5 (idiots) accidental shootings at gunshows yesterday

View · by **minnhawk** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:27 am

Un-bee-leave-able. Timing was also amazingly bad, given the national discussion on guns in our culture.

Accidental shootings at gun shows in North Carolina, Indiana and Ohio left five people injured Saturday, the same day that thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter firearm limits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... ml?hpid=z3

View · by **xd ED** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:30 am

This makes us look bad.

View · by **LePetomane** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:45 am

The body count is still less than an evening in the hood or at Calypso Louie's Million Man March.

View · by **xd ED** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:12 am

LePetomane wrote:The body count is still less than an evening in the hood or at Calypso Louie's Million Man March.

That's a pretty low bar.

View · by **Stoley_XD** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:26 am

Whatever happened to treating a gun as if it was loaded AT ALL TIMES.

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View · by **CraigJS** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:33 am

"You can't fix stupid" (Ron White)
It's idiots like these that just don't get it..

View · by **xd ED** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:41 am

4 rules is too much for some, apparently.

View · by **goett047** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:53 am

It's due the the panic buying and the sudden influx of inexperienced gun show buyers.... Or it could be libs trying to show how dangerous gun shows are. I bet there were more car accidents going to and from all of the shows...

View · by **MNGunGuy** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:02 am

I suspect they were victims of an auto-forwarding slide, all of them.

View · by **Heffay** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:10 am

xd ED wrote:This makes us look bad.

Anyone who has been to a gun show knows nothing there will make us look good.

View · by **goett047** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:11 am

Heffay wrote:
xd ED wrote:This makes us look bad.

Anyone who has been to a gun show knows nothing there will make us look good.

This

View · by **xd ED** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:14 am

Heffay wrote:
xd ED wrote:This makes us look bad.

Anyone who has been to a gun show knows nothing there will make us look good.

I won't go as far as 'nothing', but my enthusiasm wanes with every attendance.
I can't imagine what the very recent ones are like, given the current market.

View · by **xracer390** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:17 am

"And in Ohio, a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend, police said. The gun’s magazine had been removed from the firearm, but one round remained in the chamber, police said."

"accidentally pulled the trigger"

"accidentally"

I hate that word.

View · by **jshuberg** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:54 am

I wonder how many times this kind of thing has happened in the past - idiots who shouldn't own scissors let alone guns having a negligent discharge? I'm guessing the difference is that now every time any gun owner does even the slightest thing wrong, it becomes national news. Still though - idiots!

View · by **rugersol** on Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:52 am

xd ED wrote:4 rules is too much for some, apparently.

Maybe we should go back to 3?!