Legal gun owners sure have been busy lately

[iemanja]

The latest is one who shot at a couple of cheerleaders.

At a Tuesday night vigil shared to Instagram Live, Roth said she and three other cheerleaders with Woodlands Elite Cheer Co. had just completed their Monday night practice when they arrived at the H-E-B parking lot, which their carpool used. When Roth got into a car she thought was a friend’s, she realized that a man was in the passenger seat and quickly got out, she said. After Roth got into her friend’s car, she said, she saw Rodriguez approach and rolled down her window to apologize.

But what unfolded would echo what happened last week to Ralph Yarl in Kansas City, Mo., and Kaylin Gillis in Upstate New York.

“He pulled out a gun, and then he just started shooting at all of us,” Roth said, according to KHOU, an CBS affiliate in Houston. She added, “Payton opens the door, and she starts throwing up blood.”

Two other cheerleaders, identified by Woodlands Elite Cheer on Facebook as Keyona and Genesis, were also involved but not injured.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/19/texas-shooting-cheerleaders-wrong-car/

All these people being killed or wounded for being in the wrong place and the wrong time wouldn't happen if every asshole in America didn't have a gun.

[sanatanadharma]

1. "Legal gun owner shoots (kills) ..." Make it a meme

Every time one of these stories occurs (too frequently), we have opportunity to highlight the "Legal owner" angle.

Legal owner shoots innocent
Legal owner kills innocent
Legal owner mass kills
Gun used in murder was stolen from "legal owner"

[Kaleva]

2. Guns are dangerous. Ask Baldwin

Way too many supposedly responsible adults are flippant about handling them.

[GenXer47]

3. I've never met a responsibile gun owner

Gun owners don't seem to understand the unique property of guns that demands a zero tolerance.
You can't bring back the dead.
There has never been justice for the victims. Corpses don't enjoy justice.
So this needs to be a zero-tolerance situation. Nobody gets to play with guns until we go 10 years without a single death or injury from guns.
That's what responsibility would look like.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. And guns turn all attempted suicides into completed ones.

[iemanja]

6. the great majority

but not all. People do miss.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

8. I've known a few.

My ex FIL was one of them. He had guns from when he was into hunting and camping. When he wasn't actively using them, he kept them locked in a cabinet, unloaded. When my niece and nephew lived with him, he even separated the ammo to his regular wall safe in the closet.

My grandfather kept his shotgun so well hidden that we kids never could find it, no matter how much we explored the house. But he could grab it when he needed it, even in a hurry. Turned out to be a hidden compartment in the attic over a hall closet. It was the only closet in the house that my grandmother kept organized and the floor scrupulously clean and free of clutter. All her other junk storage closets were stuffed floor to ceiling and so unorganized that they were a fire hazard.

Not that one.

Now I know why.

[Silent Type]

5. We've hit point where even decent people will start arming up to protect themselves. That's a shame.

[gratuitous]

7. When the only tool you're willing to use is a firearm

Every problem looks like a target.