robocallTeen rapper accidentally kills himself on social media video after pointing gun at his head and pulling trigger
Gradually_AdjustingEver since becoming a parent this kind of tragedy really gets to me. I’m glad I don’t have a gun in the house anymore, at least. Consider doing the same, if you’ve got babies. They can be clever before they’re smart, it’s not their fault they wanted to impress their friends.
SoleInvictusAt the very least, get a trigger lock or firearm safe. We don’t even have kids but I could never live with myself if a relative or neighbor kid hurt themselves or someone else with one of our firearms, so we have a safe.
Trigger locks are laughable, or were when I was researching this. I’ve left my revolver to family back in the states (as this one cannot be made UK compliant), but I’m still getting good use out of the fingerprint safe I got for it.
I do miss shooting sometimes, and it was fun to make and test a new cartridge between 45 and 454 Casull, but that’s all behind me now.
astrskYeah my dad just removed all the firing pins. Worked well.
Good extra layer, wouldn’t use it as a sole safety measure though!
MadlaineAnd check if the lockpickinglawyer already tested said trigger lock.
It’s bit my area of expertise; but the ones he tested where far from safe.
When I was young, my Dad simply didn’t have ammunition in the house. If we went to the range or were going hunting, we’d buy ammo on the way and we’d shoot it all or give away whatever was left over to another shooter.
That’s what it’s like here in Switzerland.
You’re allowed to store guns at home but ammo is heavily restricted.
QuerellerNo, what you say is not correct. You probably think about military service rifles only. But you can buy (and stash a lot of) ammunition as a civilian. The seller only had to make some basic background checks. I think recently, they made it a bit harder and you have also to prove you own the corresponding firearm?
You should teach your kids basic gun safety anyway imo. Because they could go to a friend’s house where there’s a gun.
The only true protection is educating them to not do stupid things.
I plan to, as appropriate. It’ll be less commonplace now we’ve emigrated to the UK.
Chaotic EntropyLiving in the UK, I have never seen an actual firearm outside of specialist police and museums. Nor has that presented any problems. shrug
I wouldn’t say I emigrated for any one reason, but fewer guns was one of the… many.
And before anyone says it, the only person to menace me with a knife has been my partner… and I think she was joking.
menace me with a knife
Regardless, a knife isn’t any risk to innocent people across the street from the intended victim. A gun on the other hand…
How many knives can a disaffected teen carry/throw per minute?
I wouldn’t seek to downplay how much damage a sufficiently motivated individual with a knife can do in a short space of time, but it is certainly orders of magnitude lower than a firearm in most cases.
That’s for her to know :)
I do feel like the media coverage of knife crime is overblown. The violent crime rate here is pretty low, and yet you have to be an adult to buy a seam ripper. Knife sales aren’t the reason for rises in violent crime, inequality is. Hopefully we can begin to address that with a new administration.
I didn’t call her bluff, so who’s to say.
It’s comparatively low, but you take about the level of crime you have I guess, rather than crime you could have. I don’t hold much hope for whatever bizarre Frankenstein’s government is next in charge of the country, but we’ll have to cross that channel when we come to it.
I’ve still got a lot of optimism in politics to unlearn, I know it’s not the done thing around here.
Hell, it’s been years and I still have to resist the urge to respond to “yeah, alright” incorrectly.