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For The Sixth Time In One Week, Man Shot At Gun Show
Gun activists designated last Saturday Gun Appreciation Day in an attempt to highlight their opposition to gun safety laws. The PR stunt proved to be more of an embarrassment, however, when 5 people were shot at 3 different gun shows on Gun Appreciation Day. On Friday afternoon, an Iowa gun dealer closed out the week by becoming the sixth person shot at a gun show. The man claims he was showing off a .25 caliber pistol he thought was unloaded when he slid the action of the gun. The gun was not unloaded, and a bullet went through his left palm.
After this incident, police found a second loaded weapon on the wounded gun dealers table.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/26/1500431/for-the-sixth-time-in-one-week-man-shot-at-gun-show/
Makes a person wonder how many of these accidents were happening every week before the media started to pay attention.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)grandchildren if they keep accidentally setting off guns.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)WARNING! Do not confuse the Benny Hill theme with the dreaded Benny Hinn theme. Brain damage could ensue:
El Shaman
(583 posts)No snakes!!!?????
longship
(40,416 posts)I feel so sorry for my omission. Too bad Steve Irwin is no longer around. Surely he'd say, "Crikey!"
I will try to do better next time.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)Even Vendors are eligible to win.
reACTIONary
(5,786 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,299 posts)I mean, getting shot once ... but six times ?
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Doesn't this guy learn? Keeps gettin' shot at gun shows, might want to stop goin' to the dang things!
Darwin must be eating a pork sandwich right now!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)maybe he should stop going
samsingh
(17,601 posts)what should be done by these self-described defenders of the 2nd amendment?
El Shaman
(583 posts)Brazil with their 'confederate' ex-patriots from the 'great' civil war!!!
reACTIONary
(5,786 posts)...and all I got was this bullet hole!
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)who deserves to lose his FFL.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts). . . they are bad about jumping off the table and shooting the first person they see!!
Crunchy Frog
(26,647 posts)k2qb3
(374 posts)buying up every gun in sight, many of them first time gun buyers, it's not so surprising there's been an increase in negligent discharges lately.
It's unfortunate, but a natural consequence of the ban panic.
I had to show a neighbor how to operate his new rifle safely new years weekend, he didn't even know where the safety was.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)This was the dealer...who should know better.
Driver's ed. was required when I got my class G license. I had to know the car's controls and demonstrate correct vehicle operation to the satisfaction of an examiner (two separate tests), in addition to writing a test on the rules governing its use.
But you can apparently buy a firearm without having to know about the safety or how to use the weapon properly...
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Seems like it began when President Clinton took office and hasn't stopped or even slowed down even when a Republican was pResident for eight years......How long does it go on before someone asks the simple question, why haven't they started taking our guns yet?
Fear is so ingrained in the "Home of the Brave" that common sense has long vacated the premise.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"It's unfortunate, but a natural consequence of the ban panic..."
Much as 20 dead six year old school children are an "unfortunate, but a natural consequence" of the 2nd Amendment as is.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)that someone with a gun was not there to stop the shooting of innocent bystanders!"
Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)Heimer
(63 posts)I'm very pro-gun. However, I'm not blind enough to not see the blatant disregard for safety that is rampant among so many gun owners. So many tragedies due to simple stupidity..
Education and safety needs to be mandated somehow. I'm all for the 2A, but the "well-regulated" part really needs to be stepped up by the gov.
--> Proud American gun owner with thousands and thousands of rounds fired(likely 20k+) and never a ND or AD.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Are common. I transported a cop to the ER after he blew his pinky with a cute .25 caliber. He was playing with it (first mistake) and he believed it was unloaded (second mistake).
No media ever reported that. Like most shootings around the word none calls the media.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Which actually is a good thing since as I had said before it was reported last week, these incidents aren't all that uncommon.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I posted the same, post 22
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)...
Adam-Bomb
(90 posts)You couldn't drag me to a gun show with a log chain, especially with nuts
like these guys running around.
Used to go to them back in the day when I was buying .30-06 ammo and
8-round enbloc clips for my old M-1 Garand, but no more.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)prohibit loaded guns; NRA meetings do not allow guns; gun stores prohibit loaded guns; etc. Guess they know something gun culture won't admit.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)when someone shows up in a jc penny with an assault rifle and sidearm and everybody is supposed to just *trust* him (always a him)?
fuck that.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Robb
(39,665 posts)About as complicated as "because that's where the money is."
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)When less than three people get shot, it's considered a dull affair.
Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I am sure that UK DUers, for example, are extremely jealous that they don't have the opportunity to visit these fascinating, fun "gun shows".
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)a gun show exhibitor or attendee. Just look for the bullet hole scars.
triplepoint
(431 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 30, 2013, 08:41 PM - Edit history (3)
and take out more of the gun nuts. They never learn, and we're plum outta Darwin Awards to give out to them nowadaze. STILL, it's the gesture that really counts with me. I appreciate every gun show "boo boo" that I read about. Keep-em coming!
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sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)claim to be the experts?
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)But damn 6 times in a week!
What? Six different people? Nevermind.
demwing
(16,916 posts)which is weird, because you'd think he learn to duck after the first few times...
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Otherwise, someone could have been hurt.
samsingh
(17,601 posts)for shame on the sponsors who should have made sure there were guns shooting at other guns at the first sign of trouble