wacki
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EDIT: ok I agree this is a poorly worded title. This is not exactly about common sense but information that's not exactly well organized.
I've seen a ton of news stories of firearm mistakes posted on this forum. The Mexican carry guy that shot himself twice. The bad holster in the backpack that paralyzed a woman. There is no excuse for that. And I know I've seen a lot of people mishandle firearms. Heck last week somebody I barely knew handed me a gun without informing me that the magazine was full or checking to see if I knew proper firearm safety. Many of these incidents could easily be avoided if people were simply better informed. A safety pamphlet/CD was handed out with each firearm might be better. A CD/book would certainly be a far more cost effective way of distributing the information and it would certainly remove any privacy concerns. Everyone here seems to insist on taking a self defense class anyway.
Why doesn't anyone push the most common sense form gun control of all? I mean I see no reason why some gun safety CD shouldn't be attached to each firearm sold. The NRA and gun companies should be doing this on a voluntary basis anyway. They can even use it as an easy way to slip in some gun facts to fight the misinformation campaign by anti's. And for every accident we avoid, that just makes us look that much better.
Cold Steel sends me free DVD's to show off their knives. So the gun companies should have no problems doing it. Heck gun companies can spend 1/2 of the DVD talking up their company and the other 1/2 of the DVD as part of a standardized NRA/THR sponsored safety/anti-anti course. That would save on costs for sure. I mean gun companies hand out catalogs anyway. Money is not the issue.
A lot of gun owners don't know proper gun safety. And almost all gun owners don't understand how badly the gun control advocates skew the statistics. I certainly didn't before I came here. It's time to fix that.
EDIT II: not talking legislation. Just a volunteer "get the information out" project.
I've seen a ton of news stories of firearm mistakes posted on this forum. The Mexican carry guy that shot himself twice. The bad holster in the backpack that paralyzed a woman. There is no excuse for that. And I know I've seen a lot of people mishandle firearms. Heck last week somebody I barely knew handed me a gun without informing me that the magazine was full or checking to see if I knew proper firearm safety. Many of these incidents could easily be avoided if people were simply better informed. A safety pamphlet/CD was handed out with each firearm might be better. A CD/book would certainly be a far more cost effective way of distributing the information and it would certainly remove any privacy concerns. Everyone here seems to insist on taking a self defense class anyway.
Why doesn't anyone push the most common sense form gun control of all? I mean I see no reason why some gun safety CD shouldn't be attached to each firearm sold. The NRA and gun companies should be doing this on a voluntary basis anyway. They can even use it as an easy way to slip in some gun facts to fight the misinformation campaign by anti's. And for every accident we avoid, that just makes us look that much better.
Cold Steel sends me free DVD's to show off their knives. So the gun companies should have no problems doing it. Heck gun companies can spend 1/2 of the DVD talking up their company and the other 1/2 of the DVD as part of a standardized NRA/THR sponsored safety/anti-anti course. That would save on costs for sure. I mean gun companies hand out catalogs anyway. Money is not the issue.
A lot of gun owners don't know proper gun safety. And almost all gun owners don't understand how badly the gun control advocates skew the statistics. I certainly didn't before I came here. It's time to fix that.
EDIT II: not talking legislation. Just a volunteer "get the information out" project.
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