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Edwynn -> RE: Another "successful" carry story (12/31/2014 9:18:00 AM)
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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin
You guys are so worried about the children, why not worry about all the other things that are dangerous to children.
Missed by a mile. No, actually, you missed the point by 1,000 miles.
No one mentioned "child safety" in particular. The issue is about public carry vs. public safety. The bullet could have hit anyone in that Walmart, child or adult.
Some of us are not nearly so worried about the children as we are about fuckwit adults putting the public in harm's way by availing toddlers of loaded weapons in a crowded public place. The fact that it was an inadvertent 'woops!' in this case all the more argues the point against the mentally inept being allowed public carry. But we only require one or two lessons at the firing range for a PC license, no instructions to the child who happens upon the same weapon. No IQ test for the PC parents, just put the bullet somewhere within two yards of the target and here's your license.
The OP was about the irony of some adult buying and carrying a gun in public, "for protection," when this incident points out that there was no protection at all of this particular adult from her own stupidity. And the observant reader sees that this unfortunate incident also points out the fact that there is no protection from such idiots when they public carry that idiocy into a crowded public place, much less any "safety."
Child or adult; stupid is stupid, and dead is dead.
Keep it in your house, don't bring it into public. Simple as that.
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