Comment by ada1981
6 years ago
You’ve never heard of a gun going off unintnetionally?
It happens all time time.
People are also accidentally shot all the time.
We even had a VPOTUS who famously shot one of his friends in the face accidentally.
6 years ago
You’ve never heard of a gun going off unintnetionally?
It happens all time time.
People are also accidentally shot all the time.
We even had a VPOTUS who famously shot one of his friends in the face accidentally.
Guns almost never go off unintentionally. Yes, people think the gun is unloaded, or toddlers are playing with the gun, or the person with the gun is being unsafe. But the vast majority of the time, somebody pulled the trigger. They are not accidents.
Since they were "line hunting", pretty much every hunter thought Cheney should have been charged with something. In Canada, he definitely would have been charged with unsafe usage of a firearm.
That’s something of a no true Scotsman argument, if someone did not intentionally fire it’s accidental.
There are ~500 accidental gun deaths in the US per year and vastly more accidental firings.
If you ever take a gun course a lot of effort is placed on getting people to never point a gun at something they are unwilling to shoot because of accidental firings. Trigger safety is similar emphasized because of how much it reduces accidental firings.
No, I'm saying that "unintentionally" is being used in the "accidently" sense when it should be used in the "negligently" sense.
500 accidental gun deaths are almost all negligence and should result in criminal charges. But, in actuality, many are suicides.
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The friend who apologized to the VPOTUS? I’d like to hear other stories where a friend apologizes to another friend who shot them.