Guns are always safe when used by trained individuals

People die in car accidents, maybe we should ban cars, too.

The first thing they told me when I joined the police department:

Guns are for ONE thing: killing things.

duh...apples&oranges, STUPID wrote:

The first thing they told me when I joined the police department:

Guns are for ONE thing: killing things.

What about shooting locks off doors? You see cops doing that a lot, in the movies and such.

A gun is a tool intended for killing. A car is not.

hungry gnome wrote:

A gun is a tool intended for killing. A car is not.

And yet people end up just as dead from a car crash as from a shooting.

Curis Enis wrote:

duh...apples&oranges, STUPID wrote:

The first thing they told me when I joined the police department:

Guns are for ONE thing: killing things.

What about shooting locks off doors? You see cops doing that a lot, in the movies and such.

that's what keys & lockpicks are for.

try shooting the lock off a door and not damaging anything with the ricochet or scaring the shit out of everybody in earshot.

saw it in the movies...psh...movies cops aren't real cops.

duh...apples&oranges, STUPID wrote:

The first thing they told me when I joined the police department:

Guns are for ONE thing: killing things.

They are also good for keeping the King of England out of your face.

But seriously, the fault here lies with an officer who I guess fired into a lake, a no-no they teach you in any basic firearm safety course. The gun didn't do anything, a trained individual made a mistake, it happens.

Dan Onymous wrote:

hungry gnome wrote:

A gun is a tool intended for killing. A car is not.

And yet people end up just as dead from a car crash as from a shooting.

I hope you´re trying to be funny, otherwise you have a 2-digit IQ (at most).

Cops need physics lessons out there is Nosesnot Oklahoma. Shooting up into a tree means something comes down from the sky.. Very poor choice by cop to fire without knowing where the slug will go. ASPCA not PD for Snakes on a Tree. No threat to life going on just an upset homeowner.A really poor choice and if the cop was guided by the homeowners request to shoot it he should go back into training.

There are snakes in trees in Oklahoma?

Moe wrote:

duh...apples&oranges, STUPID wrote:

The first thing they told me when I joined the police department:

Guns are for ONE thing: killing things.

They are also good for keeping the King of England out of your face.

But seriously, the fault here lies with an officer who I guess fired into a lake, a no-no they teach you in any basic firearm safety course. The gun didn't do anything, a trained individual made a mistake, it happens.

So what you are saying is that even when used by a trained individual, that guns are not necessarily safe.

Why do you crazy gun zealots keep preaching that guns are not dangerous? You have people thinking they can do stupid things with them like shoot it into a lake.

Zeke: Can I shoot that trout in that thar big pond?

Luke: Sure Zeke! We all know that guns ain't dangerous unless stupid people use them.

Zeke: Ha ha, Luke. We ain't stupid!

Luke: That's right. Go ahead and fire! That fish is a goner!

Dan Onymous wrote:

hungry gnome wrote:

A gun is a tool intended for killing. A car is not.

And yet people end up just as dead from a car crash as from a shooting.

I'd wager a bet that far more people have cars than guns.

Guns are fine, it's the ammo we have to get rid of.

mytwocents wrote:

I'd wager a bet that far more people have cars than guns.

Roughly one in four adults owns a firearm and there are enough firearms to arm every adult in the United States (as of the mid 90s). There are about 250 million cars in the U.S., so there are roughly 25% more cars than guns. However, you are more likely to be killed by a car than by a gun.

andy griffith wrote:

People die in car accidents, maybe we should ban cars, too.

Now you're talkin' That would probably eliminate/reduce alot of other problems, obesity, pollution, noise, dependence on foreign oil, the war in Iraq, etc, etc, etc.

If you bedwetting pansies don't want a gun, don't buy one.

Don't try to take mine away. I shoot USPSA matches weekly. 30 or 40 men and women, running around and shooting at steel targets. There has NEVER been a person shot at a USPSA match.

Stupidity is the problem. That cop was stupid for deciding it was a good idea to shoot a snake out of a tree.

And you bliss ninnies who think we can take all the guns away, make them illegal, and criminals won't have them.... Take a look at cocaine and heroin. There is tons of it coming in from South America. Ban guns and they will be available on the black market for US criminals in a few weeks.

'...the right to keep and bear (nuclear) arms shall not be infringed.'

When nuclear weapons are outlawed, only the outlaws will have nuclear weapons!