It is people like that who give gun-owners everywhere a bad name.

[rbeau30]

he thought I was 'taking safety too seriously

I can never take my life too seriously.

I think that the lack of firearm safety in youth, and the practice of firearm safety while supervised by competent parents/guardians, etc is a big issue.


I was shooting competition at age 11 with structured rules and ranges. Safety was ENGRAINED in me. There was no there was no other way to handle a firearm without observing core values that the rules of the ranges and my grandfather taught me.

[ZERO THEORY]

I can never take my life too seriously.

Exactly. We exchanged a short volley of deliberate words, although the conversation stopped at the non-verbal cue that I put forth which was essentially that if/when he did it again, he would get punched. It's not a joke or a passe matter to me, nor should it be to anyone else. Potentially wounding or killing someone in the process of an 'I told you so' moment isn't something you can just pass over.

[osok-308]

I can never take my life too seriously.

I think that the lack of firearm safety in youth, and the practice of firearm safety while supervised by competent parents/guardians, etc is a big issue.


I was shooting competition at age 11 with structured rules and ranges. Safety was ENGRAINED in me. There was no there was no other way to handle a firearm without observing core values that the rules of the ranges and my grandfather taught me.

^^^ This. There is also a side note here. I actually have won people, who were terrified of guns, over through my safe handling of firearms. I explain every rule all the time. My father-in-law asked me if I could check out an old rifle of his. While doing so, his daughter got very uneasy she explained to me that she knew a kid who shot himself with his dad's "unloaded" gun. I began to explain to her one of the four cardinal rules to guns: Treat every gun as in it were loaded. She began to see that the muzzle was pointed in a safe direction, that my finger was off the trigger. I took the bolt out even. After a few minutes of seeing me handle the rifle, she began to relax and even ask me a little bit about guns.

Any time I go to a gun store I feel like I see people breaking the firearm rules, it's not funny, it's upsetting. I'm surprised I don't see more places where the firearm safety rules are plastered on the wall somewhere.