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Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:44 pm**

Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:31 pm**

Grinning Dragon wrote:Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:34 pm**

Paddy O Fernature wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

At least it was pointed at a wall and she wasn't looking down the barrel....

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:40 pm**

I don't know much about guns and I've never shot one but a 44. Magnum is my favorite. They look so badass especially with the wooden handle.
https://goo.gl/images/DtbBVp

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:45 pm**

Jagellion wrote:I don't know much about guns and I've never shot one but a 44. Magnum is my favorite. They look so badass especially with the wooden handle.
https://goo.gl/images/DtbBVp

Dirty Harry approves.

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:05 pm**

Jagellion wrote:I don't know much about guns and I've never shot one but a 44. Magnum is my favorite. They look so badass especially with the wooden handle.
https://goo.gl/images/DtbBVp

#nickelplatedsissypistol

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:44 pm**

Vassenor wrote:
Jagellion wrote:I don't know much about guns and I've never shot one but a 44. Magnum is my favorite. They look so badass especially with the wooden handle.
https://goo.gl/images/DtbBVp

#nickelplatedsissypistol

I'm sensing an "U.S. Marshals" movie reference.
Although the pistol in the movie was a Taurus PT945.

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:34 pm**

Grinning Dragon wrote:Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

Gee, Dorothy, do you think the Wizard could give her a brain?

Posted: **Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:21 pm**

Telconi wrote:
Len Hyet wrote:I'd buy a used S&W 500 just for the amusement factor

I've never considered hand pain and lugging a massive cinder block of a gun around to be amusing.

That's why I will be prepared for the boar-zombie apocalypse and you will not.

Grinning Dragon wrote:Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

This is why every school in America should teach a firearms safety class. Just like we teach sex ed. A one week or one day or however long your school wants session. Cover the four basic rules. Watch accidental firearms deaths drop like a rock over the next 20 years.

Posted: **Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:26 pm**

Len Hyet wrote:
Telconi wrote:
I've never considered hand pain and lugging a massive cinder block of a gun around to be amusing.

That's why I will be prepared for the boar-zombie apocalypse and you will not.

Grinning Dragon wrote:Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

This is why every school in America should teach a firearms safety class. Just like we teach sex ed. A one week or one day or however long your school wants session. Cover the four basic rules. Watch accidental firearms deaths drop like a rock over the next 20 years.

But if you teach children about guns in school then un-specified bad stuff will happen because guns are bad...

Posted: **Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:40 pm**

Telconi wrote:
Len Hyet wrote:That's why I will be prepared for the boar-zombie apocalypse and you will not.

This is why every school in America should teach a firearms safety class. Just like we teach sex ed. A one week or one day or however long your school wants session. Cover the four basic rules. Watch accidental firearms deaths drop like a rock over the next 20 years.

But if you teach children about guns in school then un-specified bad stuff will happen because guns are bad...

Colorado Springs Schools have a Gun Safety Course

Posted: **Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:19 pm**

Len Hyet wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:Stupid is as stupid does. Read/watch and be amazed at the sheer stupidity of this rocket scientist.
Kid finds loaded gun in Lenox Square dressing room; vacuous mother pulls trigger to see if it's real

This is why every school in America should teach a firearms safety class. Just like we teach sex ed. A one week or one day or however long your school wants session. Cover the four basic rules. Watch accidental firearms deaths drop like a rock over the next 20 years.

If New Jersey can do boating safety courses for 5th graders, there's no reason why they can't do gun safety courses.

Posted: **Mon Aug 28, 2017 11:55 am**

The Two Jerseys wrote:
Len Hyet wrote:This is why every school in America should teach a firearms safety class. Just like we teach sex ed. A one week or one day or however long your school wants session. Cover the four basic rules. Watch accidental firearms deaths drop like a rock over the next 20 years.

If New Jersey can do boating safety courses for 5th graders, there's no reason why they can't do gun safety courses.

'Cuz boats don't kill people.

Posted: **Mon Aug 28, 2017 12:41 pm**

Telconi wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:If New Jersey can do boating safety courses for 5th graders, there's no reason why they can't do gun safety courses.

'Cuz boats don't kill people.

No but pools do. Accidental drownings kill as many children in the US as do guns.

Of course we recommend swimming lessons for all kids. But not gun safety no that would be too far.

Posted: **Mon Aug 28, 2017 3:12 pm**

Telconi wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:If New Jersey can do boating safety courses for 5th graders, there's no reason why they can't do gun safety courses.

'Cuz boats don't kill people.

You sure about that?

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:26 am**

Telconi wrote:
The Two Jerseys wrote:If New Jersey can do boating safety courses for 5th graders, there's no reason why they can't do gun safety courses.

'Cuz boats don't kill people.

You are absolutely right. Boats do not kill people, the people behind the wheel driving or using them improperly are the ones who end up accidentally or purposely harming others.

Just like with firearms.

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:41 am**

Paddy O Fernature wrote:
Telconi wrote:
'Cuz boats don't kill people.

You are absolutely right. Boats do not kill people, the people behind the wheel driving or using them improperly are the ones who end up accidentally or purposely harming others.

Just like with firearms.

Ding, ding, ding, winner, winner chicken dinner!
As such as why there is no such thing as gun-deaths, gun-violence, gun-murders, illegal-gun, etc.

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:50 am**

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Paddy O Fernature wrote:
You are absolutely right. Boats do not kill people, the people behind the wheel driving or using them improperly are the ones who end up accidentally or purposely harming others.

Just like with firearms.

Ding, ding, ding, winner, winner chicken dinner!
As such as why there is no such thing as gun-deaths, gun-violence, gun-murders, illegal-gun, etc.

Right?

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:57 am**

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Paddy O Fernature wrote:
You are absolutely right. Boats do not kill people, the people behind the wheel driving or using them improperly are the ones who end up accidentally or purposely harming others.

Just like with firearms.

Ding, ding, ding, winner, winner chicken dinner!
As such as why there is no such thing as gun-deaths, gun-violence, gun-murders, illegal-gun, etc.

But, but, Mr. Dragon, how are the poor tyrannical grabbers going to oppress you unless they can vilify the very existence of your rights?

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:32 pm**

Telconi wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:Ding, ding, ding, winner, winner chicken dinner!
As such as why there is no such thing as gun-deaths, gun-violence, gun-murders, illegal-gun, etc.

But, but, Mr. Dragon, how are the poor tyrannical grabbers going to oppress you unless they can vilify the very existence of your rights?

Well using emotionally charged made up bullshit seems all they have at the moment.

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:34 pm**

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Telconi wrote:
But, but, Mr. Dragon, how are the poor tyrannical grabbers going to oppress you unless they can vilify the very existence of your rights?

Well using emotionally charged made up bullshit seems all they have at the moment.

Do you feel that same way when you hear something like "knife-violence" or "knife-crime" from a country that restricts gun ownership?

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:37 pm**

Fartsniffage wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:Well using emotionally charged made up bullshit seems all they have at the moment.

Do you feel that same way when you hear something like "knife-violence" or "knife-crime" from a country that restricts gun ownership?

I would make the same face at that as well. It's a fucking stupid phrase and it needs to stop.

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:28 pm**

Grinning Dragon wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:
Do you feel that same way when you hear something like "knife-violence" or "knife-crime" from a country that restricts gun ownership?

I would make the same face at that as well. It's a fucking stupid phrase and it needs to stop.

Why? It's an accurate description of the act?

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:59 pm**

This is a thread for not-political discussion.

So in order to return to that narrative, I have decided I am going to replace my AimPoint Micro H1 on my SBR with an EOTech EXPS3-0 and see which of the two I prefer. I do not like the EOTech's auto-off (although it is probably much less of an issue than I am making it out to be), the brightness adjustment, which again I can just get used to, or its battery life. However, the glass has no distortion at its edges, no tint, and the new EOTechs apparently do not experience any parallax issues (0MOA shift) at 100m, and noticeably less parallax issues closer than that than Trijicons or even AimPoints experience. This might explain why I zeroed my lower-1/3 cowitnessed iron sights by themselves, then zeroed my AP H1 by itself, and when aiming with both, the dot is not actually aligned with the irons: parallax due to lens curvature.

We'll see how the EOTech does. It would also mean every accessory on my rifle uses CR123A batteries, so I guess that might also be considered a pro?

Posted: **Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:01 pm**

Fartsniffage wrote:
Grinning Dragon wrote:
I would make the same face at that as well. It's a fucking stupid phrase and it needs to stop.

Why? It's an accurate description of the act?

Seriously? The coined phrase emotively conveys the blame is placed on the tool instead of the person wielding the tool.
A knife is incapable of being violent, nor can a knife cause crime, but a knife can be used in conjunction to a violent act or in the commission of a crime.
Blaming an object instead of the actor is lazy and dishonest, ergo, it's a fucking stupid phrase and needs to stop.

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