Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

[M14 Shooter]

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Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

The Huffington Post
Chris Gentilviso
04/10/2014

A man accidentally shot himself at an NRA event on Tuesday, the (Easton, Pa.) Express-Times reported.

According to the paper, Bethlehem, Pa. police said the injury was non-life threatening, and the man was taken to a local hospital for treatment. His name was not released, police added.

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Of the literally hundeds of thousands, if not millions, of people that have attended an NRA event that, in some way, directly involves fireams, this one person who had an accident is supposed to mean sometbing?

 

[Indofred]

It was a accident, it's not like everyone started shooting at each other after that.

It proves idiots can, and do, buy guns.

 

[Stephanie]

OMG!!!!!!!!

it's the end of the world or something...guvernment better confiscate all guns...

frikken cops have accidently shot themselves, what is the point of this thread?

 

[westwall]

I saw a guy accidently cut his finger at a knife show

I don't think I've ever NOT seen someone cut their finger at a knife show.

 

[westwall]

It was a accident, it's not like everyone started shooting at each other after that.

It proves idiots can, and do, buy guns.

Just like any of a whole host of things that can hurt you if you don't pay attention.

 

[M14 Shooter]

It was a accident, it's not like everyone started shooting at each other after that.

It proves idiots can, and do, buy guns.

Having an accident means you are an idiot?

 

[westwall]

Despite all precautions taken, police training is a human activity and it's prone to error and injury.

Correct. It's called "being human".

Yep! and-----and every time a human shoots somebody, including themselves with a gun two things have to be present
A) a human
B) a gun

The name of the guy that shot himself hasn't been released (embarrassed?) but I wonder what his qualifications for carrying a weapon at a police convention was/is, is he mentally competent and-----and was his weapon registered and-----and is he among those well trained police officers that only hit their target about 30% of the time or-----or worse, when the well trained police officer is in a firefight they only hit their target about 18% of the time.
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Aaaaaaand people who crash cars have to have two elements as well, the driver and the car.

A gun is a tool. It's no better or worse than the person using it, but, when a cost-benefit analysis is run, guns help far, far more than they hurt.

Let's put it in a way even a progressive can understand (but will still ignore) there are currently 300,000,000+guns in the hands of civilians in the US. They kill around 30,000 per year in a country of 330,000,000 people. The majority of those killed are bad guys killing bad guys. Add in the justifiable homicides by police and citizens (who kill twice as many bad guys as the police do), the accidents and the suicides and you are well below 1% of guns being used to do harm.

There are 800,000 doctors in the US. Every year they kill 120,000 people (last estimate by the AMA) do to misdiagnosis, malpractice, faulty drug prescriptions and just plain incompetence.

So you are FAR, FAR more likely to die at the hands of a doctor than a gun. But, just like guns, doctors do more good than harm so we keep them around.

 

[westwall]

It was a accident, it's not like everyone started shooting at each other after that.

It proves idiots can, and do, buy guns.

Having an accident means you are an idiot?

If he had his finger on the trigger, than yeah, he was an idiot.

 

[Star]

Correct. It's called "being human".

Yep! and-----and every time a human shoots somebody, including themselves with a gun two things have to be present
A) a human
B) a gun

The name of the guy that shot himself hasn't been released (embarrassed?) but I wonder what his qualifications for carrying a weapon at a police convention was/is, is he mentally competent and-----and was his weapon registered and-----and is he among those well trained police officers that only hit their target about 30% of the time or-----or worse, when the well trained police officer is in a firefight they only hit their target about 18% of the time.
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Aaaaaaand people who crash cars have to have two elements as well, the driver and the car.

A gun is a tool. It's no better or worse than the person using it, but, when a cost-benefit analysis is run, guns help far, far more than they hurt.

Let's put it in a way even a progressive can understand (but will still ignore) there are currently 300,000,000+guns in the hands of civilians in the US. They kill around 30,000 per year in a country of 330,000,000 people. The majority of those killed are bad guys killing bad guys. Add in the justifiable homicides by police and citizens (who kill twice as many bad guys as the police do), the accidents and the suicides and you are well below 1% of guns being used to do harm.

There are 800,000 doctors in the US. Every year they kill 120,000 people (last estimate by the AMA) do to misdiagnosis, malpractice, faulty drug prescriptions and just plain incompetence.

So you are FAR, FAR more likely to die at the hands of a doctor than a gun. But, just like guns, doctors do more good than harm so we keep them around.

Seems like an apples to oranges comparison to me but-----but are we to understand that since you are an advocate of no gun regulations, to be consistent - are you now saying that we shouldn't regulate doctors so they can kill more of us too?
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[westwall]

Yep! and-----and every time a human shoots somebody, including themselves with a gun two things have to be present
A) a human
B) a gun

The name of the guy that shot himself hasn't been released (embarrassed?) but I wonder what his qualifications for carrying a weapon at a police convention was/is, is he mentally competent and-----and was his weapon registered and-----and is he among those well trained police officers that only hit their target about 30% of the time or-----or worse, when the well trained police officer is in a firefight they only hit their target about 18% of the time.
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Aaaaaaand people who crash cars have to have two elements as well, the driver and the car.

A gun is a tool. It's no better or worse than the person using it, but, when a cost-benefit analysis is run, guns help far, far more than they hurt.

Let's put it in a way even a progressive can understand (but will still ignore) there are currently 300,000,000+guns in the hands of civilians in the US. They kill around 30,000 per year in a country of 330,000,000 people. The majority of those killed are bad guys killing bad guys. Add in the justifiable homicides by police and citizens (who kill twice as many bad guys as the police do), the accidents and the suicides and you are well below 1% of guns being used to do harm.

There are 800,000 doctors in the US. Every year they kill 120,000 people (last estimate by the AMA) do to misdiagnosis, malpractice, faulty drug prescriptions and just plain incompetence.

So you are FAR, FAR more likely to die at the hands of a doctor than a gun. But, just like guns, doctors do more good than harm so we keep them around.

Seems like an apples to oranges comparison to me but-----but are we to understand that since you are an advocate of no gun regulations, to be consistent - are you now saying that we shouldn't regulate doctors so they can kill more of us too?
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I am certainly not in favor of "gun regulation" but I am in favor of people regulation. Convicted felons can't have them, the insane can't have them. I would even have controls placed on people who have more than one DUI. If they're not responsible enough to not drive when drunk then they are probably not responsible to have guns either.

But gun regulation? Hell no. It has only been shown to prevent people from defending themselves. Oh yeah, it's also good for progressives to get rid of those they don't like. Over 60 million by the last count.

 

[Noomi]

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Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

The Huffington Post
Chris Gentilviso
04/10/2014

A man accidentally shot himself at an NRA event on Tuesday, the (Easton, Pa.) Express-Times reported.

According to the paper, Bethlehem, Pa. police said the injury was non-life threatening, and the man was taken to a local hospital for treatment. His name was not released, police added.

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Yet another responsible gun owner...

 

[Indofred]

It was a accident, it's not like everyone started shooting at each other after that.

It proves idiots can, and do, buy guns.

Having an accident means you are an idiot?

With a gun, yes.
I've been handling weapons for a good many years so I'm more than aware, you have to do something stupid to have an accident with a gun (on a range or anywhere else, other than combat).
The latter introduces a lot of potential for an accident as conditions are far less than perfect, but to have a mishap at a gun show MUST involve stupidity.
The first thing you do when you pick up a weapon is check if the thing is loaded.
If so, you clear the damned thing first.

No, this involves an idiot that should be nowhere near a gun.
No excuses.

 

[hangover]

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

Poetic justice.

 

[Yurt]

AGAIN??

What's with these gun nutters who keep shooting themselves? Seriously, this isn't all that hard to understand. Why can't the nutters take a gun safety class and learn the basics that I learned as a pre-teenager?

Very funny videos of "pros" and their constant accidents on You Tube if interested.

the event was hosted by the police dept....what makes you think this guy is a "gun nutter"?

cite specific facts or else you will simply prove to all that you're really the nutter...

 

[Tank]

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

Poetic justice.

What's the injustice?

 

[R.C. Christian]

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Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

The Huffington Post
Chris Gentilviso
04/10/2014

A man accidentally shot himself at an NRA event on Tuesday, the (Easton, Pa.) Express-Times reported.

According to the paper, Bethlehem, Pa. police said the injury was non-life threatening, and the man was taken to a local hospital for treatment. His name was not released, police added.

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Yes, that's right maggot. Show your hate punk.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At NRA Event

Poetic justice.

What's the injustice?

The injustice is that we haven't had the opportunity to corral the people who get off on this sort of thing into a concentration camp.