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Sancho

(9,069 posts)
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:02 PM May 2013

Take your kids and guns to Disney World!!!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-disney-gun-animal-kingdom-20130529,0,927853.story

"A Walt Disney World park guest found a loaded gun in the seat of a ride at the Animal Kingdom that had fallen out of a man's back pocket on Sunday.

A grandmother handed a Cobra .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol about noon to a park attendant, who immediately contacted security and the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

The owner, Angelo Lista, 44, of Royal Palm Beach claimed the firearm — which had five hollow point bullets inside — fell out of his back pocket during the bumpy Dinosaur ride, according to a Sheriff's Office incident report."

If we had background checks, they should be accompanied by IQ tests...

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Take your kids and guns to Disney World!!! (Original Post) Sancho May 2013 OP
Yep, we are supposed to tolerate this crud so gun cultists can keep their lethal weapons near their Hoyt May 2013 #1
No thank you to Disney World HockeyMom May 2013 #2
I hate when I accidently leave my gatt on an amusement ride! nt rdharma May 2013 #3
A quality holster solves that problem. ManiacJoe May 2013 #14
Come on, how fucking easily could that thing have hurt or killed somebody? Quit the cowboy fantasy Ed Suspicious May 2013 #4
Possible but not likely. ManiacJoe May 2013 #15
In this case the user mokawanis May 2013 #18
My fear was a little kid picking it up. Ed Suspicious May 2013 #19
If you're going to hit the rides, leave your safety device at home. ileus May 2013 #5
"Safety Device" - Is that how you refer to all your lethal weapons? Hoyt May 2013 #12
When euphemism meets oxymoron. LOL Starboard Tack May 2013 #17
Obviously marions ghost May 2013 #6
Who needs rules when people will just do what they want anyway, right? Ed Suspicious May 2013 #7
So go with detectors then, to help enforce the rules marions ghost May 2013 #8
I think we're more on the same page than I first suspected. That sounds like a great idea to me. Ed Suspicious May 2013 #10
OK marions ghost May 2013 #13
Pat downs at the Small World... Sancho May 2013 #9
Sounds like we need backside checks pinboy3niner May 2013 #11
Clearly, the only solution is for Mickey and Donald to pack heat....... marmar May 2013 #16
"If we had background checks, they should be accompanied by IQ tests" etherealtruth May 2013 #20
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Yep, we are supposed to tolerate this crud so gun cultists can keep their lethal weapons near their
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:05 PM
May 2013

"private parts" in public.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
2. No thank you to Disney World
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:09 PM
May 2013

even as a Florida Resident and Educational Staff. I will pass on the state resident discount, and even the FREE Educators Day. Keep both.

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
4. Come on, how fucking easily could that thing have hurt or killed somebody? Quit the cowboy fantasy
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:27 PM
May 2013

shit, Charles Bronson, and leave the guns at home.

mokawanis

(4,440 posts)
18. In this case the user
Wed May 29, 2013, 07:59 PM
May 2013

could have been anyone who found the gun, including a little kid. Sometimes they go off when people drop them, like the woman who dropped her purse and put a round in a bystanders leg at a Starbucks recently.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
6. Obviously
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:36 PM
May 2013

Disney's policies against guns in the park aren't strong enough.

Put it on the list of gun-friendly recreational areas.

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
8. So go with detectors then, to help enforce the rules
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:51 PM
May 2013

--and have consequences for breaking the rules.

It's done in every other locus of society where there is a clear danger to innocent people.

Airports do it. Why should this be any different.

Sancho

(9,069 posts)
9. Pat downs at the Small World...
Wed May 29, 2013, 06:04 PM
May 2013

in Florida, a "carry permit" means nothing...except another fee paid to Tallahassee...

marmar

(77,080 posts)
16. Clearly, the only solution is for Mickey and Donald to pack heat.......
Wed May 29, 2013, 07:45 PM
May 2013

I can see the headline now, "Shootout at Cinderella's Castle"


etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
20. "If we had background checks, they should be accompanied by IQ tests"
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:13 PM
May 2013

To use a phrase used in religion: Amen brother (or sister), amen

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