No you were saying she was responsible, right up until she "had an accident". No she wasn't, she acted with complete disregard to any gun safety rules before that occurred. The gun should never have been in her hand, and it never should have been pointed at another human being unless she intended to shoot them.

It has nothing to do with gun control to me, to me its about proper handling of a firearm.

No, at no point during these events was she a responsible gun owner. But that doesn't fit your political finger pointing...

I just keep visualizing the scene from the 2nd season of Orphan Black. You know what I mean. (no spoilers beyond that hint)

well if you know what you're doing and know how to properly store, clean, and handle them there is virtually no risk at all. does having a gas oven in your house pose a risk? only if you dont know how to use it.. it comes down to user error, guns dont just shoot themselves. i feel like people who are uneducated…

Anyone can copy, paste and bold sections of text. Give me a link to the article or research paper. Correlation does not imply causation. It is not a fact that guns make homes less safe. If that were the case I would probably be dead many times over. As Harry Waters might say, a gun is an inanimate fucking object.…

Yet cars kill more people per year. They both need to be regulated. They both need to be kept out of the hands of those not responsible enough to use them.

And there's the thing. When someone drives drunk and kills someone, do we blame the car or the booze he drank? No, we blame the person. But when someone dies because of a gun it's always "Fuck guns" "Outlaw guns". If you are using the gun properly (which should be regulated) then you are to blame.

In SC for my CWP, there is a shooting component to the test. You have to hit a target with a certain degree of accuracy, from a stand still and drawing from a holster. And you have to fire at a certain speed, etc.

exactly. You don't point a loaded gun anywhere but at the ground unless you're intending to shoot something or someone.

Yeah, this was wonton negligence. Muzzle control people, muzzle control. First thing I learned when I was in firearm hunting class as a kid.

Shooting yourself while waving around a LOADED GUN with your finger on the trigger is no more an accident than getting eaten by a lion after running up to it dressed in Gaga's meat dress. Total Darwin award.

I'm all for everything you suggested except for the waiting period. "Making an informed decision and sleeping on it" doesn't protect me much when I'm getting stalked today.

Most guns have a safety yes. But this person made a series of mistakes ... the firearm should not be loaded unless you intend on firing, the safety should have been on, the gun should probably have been in a case for transport (depending on the laws of the area), and and and. This person was incredibly cavalier with…

There is no "accidentally" with guns. I mean, yeah sure sometimes, because accidents DO happen, but as far as a gun going off without someone actively pulling the trigger? That's pretty goddamned rare. More often than not, it's some idiot who thought it was unloaded or thought the safety was on or thought they…

She was waving around a loaded firearm.

This was as accidental as unbuckling your seat belt, taking your hands off the wheel, pointing your car towards a cliff, setting the cruise control to 85mph, and saying, "Woo! Lookie me!"

I don't support gun control, but it also wan't an accident. She either had her finger on the trigger during the accident or she tried to catch it when it fell during the accident. She was a moron who died from her own negligence.

Sympathy is hard coming for those that treat their firearms like a fucking toy. There are no winners in this scenario.

I mean, given how protesters in Thailand have used the movie, the motivations of the characters doesn't seem as fictional or contrived though.