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In reply to the discussion: The grocery store, the gun, and my free speech rights [View all]Jenoch
(7,720 posts)If you are going to be afraid of something, be afraid of something that might actually happen.
There was a recent gun accident in my city. A 23 year old was showing off his gun to a group of young men. The gun owner left the magazine in his car. He thought the gun was unloaded. He said he tried to 'clear' the gun by pulling the trigger. It went off and killed a 16 year old in the group. If the gun owner had taken a gun safety course he would have treated the gun as loaded. He also would have know that taking out the magazine does not unload a semi-auto firearm. If the group surrounding him had taken a gun safety course they would have known enough to ask the gun owner if the gun was unloaded and to show them it was unloaded. If they saw the gun owner handling the gun in an unsafe manner, they would have corrected him. They would have told him to point the gun in a safe direction. There are all kinds of reasons to have a working knowledge of guns and gun safety and there is NO reason to oppose such knowledge.
You have your right to your opinion of CCW. The law disagrees with you in all 50 states.