slowguy wrote:
Yes, people are dumb with their responsibilities. When they're dumb with simple day to day things, thats fine. When they're too dumb or irresponsible to keep track of where their firearms are located, they shouldn't keep firearms.
It's not difficult. It's a weapon. You take it out of your lockbox, take it to the range, shoot, bring it home, clean it, put it away. You don't leave it in a duffle bag for some unspecified amount of time so that you forget it was there and accidentally take it to the airport. If you're carrying on your person, and you're so unaware of it that you forget you're carrying, then you're not paying enough attention, and you're not safe.
If you don't understand this, then I'd suggest you don't take the responsibility of owning and carrying a weapon seriously enough.
No, when people are dumb with simple day to day things it's not fine. Plenty of folks die at the hands of simple day to day things. A white supremacist fuck plowed his car into an innocent protester in Charlottesville. A 6 year old kid figured out how to back his moms car over his kid brother a few months back here in Utah. Lots of very, very bad things happen every year with day to day objects (more than lives lost by assault weapons) and don't even get me started by lives lost by misuse of greasy foods.
No, firearms are not only meant to be taken out of a lockbox to the range and brought home and put back into the lockbox. A statement like this shows a clear misunderstanding of the use and design of firearms as it pertains to most firearm owners and especially CCW holders.
I take the responsibility of owning and carrying a weapon very seriously. Most do. Unfortunately sometimes people do stupid things. Firearm owners included.
Want proof? Resurrect the darwin thread. Stupid people are everywhere.
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