Anyone have an issue with this?

[joeintexas]

I agree this man used very bad judgement. Unloaded gun? Did it have a sign on it saying unloaded or was the people in the stands watching just suppose to assume that? What do you think would people think if he took a soccer ball to a gun range and started kicking it around, I'd be a little concerned about his sanity. Should we be concerned what the anti's think, you bet we should! Their opinions impress just as ours do, this was not a favorable example of responsible gun ownership in my opinion.

 

[steelslaver]

I am in the just because you can doesn't mean you should camp. Did he do anything wrong. Yes, he mad a bunch of people uncomfortable for no real reason. I am a definite gun guy, second amendment guy, and if I saw something like that I would have to wonder what was up.

If I was in the lobby of the HS gym and some guy was practicing his karate moves, I would have to wonder about him to.

I live where there are pretty open views about guns. You see them and know they are around all the time. Nobody ever makes a big deal over it. Open carry is legal and you sometimes see it. In a couple weeks it will be big game season and it will be much more common and just as ignored. Our sheriff is pretty easy going and a "gun guy". You can even take your gun into the sheriff's office here. But, if I went down to the park by the soccer fields and started practicing my draw, I am sure him or a deputy would come talk to me even if no kids were around.

Some things are just poor form.

 

[vigil617]

Boiled down to the essentials, this guy is saying:

"I sometimes practice my draw in public when kids and their parents are nearby."

Not much question about whether it's a good idea, IMHO.

 

[AlHunt]

Poor judgement. Why give the anti-gun crowd gossip fodder?

 

[Muss Muggins]

Not sure we've ever agreed more . . .

I see and mostly agree with what just about everyone has said here though I don't think he's stupid, maybe just using poor judgement.

Having said that, allow me to play the other side for a moment and let's look at this from a different perspective...

The way I see this story, he moved away from the general spectator area to a place where people weren't. He then unloaded his gun and was practicing with an unloaded gun. Remember, it was dry firing and trigger control practice. Do you read something else?

If that's the case, and the muzzle was kept in the safest direction, what's the issue? Have the antis numbed us so much that we're doing their work for them?

If he was doing this in the stands, I would have an issue.
If he was waving a loaded gun around, I would have an issue.
If he was pointing it in the direction of other people, I would have an issue.
If he was threatening other people, I would have an issue.

Unless there's something I'm missing, he wasn't doing any of those things.

I long for the days when the mere sight of a gun didn't throw people into a panic, when the police weren't called just because someone had a gun in the vicinity, when you could carry a rifle in a gun rack in the back window of your truck and no one thought twice about it.


Yeah, I get it, you guys are concerned that he's making the gun community look bad. But isn't it really the general atmosphere, that guns are bad, that's making something that's really nothing look bad?

 

[gwpercle]

I wonder if modern medicine will ever come up with a cure for stupidity , I can see " Smart Pills " being a great money maker for the pill makers.
Might even help mankind !

 

[Narragansett]

Yeah I have an opinion. You can't get dumber and still wear clothes

 

[Rustyt1953]

This has little to do with "open carry" or the "good old days".

It is about a guy in view of a crowd (including children) repeatedly whipping a gun in and out. I can't read minds so I would have to rely on the visual clues. The result being "danger, Will Robinson"!

I would hope everyone there went to DEFCON 1. I know I would.

 

[misswired]

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[peterGun]

It WAS soccer, the poor man had do something to alleviate the boredom.


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[The Big D]

Have never understood the fascination...

...with 'dry firing.' Given there is no recoil, what is the purpose? (Please, if I am wrong, educate me.)

Similarly, I cannot understand the obsession that some seem to have with 'quick draw.' Please note I now have more than forty three (43) years of handgun toting experience...30.5 years as a LEO...and now 13 years or so as an armed citizen.

I have had more experiences with 'use' of a handgun than most people...NEVER has it required a quick draw scenario. Most times my gun simply materialized itself in my hand. A conscious thought action was not evident. (Hope this is understood...may not have expressed it properly.)

Be safe.

 

[pittpa]

I'm guessing his kid was not playing. A guy here in Monroeville shot a coach who did not play his nephew enough.

 

[Rastoff]

...with 'dry firing.' Given there is no recoil, what is the purpose? (Please, if I am wrong, educate me.)

Dry practice is a good time to work on trigger control. Without the bang and recoil you can practice hold control and learn the trigger. Those who do dry practice always have the smallest groups and most accurate shots.

 

[one eye joe]

Yeah I have an opinion. You can't get dumber and still wear clothes

I HAVE TO AGREE WITH PETE ! ! !

 

[Hapworth]

...with 'dry firing.' Given there is no recoil, what is the purpose? (Please, if I am wrong, educate me.)...

The lack of recoil is actually the chief of several dry-fire virtues: provided you're practicing with proper technique, it inculcates that technique without regard for recoil or flinch; the result is technique under live fire that is devoid of recoil anticipation.

 

[OLDSTER]

He's an example of the reason I am adamantly opposed to open carry. Absolutely no reason for any "civilian" to display a firearm How many adjectives apply; Macho, cowboy, buckaroo, hot-shot, tough guy, just plain idiot

 

[Wise_A]

In another forum I read about this guy in TN:

What do you think of this?

Problems:

(1) As the area is wooded and not a firing range, your personal basement, or other controlled environment, one cannot be sure of what is "downrange".

(2) There are children in the area. Children wander.

1 + 2 = you stoopid.

 

[M.Cunningham]

He knew it would draw attention and there is no way he didn't see people staring at him and getting uneasy. Clown.

 

[F75gunslinger]

I must respectfully disagree. Drunk drivers don't make responsible drinkers or responsible drivers look bad. Abusers of illegal controlled substances don't make legal users of prescription drugs look bad. Nothing this nice fella' did impacts me in any way . . .

And I will do the same. His actions may not impact you directly,but this type of behavior and the press it gets effects how people who are not educated in guns or on the fence between pro gun / anti gun see gun owners. Enough people do these types of things, and more and more people that don't know any gun owners think that we are all a bunch of miscreants. Especially when the media in general finds any and every opportunity to sway public opinion with bad press about gun owners. I have yet to see a story on the news about anything good that the gun owning community has done. Not because it doesn't happen, but because it doesn't feed their agenda.

Beyond that, I just see his actions as a poor choice. I can see draw and fire drills as a good thing, helping with trigger control and muscle memory especially, but his choice to do it in that location is , at best, incredibly poor judgement. More than likely he never even thought about what others would think. He may be one of those people who believes that everyone feels the same way he does and goes through life that way.

 

[moosedog]

The guy is a sphincter muscle.