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This is exactly what the anti-gunners want to see, irresponsible gun owners hurting themselves or other people by accident.
I don't have anything special to share, just a story of what happened recently.
God, I facepalmed so hard, I think I recessed my nose... I don't know how many times I said, "DUDE I TOLD YOU TO WATCH YOUR bubblegumING FINGER AND DON'T bubblegum WITH THE TRIGGER UNLESS IT IS CLEAR!" But I didn't want to rub in the fact that he could have killed someone or himself too hard since the man was already down.
My buddy said he trained with rifles in the military, so I assumed he at least knew about gun safety. He found out I was a gun maniac, so he asked what I normally carried. The man ended up buying a MP SHIELD and was really proud of it, bought all these accessories and stuff for it the first week. He was short on funds so I gave him a box of hollow points, he didn't know what hollow points were, which worried me a bit, so I explained the difference between FMJ and HP. Then I was like, "so you know how to use that thing safely right? Watch your finger, check to make sure it is clear, and blah blah blah?" And he said yes, so I felt pretty good about it.
Fast forward to this week, and he shot his TV while playing with that new pistol... drunk. Was cycling rounds through the gun and forgot one was still in the chamber. The classic rack then release mag... Good news is, he was going to buy FMJs but ended up using my hollow points, and they did their job. It went through the TV and stopped in the walls of his apartment. But man, he was so close to killing someone on the other side of that wall. I feel like crawling into a hole just thinking about it, shooting an attacker is different, but to kill an innocent person who did nothing wrong. That hits hard.
PLEASE please please, for the new gun owners. If you haven't developed good habits or a paranoid fear and respect for the power in your hands, don't play with a loaded gun. Or at least, double, triple check your gun before you play with it. I mean, I do all the time too that bubblegum is fun! But the moment you set it down and come back to it, let your paranoia run free and check it again.
I don't know what to do for my friend, I keep repeating myself over and over but I don't know if it sinked in or not. I am just hoping this will scare him straight! And thank the Lord no one got hurt. This story could have had many different outcomes and they all would have been very bad.
I don't have anything special to share, just a story of what happened recently.
God, I facepalmed so hard, I think I recessed my nose... I don't know how many times I said, "DUDE I TOLD YOU TO WATCH YOUR bubblegumING FINGER AND DON'T bubblegum WITH THE TRIGGER UNLESS IT IS CLEAR!" But I didn't want to rub in the fact that he could have killed someone or himself too hard since the man was already down.
My buddy said he trained with rifles in the military, so I assumed he at least knew about gun safety. He found out I was a gun maniac, so he asked what I normally carried. The man ended up buying a MP SHIELD and was really proud of it, bought all these accessories and stuff for it the first week. He was short on funds so I gave him a box of hollow points, he didn't know what hollow points were, which worried me a bit, so I explained the difference between FMJ and HP. Then I was like, "so you know how to use that thing safely right? Watch your finger, check to make sure it is clear, and blah blah blah?" And he said yes, so I felt pretty good about it.
Fast forward to this week, and he shot his TV while playing with that new pistol... drunk. Was cycling rounds through the gun and forgot one was still in the chamber. The classic rack then release mag... Good news is, he was going to buy FMJs but ended up using my hollow points, and they did their job. It went through the TV and stopped in the walls of his apartment. But man, he was so close to killing someone on the other side of that wall. I feel like crawling into a hole just thinking about it, shooting an attacker is different, but to kill an innocent person who did nothing wrong. That hits hard.
PLEASE please please, for the new gun owners. If you haven't developed good habits or a paranoid fear and respect for the power in your hands, don't play with a loaded gun. Or at least, double, triple check your gun before you play with it. I mean, I do all the time too that bubblegum is fun! But the moment you set it down and come back to it, let your paranoia run free and check it again.
I don't know what to do for my friend, I keep repeating myself over and over but I don't know if it sinked in or not. I am just hoping this will scare him straight! And thank the Lord no one got hurt. This story could have had many different outcomes and they all would have been very bad.
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