CCW can be taken too far
Crikey sakes - fell out and went off?!? That means 1) it was loaded (who keeps a loaded gun where a child can get it), 2) that it was cocked (again, who keeps a loaded and cocked gun where a child can get it) and 3) umm, how did that happen exactly - most handguns have a full trigger guard to prevent such an situation - and now days, most guns have a pretty good pull rate.
Me thinks the msm is purposely leaving out a tad bit of the story - this sounds like it is probably a memo written by the Brady Bunch to show - just how dangerous those vile, evil guns are.
Bite Me - and God help us for all the stupid people who believe one can simply drop a gun and shoot 3 people (I’d love to have been in that cafeteria).
Bite Me again - Just not possible - so much for truth in the ‘news’papers/reporting.
Read next time - ok injure not shoot 3 people. Still unsure as to exactly what the truth of what happened is.
And OK I’m not a gun nut to the point that I know all guns - so I’ll amend my previous statement that all the guns we have, have a full trigger guard.
Something still stinks or was purposelyleft out of this story - which again reminds me of the Brady Bunch - like all librals - lie, distort and make it up to get to where you want to end. A liberal had to have said - The ends justify the means.
What struck me about the story are the names. “Jarneshia” and “Moneek”. WTF (where the f%$#) do people get these names? Are they supposed to instill Self Worth and Self Esteem by being unique or, as the genius who named the grandmother, youneek? Fugeddabout actually working hard and earning self-esteem. Just flop a moniker with random sounds on the little brat, (but always use the “sh” sound somewhere if at all possible - hey, we have standards ya’ know) and junior will be exceptional! Quite possibly the first kid in his block to cap someone. Kinda makes ya proud, donnit?
Wardmama, I appreciate your saying that your gun knowledge is limited. That’s honest, though I would bet you know the subject better than a lot of people.
California has a set of safety laws that apply to all pistols - or maybe just new ones - that companies market in their state. The drop test and impact tests are so onerous that several companies don’t bother to sell their products there. Plus CA had a bunch of liberals write the law, so every different color a given pistol is offered in (blued, chromed, Parkerized, etc) is considered a different firearm. This makes it very costly for a company to provide enough guns to partake in those tests.
Leaving California’s over exuberant law out of the mix for now, nearly all pistols made in the past 30+ years have some kind of drop safety feature. Revolvers all use transfer bars these days, a design that puts a sliding metal bar between the hammer and the firing pin that only allows the gun to go off if the trigger is pulled. Semi automatics often have two safeties; one on the grip and one on the slide. Many of them have had this design for nearly 100 years now. Some of them even have a third safety in the trigger mechanism. And the trigger pulls in general are heavier than they used to be, specifically to keep little kids and little hands from pulling the trigger.
OTOH, since a well cared for firearm can last just about forever, there are still a large number of pistols out there that might go off it dropped just so. It is my opinion that the “just so” is far smaller than you’d think; the gun has to land at just the right angle on the hammer on a hard enough surface and be dropped from a decent height.
So I have significant doubts about any “it just went off when I dropped it” story. There is more to this story than we are hearing.
But just to be fair and balanced, here is a link to a brand new, very small revolver that has NO transfer bar, no trigger guard, and no safety at all. If the hammer is lowered over a live round and the gun is then dropped or struck on the hammer it WILL go off, and the .22 Magnum cartridge is powerful enough to kill. And it’s such a tiny thing that it would look like a toy to a little kid.
I would not have one in my house if I had children.And yes, a bullet from almost any pistol can shoot right through 3 little kids. 3 adults as well, but you’d need the right kind of bullet and the people lined up just right.
Those names must be from Africa.
"Moneek”? Dear GAWD.
Apparently Mom heard “Monique” but had no idea how to spell it?
Sad—SO sad.
What kind of life is a kid going to have when his momma-name “Moneek”?
DD
Posted by Dedicated_dad
04/22/2011 at 02:57 PM
Looking at that gun - I wouldn’t want it in my house and we don’t have children. That looks like a gun accident waiting to happen.
Of course not being from TX we won’t ever get any of the followup to know exactly how little gangsta got the gun and why a loaded and cocked gun was where he could get his little mitts on it.
You think that Moneek is bad? I know a young man named Jai-del Chifonny Brown. One day, I asked his mother where they got his name from. She told him that Jai comes from the boy on the Tarzan TV show in 60’s ; “del” was added to make the first name sound African; and Chifonny because they liked the commercial for Chiffon Margarine (remember the old commercial “If you think it’s butter, but it’s not. It’s Chiffon).
Jai-del’s mother told my daughter and son-in-law that their son has an unusual name: Ethan Christopher. Ignorance like this embarrasses me!
Posted by DaGeneral
04/24/2011 at 01:33 PM
