygoogly Bears" than the Glocks. The thing is, when he pointed it, he had his finger in the trigger guard. Scarier thing is, he has on occasion pulled the trigger- with the air pumped- at me. He caught hell from me when he did it though.

 

[Archie]

No and Yes.

You did not over-react to having any kind of gun pointed at you.

Normal reaction is to remove the threat and convince the pointer, by any and all means requisite, not to do that EVERY AGAIN. If you did not beat him silly, or position the gun so he can carry it without use of his hands, you did not over-react.

Using the airgun as an air-gun was probably a bad idea.... it gives the feeling that "this thing" really isn't a gun.

Yes, I did some very silly and dangerous things in my mis-spent youth. Some involved guns; more involved cars.

 

[Yohan]

Guns = Tools. I was reading an article about how old timers would use their SAA revolvers as hammers sometimes. Where is the line between being resourceful and being dumb?

 

[BerettaNut92]

LOL I thought you ditched your dummer?!?!?!

At my friend's place this girl brought an Airsoft Beretta Inox. They were shooting it in the living room with all of us crowded in there .

My two pet peeves are unsecured firearms and unsolved Rubik's cubes laying around. I dropped the mag out (she topped it off ) and since I couldn't lock the slide open, I stuck a pencil in there.

Another guy (a friend of a friend) said "Jeez, it's just a toy gun." He also knows enough about ballistics because he's a engineering student and plays enough counterstrike to know enough about guns.

Whatever. And I'm the dangerous one!

 

[pax]

Where is the line between being resourceful and being dumb?

In my experience, by the time a guy thinks to ask that question, he's already several miles over the line.

pax

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. -- George Kneller

 

[Phyphor]

Skunk said

" and plays enough counterstrike to know enough about guns"

Oh. My. God.

ANYONE who claims to know guns by playing Counterstrike should be taken out and clubbed like a baby seal. Or better yet, should be made to take a saftey course and actually fire a real gun.

I mean, c'mon, this is the same game that had the FN P-90 ejecting spent brass out the SIDE, and had the Glock 18 as a 3-rd burst weapon.

 

[BerettaNut92]

About that guy. I say, 'I'm going to put a ping pong ball up at 50 feet. 21 feet is the limit, but I don't want anything coming back.'

He argues that it's physically impossible for a ping pong ball fragment to come back 21 feet at me. Like I care. Bad stuff happens when boomsticks and sharpsticks are involved and I don't take any chances!!!

But he felt pretty adamant about convincing me. Having taken physics and all

 

[Sven]

But suddenly, my drummer turned the rifle on my bass guitarist

Great quote. Dangerous Move.

"You'll shoot yer eye out"... brain shot = possible instant death. Criminal, civil charges, a lifetime of suffering.

Not worth it.

-

I try to avoid letting my drummers get a hold of anything sharper than a garden tool, based on past experiences.

Good drummers are hard to find.

-sven

 

[Greg L]

Good drummers are hard to find.

Especially when Spinal Tap is in town.

Greg

 

[BerettaNut92]

Sven.

Q: Why shouldn't you let your drummer take point with an 870 on an entry team?
















A: Because they never know when to come in.

 

[Double Maduro]

Do you know why drummers keep a pair of sticks on their dash board?








So they can park in handicapped spaces.


Musician friends told me that.

 

[Beav]

No over-reaction.

I know two people that are blind in one eye due to BB guns.

 

[Double Maduro]

Oh and just a thought.

Did you ever consider putting the BB gun away when your friends were coming over? If they can't get their hands on it they can't point it at you or anyone else.

Just a thought.

 

[coonan357]

Yohan I would say hold on a second I 'm gonna do it like you :


\\ beat him up long the side of the head with tthe stock of the thing and pound some sense into that boythen he will get the hint ....\\


now I know that your \\= liberal , but coonans\\= senseable male from the 50's! A.K.A. my dad

 

[makdaddy03]

Thats a drummer and bassist for you.

 

[shermacman]

My Daisy air rifle can crush a squirrel's head at 100' (how do I know that?!). A pellet through the side of the neck would cut the carotid artery. Very messy, lots of blood, bleed out in a very few panic-filled minutes. Taking an eye out is easy, blasting out some crud that got stuck in the barrel would leave you blind also. Remember how Bruce Lee's son died? Those guys were supposedly weapons experts, they 'knew' that gun was empty.

 

[illuminatus99]

never had that problem, all the members of my band are shooters and very safety oriented.