Sunday, November 1, 2015

Yes, sometimes it IS the gun that kills people

There were two separate incidents last week, one in a doctor's waiting room in Texas and one in an Alabama supermarket, where a gun actually shot people.  In each of these unrelated cases, the gun owner had a concealed carry permit and the gun went off accidentally when it was dropped by the owner.

In Texas, a woman had a handgun in her purse, which she dropped onto the reception desk counter.   The gun went off, a bullet went through a wall and hit a patient in the next door examining room.  In Alabama, two men were shopping.   The one carrying the gun dropped it, and it went off somehow hitting both men.

Nobody was seriously injured in either case.   But it does refute the simplistic NRA retort that "Guns don't kill people, people do."   They're trying to say that guns themselves are not dangerous to have around.   That just is not true.   The only guns safe to have around are unloaded guns -- with no ammunition anywhere nearby.    Add to these stories the countless ones where an innocent child finds a loaded gun, plays with it, and accidentally shoots another child.

Ralph

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