Gun Nut Kills Two Innocent Neighbors On Their Own Property

[AtheistCrusader]

82. But, how to tell the difference, before hand?

Most of the posters that 'defended' Zimmerman, are long since tombstoned. Personally I urged caution, WRT public conviction early on, because these things have ways of shaking out differently in courtrooms. (But I did specifically call out getting out of his car and following Trayvon as profiling, and highly unwise, and problematic to a claim of self defense, and that Trayvon himself likely had full justification to use force in self defense, given the facts.)

I'm not sure the gungeon is a good place to expect firearms safety training/legal use analysis. It could be, I guess, but similar non-firearms-public-policy issues tend to get crapped on a lot.

Certainly I've worked hard to make sure friends, family, etc, that I know carry/own firearms, are aware of legal issues using force in self defense, as well as safe storage. Two critical issues these days. Almost every tragedy we see in the news these days, involving a firearm boils down to one of two critical failures: 1. An overreaction/non-self-defense use of firearm/deadly force in 'self defense' that was not warranted, or 2. Someone acquired possession of a firearm when they should never have been able to lay hands on it. Anything from a child injuring self or others, up to felons/or otherwise disqualified people going on a rampage with a firearm that was stolen or otherwise acquired from someone who didn't secure the weapon.


I personally support safe storage laws, but in the meantime, PSA's aren't a bad way to go. Hard for the NRA to argue against them, since they kinda sorta support such safety training on the side, through their non-political sport/use wing.