• JustTheWind@lemmy.world
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    Owner shot from behind by their own shotgun due to negligent firearm storage. Dog didn’t shoot shit.

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      Once they get a taste for blood, they never stop.

      Prequel to the critically acclaimed ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ we present to you: ‘Dog with a Shotgun’.

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    Looking at the news I would guess American houses are buit mostly out of loaded firerarms coddled together by zipties. And oversized fridges.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good boy with a gun

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      My father, an NRA member sucker that claims gun safety first, leaves a 12g fully loaded (buckshot) with one in the chamber and safety off in a soft bag with the zipper open right under him while he sleeps. He also has Parkinsons.

      You’re giving these people way too much credit by presuming they do any form of critical thinking.

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          Yea… that’s the scariest, darkest part of it. He’s also the guy standing next to you in the grocery store line proudly displaying his Glock on his hip. No idea how he carries that (i.e., chambered, hammer cocked, safety on? no clue). Imagine if something went down that actually warranted the use of the pistol while you’re standing in line…

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        You mean its not clipped into a swivel bracket on the underside of the slats for when your new partner escapes having his brains blown out in a bathtub?!

        How will we know whether he’s surgical with that bitch, Jake?!

      • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Even then it’s dumb, but you can always load it if you think you will need it. It shouldn’t be chambered all the time though. Guns are too dangerous to use like that.

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            Most of the ones who aren’t don’t reveal they are gun owners or think about it so much.

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            I accidentally got dragged into a conversation at work with a gun owner who seemed to have it mapped out exactly how they thought a home invasion would play out. In their scenario they’d have the drop on the robbers, who’d never be expecting someone to keep a loaded gun by their bed while sleeping…

            There was so much detail in there that it made me wonder if they actually wanted someone to come into their house so they could have an excuse to kill someone.

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              Oh, yeah. They live for this fantasy. We have an Airstream travel trailer, and there are people in that group that are absolutely certain that someone WILL try to break in sooner or later while they’re camping, and they will be Ready For It.

              I assume they are the same group of people that end up shooting an innocent person that had their car break down at 2 am and just wanted help, or knocked on the door to what they thought was a friend’s house.

              It’s really disturbing how certain they are that this will happen. Too much Fox News, I assume.

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            I own guns. Not because I’m scared of anything, but because I inherited one, and my mom has a farm and shooting clay pigeons is fun. Plus, I have to kill a chicken snake for her every so often.

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        11 people that didn’t read the article. Says he went into surgery. Not dead. Owner is still a dumbfuck who should have their gun privileges taken away.

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          I really dont understand when people say gun privilige. Like owning a gun is something people should aspire towards.

          Guns should be responsibilities, not privilieges.

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            Responsibilities usually come with privileges. If you fail to fulfil your responsibilities, you lose those privileges. I’m not really sure what you’re getting at here because I don’t think we really disagree.

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      Not in US. In US gun owners are never responsible for what happens with their guns. It can be the kid’s fault, the dog’s fault or even fault of the gun itself but it’s never the gun owner’s fault.

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      This was a scene in Plague Dogs that I thought was super unrealistic, a dog steps on a gun, which discharges into a man, and people blame the dog as if he shot the man on purpose. I thought it couldn’t happen in real life.

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    The victim told police that before the incident, he was cleaning his firearm

    getting shot by own gun and cleaning it, these often come together, maybe is safer to keep them dirty

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      Somehow he was cleaning it and it still had rounds to fire or he cleaned and reloaded and left it unsecured so it had rounds to fire. Sounds like sort of person who should own a gun for sure.

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        Not unless you’re really dumb, people accidentally shoot themselves with “unloaded” guns all the time.

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      Nobody is ever actually shot while “cleaning” their gun. Unloading it is step 1 in this procedure for basically every firearm ever made, and that assessment stretches back several hundred years by now.

      This is just a culturally ingrained lame excuse people pathologically fall back on thinking they’re going to save face over capping their own damn selves with an easily avoidable negligent discharge. And everyone who tries it inevitably thinks they’re the first person to think of it, because they’re stupid.

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      If you get shot cleaning your gun you have MAJORLY fucked up.

      Like, you have to try to be that level of stupid and it still happens. People are just incredibly dumb it would seem. I mean, I know we must have a ton of morons in this country in order for Trump to get elected because … Everything.

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    The clown claimed he was “cleaning his shotgun,” while it was fucking loaded. I would give his dog a treat for making attempt to get rid of an idiot gun owner.

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    I mean, I like things that go boom as much as the next human. But how hard is it to; 1, not fucking literally sleep with the thing. And 2; leave it unloaded if you are‽

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      I’m always amused by the stories about loaded guns being confiscated at airports in people’s carry on bags. The one place everyone should know that you cannot take a gun. Inevitably, they say, “I forgot it was in there.”

      Stories like these don’t inspire my belief in safe gun owners. I’m sure they’re out there, but so are a lot of idiot gun owners.