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[What's Burning?]

A little anecdotal info, yesterday during these gun appreciation day gun shows, five people were accidentally shot.

[Hammer278]

[stonemonkey]

A little anecdotal info, yesterday during these gun appreciation day gun shows, five people were accidentally shot.

I don't get it, 2 of the incidents injuring 4 people involved guns that were already loaded going off when they were being unpacked in a public place and it's just seen as accidental.

How can anyone who is taking a gun to a public place accidentally leave it loaded or forget to check? And whether intentionally left loaded or down to complete stupidity how can the law see it as just an accident?

[LewEngBridewell]

And it all reaches brand new heights of stupidity.

[What's Burning?]

And it all reaches brand new heights of stupidity.

It's tough to beat the video a few posts back for 'new heights of stupidity'

[Jabberwocky]

Maybe we have got it wrong. Maybe yiu should have to pass a gun hangling test to own a gun.

I remember being sat in a class room for 2 weeks in basic training on how to use a gun. Then we get tested at least one a year that we know what we are doing.

[What's Burning?]

it had been a while since we'd had a school shooting, I was starting to be lulled into a false sense of security. another one at a college in Houston TX.

[LewEngBridewell]

it had been a while since we'd had a school shooting, I was starting to be lulled into a false sense of security. another one at a college in Houston TX.

It's starting to become fashionable over there...

[Jabberwocky]

I heard this was some sort of gun fight between more than one person

[What's Burning?]

The popular NRA slogan here in defense of gun rights is "guns don't kill people, people kill people" I guess the NRA would say this little 9 year old girl just killed her instructor, not the modified automatic UZI she was learning to use. Blame her.
[youtube]cfMzK7QwfrU[/youtube]

[darwin dali]

He was a dumb arse in how he instructed her (wrong position), but that's besides the point. An UZI in the hands of a nine-year old - only in America (and some other wacko war-faring countries).

[LRW]

I've not watched that video. Please tell me it doesn't show the actual event?

[darwin dali]

I've not watched that video. Please tell me it doesn't show the actual event?

It stops just short of the girl completely losing control of the UZI due to recoil.

[LRW]

Good. I was about to tell you two off.

Plus I feel this is in the wrong thread. This wasn't a rampage. But a tragedy that has undoubtedly ruined many lives. Especiallyb that little girls.

[darwin dali]

This thread is also about the misguided gun culture (NRA, etc.) here in the US, so it fits just fine.