AD = Endangerment at local WalMart

[feralmerril]

A airplane will crash and one person gets killed its almost national news. Meanwhile a couple hundred die nationwide in cars and you wont hear about it in the adjoining town, or even across town.
Still, I am sick of hearing people damning people that get in any type accident. Thats why they are called accidents. We have heard of bill jordan killing another officer, also heard that jeff cooper haveing a accident. No one gets into a accident on purpose. I have had accidents on cycles, planes and cars and even on my quad. Handeled guns every day for 35 years on my job and that doesnt count at home forever. I hope and try to be carefull that it doesnt happen to me, yet I have seen accidents happen to better than me in all afore mentioned areas. Everytime I here this pious talk I think buster, you aint lived long enough yet and aint smart as you think.

 

[hiram2005]

I wonder if this guy will try to sue Wal-Mart for putting the toilet paper dispenser too low.

Darn right! WHY are they put so low????

 

[Stu Honea]

Knowing the accurate reporting of a newspaper--was it really a revolver??

Very true.Local news in my area have referred to Glock revolvers.

 

[markush]

Just yesterday in the local paper it was written that a "Ruger Blackhawk .357" Had discharged when it fell from a table while being cleaned. The bullet went through his calf.

 

[OK Hog Shooter]

I was always taught to keep a bean outta the pot with any older style pistola. Guess maybe there's something to that!

 

[norm]

Darn right! WHY are they put so low????

If they put em up high they are violating the rights of midgets

 

[OLDFED]

When ever I'm on the Throne, I do a crossword puzzle instead of examining my revolver. So far, I haven't had any accidental discharges attributed to the crossword. The loud discharges emanate from another source...not my revolver.

 

[mball]

When ever I'm on the Throne, I do a crossword puzzle instead of examining my revolver. So far, I haven't had any accidental discharges attributed to the crossword. The loud discharges emanate from another source...not my revolver.

It's only an accidental discharge if you don't get your pants down in time.

 

[blujax01]

Let me put it this way - if you have a true "accidental discharge" which by definition is caused by a failure of the mechanism(s) keeping the firearm from discharging - I will listen to an argument that the person holding said firearm was not at fault and should be let go without penalty.

If however, you were playing with your gun in a restroom stall, or showing off your gun to another person, or hiding in a closet in church attempting to sell a gun(!) and said firearm discharges, that is a "negligent" discharge and was certainly no accident.
And Mister, if the round from your folly kills my kid, I'll follow you to Hell and back to make certain you get what's coming to you.

That is a promise.

 

[keith44spl]

I may have drop'd my ol Colt Dragoon on the floor at wally...Had the hammer let down between the caps

Naw, Jest kiddin y'all, 'em Walkers are a lit'l bit much for CCW.




Just glad on-one was hurt.


Su Amigo,
Dave

 

[Onomea]

The local NY rags back in the all revolver days would report "police officer was cleaning his gun at home when it went off". Yeah, right.

I realized a few years ago that those articles I used to read when I was a kid, back in the days when people had more tact, about guys getting killed while cleaning their guns were actually about suicides. I would suppose that most adults understood the articles as such.

 

[jkc]

I realized a few years ago that those articles I used to read when I was a kid, back in the days when people had more tact, about guys getting killed while cleaning their guns were actually about suicides. I would suppose that most adults understood the articles as such.

Really? Very interesting --- it had never crossed my mind that "cleaning it and it 'went off' " was a trope or euphemism for suicide, but it does make some sense, given its common use, the unlikelihood of anyone remotely familiar with guns trying to clean a loaded one, or actually injuring themselves fatally while so doing... I learn something interesting here with every visit... I'd be pleased, so to speak, to hear other confirmations of this.

 

[TAROMAN]

Any time I hear or read a popular press/news media of any gun involved incident I always remember where the reporters get their information:

 

[chud333]

Not gonna judge the guy since i don't know all the facts but sounds like someone who does'nt really need to be carrying a firearm. Like previous poster said, he kills or injures one of my grandkids due to a brainfart, he'd better know i'm coming after him. Mr. Feral w/all due respect we've got to hold ourselves to a higher standard as gun owners or else there will soon be NO Gun Owners.


chuck

 

[Dadsnugun]

Any time I hear or read a popular press/news media of any gun involved incident I always remember where the reporters get their information:

Fixed it for ya!

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Don't know what happened here, but in a lot of the cases discussed on these boards it isn't an accident or bad luck at the root of the issue, but rather a deliberate act. Pulling out a loaded gun in public to play with or to show off is a deliberate act. It's not the result of bad luck, or just a matter of time on Earth until you find yourself inadvertently hiding in a church closet with a loaded gun in your hand to play show and tell.

There are some inadvertent acts that are difficult to avoid, but there are a great many deliberate acts that are 100% avoidable 100% of the time for an entire lifetime with no luck or special gun expertise required. I think it does a disservice to characterize tragedies resulting from these type deliberate acts as "stuff happens".

 

[captorquewrench]

This happens often. Too often. A recent post told about a lady setting her purse on the floor in a mall and it went off, striking a shopper in the legs. A local man was dropping his pants in the local police station restroom and his revolver hit the floor and went off.

Many, if not most, of todays handguns are drop safe but none of them are idiot proof.

This is exactly why I do NOT put my gun in my purse. I like my gun on my person, and if I HAVE to put it in a bag, it's a bag designed for carry with the hidden compartment.

Also concerned about purse nabbers getting my purse if my gun is in it. I would, best case fairy tale world scenario, be out my carry piece.--at worse, realistically, tangled up in a nightmare if (read:when) they used it for nefarious purposes.

 

[ladder13]

Everyone DOES have "accidents" as we all know. Going to a restaurant and getting spaghetti sauce all over your shirt is an "accident". Pulling out your gun and playing footsie under the table, and shooting the waiter, is "negligent".