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Guns go off accidentally all the time due to many reasons. I think it is ironic that we have so many concealed carriers when our crime rate has never been lower and has steadily declined for almost 20 years.
This is the result of the gun panic of 2 years ago. I live in the same state where this tragedy occurred, and it is the 3rd incident of accidental discharge since early fall. One incident was a college teacher whose concealed gun went off while he was teaching class and shot him in the foot. The second incident came from when a concealed gun was accidentally dropped and went off in a store when it hit the floor.
I fully expect to see more incidents coming. Sooner or later, an innocent bystander will be killed, and there will be a whopping lawsuit that follows. I expect that will chill a few of the paranoids out. Being in the wrong place when a criminal is involved is going to be much more rare than incidents like this. I dread the day when two concealed carriers shoot it out with each other and kill everyone around them. It's going to happen. I hope I'm not there, or anyone I know.
First of all, the lady was visiting, she's not from that area.
Second, we don't do away with people's rights just because some people are stupid. You don't make a bunch of laws because a small percentage does themselves in. That's the problem with liberals, one person does something, they want to pass a law, forgetting that a huge percentage of people have NO ISSUES with doing things the right way.
Cars are registered and drivers are licensed.
And cars are insured.
Might work for guns too.
They wouldn't have to be registered and licensed if there was a right to own a car and drive. As we have all been trained it is a privilege to drive that can be taken away.
-- Around 11:50 p.m. Saturday, Middletown police responded to the 2000 block of Queen Avenue for reports of two people shot. Middletown Police Lt. Scott Reeve said a group of friends were looking at a gun that one of the friends had just gotten when James Terrell, 35, of Middletown, accidentally shot himself in the hand. “He (Terrell) didn’t think it was loaded,” Reeve said. “He has told us the first time he pulled the trigger he had his hand on the muzzle … and he pulled the trigger and nothing happened. He backed his hand off and pulled again and a bullet went through his hand and into his friend that was sitting next to him.” The bullet traveled through Terrell’s hand and hit the stomach of Aaron T. Johnson, 27, of Monroe. Both men were taken to Atrium Medical Center where Johnson later died, police said. Monroe man killed in accidental shooting | www.journal-news.com
They wouldn't have to be registered and licensed if there was a right to own a car and drive. As we have all been trained it is a privilege to drive that can be taken away.
Good point. New Second addendum. Cars are as important as arms and the right to keep qnd use automobiles cannot be infringed?
First of all, the lady was visiting, she's not from that area.
Second, we don't do away with people's rights just because some people are stupid. You don't make a bunch of laws because a small percentage does themselves in. That's the problem with liberals, one person does something, they want to pass a law, forgetting that a huge percentage of people have NO ISSUES with doing things the right way.
You are intentionally being a bit dishonest here, the woman was visiting the Panhandle, she is from eastern Idaho, so she is still from the same state.
Second, why are gun nuts so afraid of gun safety laws? If one is too dumb to pass a gun safety law, then that person should be denied a gun.
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