Non-IT News Thread
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Related side note: the whole carrying a gun around in public thing creeps me the heck out.
I live in a super rural area... and it creeps me out too. This coming from a person who would like to get a handgun for target shooting and nothing else.
I grew up way out in the country and being shot at by people on your own property was a regular and very scary thing. I had a teacher shot at in her front yard by people in a car. Another teacher, the most avid pro-gunner you've ever met, and his own hunting partner was so drunk that he thought that he was a flying deer and shot him out of a tree stand!
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@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
I'm guessing the video gave more details, the text doesn't give much at all other than to say he fired once and that he's a felon.
Without more information we can't say why he was detained.
It tells you in the article. He was detained for illegal possession of a handgun.
"criminal possession of a weapon" So it did - though this could be nearly anything the cops want it to be... or it could be nothing at all and charged dropped... we have no clue yet.
We don't know the final situation, but we DO know what he was arrested for.
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@scottalanmiller good grief
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller good grief
Yeah, that teacher probably wished they hadn't been able to save him because he had to come back and face me after forcing the class that I was in to hear lecture after lecture about the safety of hunting instead of teaching the material that he was paid to teach (typing - which he could not do well.)
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Related side note: the whole carrying a gun around in public thing creeps me the heck out.
I live in a super rural area... and it creeps me out too. This coming from a person who would like to get a handgun for target shooting and nothing else.
I grew up way out in the country and being shot at by people on your own property was a regular and very scary thing. I had a teacher shot at in her front yard by people in a car. Another teacher, the most avid pro-gunner you've ever met, and his own hunting partner was so drunk that he thought that he was a flying deer and shot him out of a tree stand!
Until a few years ago we would get a few stories like this a year around here. There was someone the next town over who shot his neighbor's propane tank to "see if it would blow up."
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I remember when a Rochester cop shot his own hand off with a shotgun while hunting.
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What's amazing is that you can shoot yourself and in the next breath hunters tell me they are sure they aren't going to shoot someone else. Uh huh.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I remember when a Rochester cop shot his own hand off with a shotgun while hunting.
Dogs actually kill more hunters than anything else IIRC.
Pro-Tip: don't leave loaded guns in the back seat. Dog will be happy to see you and pull the trigger when jumping around excited to see you.
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@MattSpeller said:
Dogs actually kill more hunters than anything else IIRC.
I'd have guessed exposure or alcohol poisoning.
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@scottalanmiller maybe in America lol
runs off to hide from the flames
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I'm always surprised when I hear about Canadians hunting. It is SUCH an American thing to do. It always shocks me that Canadians would do it. Makes sense, I just don't associate it with being a thing anywhere but the US.
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Do you see American anthems and drink Bud Lite while doing it up there? Does it make you feel connected with the nation to the south?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Do you see American anthems and drink Bud Lite while doing it up there? Does it make you feel connected with the nation to the south?
Honestly it's no different up here. I like to tease y'all something fierce but rednecks are rednecks no matter where you go. American ones tend to be much more heavily armed is all.
Exhibit A:
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@MattSpeller said:
I'm an avid shooter and hunter, I still can't believe people tote them around like it's 1899
If people would open carry, and taught how to properly handle a gun, and how to shoot a moving target... These types of crimes would cause less destruction because people who are trained how and when to use their weapon would choose to do so... But that is in a perfect world.
Open carry will get you in hot water in a lot of states (which is sad to me).
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@dafyre said:
Open carry will get you in hot water in a lot of states (which is sad to me).
Instead of in the slammer? That would be better.
Open carry is a means of silently threatening everyone around you. No matter the legality of it, if you are carrying a lethal weapon around me for no reason, you are choosing to threaten me. It's an aggressive act no matter why people say or think they are doing it. It's a means of sending a message to others.
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Like that guy that terrified people in the Atlanta airport. Was he legally allowed to do that? Yes. Why? Who knows. Putting innocent people at risk just because he wanted to make a political statement about his right to terrify and endanger innocent travels is a horrible thing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
Open carry will get you in hot water in a lot of states (which is sad to me).
Instead of in the slammer? That would be better.
Open carry is a means of silently threatening everyone around you. No matter the legality of it, if you are carrying a lethal weapon around me for no reason, you are choosing to threaten me. It's an aggressive act no matter why people say or think they are doing it. It's a means of sending a message to others.
The same could be said of someone with huge muscles....
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@Dashrender said:
The same could be said of someone with huge muscles....
Except they never made the clear choice to bring those with them. It's who they are. Owning a gun and choosing to bring it with you is completely different. But if you compared it to a sword, then yes.
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And, of course, people are not just allowed to, but need to use muscles when they go out. If you had a gun that you were allowed to discharge for normal day to day tasks and could not be removed from your body, then that would be an analogous situation. But I know of no situation where you can discharge a gun in public as a normal part of your routine. Going to the grocery store, for example.
