Iowa student dies, accidental discharge in vehicle

[clearconscience]

I'm so sick of these stories. This is so sad and completely preventable if people start turning their brain on when around firearms.

Why was he doing anything with the firearm in the car, Especially when it's loaded?!

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2016/09/21/ui-graduate-student-dies-gunshot-wound/90784616/

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[albin25]

Especially when it was moving...at hwy. speeds!!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Aw krapp! Again!

 

[Flopsweat]

Just awful. What's the first step of disassembling any firearm? Point the gun in a safe direction. Come on people.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I'm sorry this gal died.

Some things are more forgiving of mistakes than others.
A pencil has an eraser.
If you mess up in a game you can re start or play again.
Others are less forgiving.
If you miss the nail with your hammer you might get a new hole in your wall or a sore thumb.
Not paying attention while using the kitchen knife?
Hope you have a Band-Aid handy.
Some things always need to treated with more respect than they sometimes get.
Cars and guns fall into this category.
If you make a mistake with either of those you might just kill someone or yourself.

Take your time and learn from your mistakes and those from others.
Treat every tool you use with the respect it deserves , even those which you use everyday.
Andy

 

[Joe13]

Just awful. What's the first step of disassembling any firearm? Point the gun in a safe direction. Come on people.

Goes to show we need more free training classes... or something to help people who are not seasoned.

I've been muzzle swept a time or two by "experienced" shooters that weren't thinking. They may not have thought anything of it but I was keenly aware and told them so.

^^The primary reason I'm a selfish SOB and refuse to share outdoor shooting areas with anyone I don't personally know, at which point I go into automatic RSO mode (never actually been one at a range, but I know the drill by now).

Just because you take a class and get your permit does not mean you have that locked in your head for life, like a lot of us that have been around guns all our life or had the benifit of a great trainer that drilled those things into our heads.

Just look at all the holes in the roofs at some gunranges. That's a controlled environment and people still have ND's.

How many people still cut themselves with knives? Probably have used knives a large part of their life in the kitchen, but knives are generally more forgiving and a bandaid will fix the issue.

I also see this as an issue with people who carry loaded sometimes and not others - no consistency and all it takes is one person forgetting to give every gun owner a bad name.

I have to clear my CC sometimes and it's pointed at the floorboard when I do but I've had the benifit of a lifetime of people teaching me early on about gun safety and proper techniques for preventing harm to myself or others.


Lol Andy

I was just typing something similar out.

And it was a young lady shot by her brother while trying to show her how to breakdown and clean a gun while she was driving.

 

[Dr_Lou]

Very tragic...

 

[Larrytpdx]

Once again, "Ya give 'em books, and send 'em to school, and all they do is eat the pages!"

 

[Camelfilter]

Simply tragic.

Basic firearms habits were simply disregarded.

 

[rick benjamin]

I also feel sock of these events. BUT,
They were avoidable, not an accident
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE

 

[BDA.45]

Negligence like this really pisses me off.....

 

[Goosebrown]

How damned stupid. I am at a loss for words. Poor girl and poor family. What a loss.

 

[h4344]

Why would you try to disassemble a gun in a moving car? Do it in an environment or setting where it has your full attention and you have complete range of motion.