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Every little disagreement is settled with a gun.
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That's the Republican way!!!
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Republican's next gun legislation...arm the toddlers!
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Now if only there had been a good guy with...
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Surprising because it takes typically a 4-5 lb average pull on a handgun trigger to fire it. A 2 year old finger?
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That's if he used his finger and didn't stick something in the trigger mechanism like a stick or a toy that pulled the trigger back.
And that child is lucky because most 2 year-olds things go from hand to mouth and he could have blown his own brains out.
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Lots of these dimwits modify their firearms to reduce the trigger pulls to nearly nothing. FWIW.
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It happens with some regularity. More like a 2-year-old hand than a finger, though.
(not being flippant, just unable to say it with proper disgust)
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I agree... but I sent this article to a couple RWNJ relatives and they are calling BS... of course, cause they love guns.W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:52 pmIt happens with some regularity. More like a 2-year-old hand than a finger, though.
(not being flippant, just unable to say it with proper disgust)
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tfg did this. What a mess we are in.neonzx wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:09 pmI agree... but I sent this article to a couple RWNJ relatives and they are calling BS... of course, cause they love guns.W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:52 pmIt happens with some regularity. More like a 2-year-old hand than a finger, though.
(not being flippant, just unable to say it with proper disgust)
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Yeah, 'hair trigger' has taken on a mystique.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:50 pm Lots of these dimwits modify their firearms to reduce the trigger pulls to nearly nothing. FWIW.
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Till they shoot themselves pulling their gun...which does happen.neeneko wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:23 pmYeah, 'hair trigger' has taken on a mystique.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 12:50 pm Lots of these dimwits modify their firearms to reduce the trigger pulls to nearly nothing. FWIW.
Gun safety tip: If you're going to set up you gun with a hair-trigger, make sure chamber does not have a bullet in it.
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The we need to bring back dueling....
Pistols at dawn!!!!
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Toddler was just getting in his/her shot first…
As statistically someone in the household was likely to be shot because the gun was there…
Survival of the quickest
As statistically someone in the household was likely to be shot because the gun was there…
Survival of the quickest
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Another child traumatized when he's old enough to realize what happened.
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i always think of this article:
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/10/florid ... n-storage/
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/10/florid ... n-storage/
Sean picked up the gun and waved it around, then took aim at a louvered glass window. He later recalled that Erin, seeming frightened, tried to run out of the room. She’d just passed by the window when Sean pulled the trigger. The bullet went in through her shoulder and lodged in her heart.
Sean dropped the gun. He picked Erin up and held her on his lap, putting his hand over the wound, trying to stop the blood. Erin’s eyes rolled back in her head. He tried to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which he’d either heard about in school or seen on TV. He called 911. “My sister’s dead,” Sean said, his voice filled with an awful, guttural panic. “I didn’t know my dad’s, my dad’s gun was loaded.” Soon the police arrived. They sat Sean in the living room as they tried in vain to resuscitate Erin. It’s been nearly 30 years, but Sean still remembers that moment. He remembers everything about that afternoon.
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Good girl with a gun? Swap the genders around a bit and this would be a perfect 'child protects their mother from attacker! RWNJ story'...
A 10-year-old girl was arrested after police say she fatally shot a woman arguing with her mom
Though given the age and arrest, why do I suspect she was a PoC and officers felt she looked older than her years?
A 10-year-old girl was arrested after police say she fatally shot a woman arguing with her mom
Though given the age and arrest, why do I suspect she was a PoC and officers felt she looked older than her years?
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The toddler shooting dad story demonstrates the need to require proving competence for gun ownership. OTOH, it also proves that outlaws will be outlaws because both parents were felons in possession.
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Yeah, but, how can my gun protect me if it's locked up and unloaded?
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My son, who is a combat vet, has guns, but they are all locked up separate from the ammo. He's joked that, if someone breaks in, he'll ask them politely to please wait while he gets his gun ready. Honestly, I don't know how to respond to that.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:29 am Yeah, but, how can my gun protect me if it's locked up and unloaded?
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Given how many burglars are really just interested in stealing whatever they can find quickly, for home defense it would not surprise me if an unloaded gun does the job just fine. While some claim 'oh it gives your position away!', racking a shotgun will probably be enough to convince most 'home invaders' that they do not want to be there anymore.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:52 am My son, who is a combat vet, has guns, but they are all locked up separate from the ammo. He's joked that, if someone breaks in, he'll ask them politely to please wait while he gets his gun ready. Honestly, I don't know how to respond to that.
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We have 3 guns, my dad’s 12-gauge double barrel shotgun he had custom made in Spain (1950 something) one 22 rifle and a 22 handgun because we live in the country and do occasionally have to shoot things other than beer cans off the fence post out front. They stay locked up separate from the ammo as well. We may bring them out once or twice a year.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:52 amMy son, who is a combat vet, has guns, but they are all locked up separate from the ammo. He's joked that, if someone breaks in, he'll ask them politely to please wait while he gets his gun ready. Honestly, I don't know how to respond to that.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:29 am Yeah, but, how can my gun protect me if it's locked up and unloaded?
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It was a while back, but I once read statistics saying that toddlers kill more people in America than Islamic Terrorists. Toddlers shooting family members is nothing new.
So, did a search, and ya Snopes checked it. It was in 2015
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/toddl ... errorists/
So, did a search, and ya Snopes checked it. It was in 2015
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/toddl ... errorists/
A little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself or someone else. These cases rarely bubble up to the national level except when someone, like a parent, ends up dead … But cases like this happen a lot more frequently than you might think. After spending a few hours sifting through news reports, I’ve found at least 43 instances this year of somebody being shot by a toddler 3 or younger. In 31 of those 43 cases, a toddler found a gun and shot himself or herself.
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