At the Doc and someone has a gun!

[her209]

because the rule goes: "never point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot".

The point is guns don't go off accidentally. No finger on trigger = no bang = no imminent chance of being shot

 

[her209]

Why get upset when someone states their intention to strangle you to death? As long as their fingers aren't around your neck, why worry about it?

Exactly! Why worry about it? No fingers around your neck = no imminent chance of being strangled

 

[slag]

She just came out from where they give alergy booster shots with her jacket off and is wearing a hip holster. Guess she's a detective or something although she's only wearing jeans. No one in the office seemed to care.

Great, just great.. So we have this doped up broad(just took meds) who could quite possibly be on her period and not thinking rationally who is carrying a weapon that can easily kill people.

 

[Train]

Why do people get upset when a gun gets pointed at them? As long as the gun holder doesn't have his finger on the trigger, why worry about it?

How did we get from gun being in a holster to being pointed at someone?

Seriously, how dumb are you?

 

[slag]

The point is guns don't go off accidentally. No finger on trigger = no bang = no imminent chance of being shot

It is theoretically possible for a mechanical malfunction to cause a firearm to discharge unintentionally. With modern firearms it is a very low-order probability

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...s_wounded_as_weapons_go_off_accidentally.html

 

[lupi]

Jeans and a hip holster? Nothing else? And you didn't get pics? Topless gun porn ftw... wtf is wrong with you man?!

you should know I don't carry a camera.

 

[her209]

How did we get from gun being in a holster to being pointed at someone?

Seriously, how dumb are you?

Because people have an irrational fear of guns being pointed at them.

What harm has been done to them if the trigger hasn't been pulled? They can just carry on and/or walk away.

 

[exdeath]

Because people have an irrational fear of guns being pointed at them.

When guns are pointed at you by an individual you have every reason to believe THAT PERSON has hostile intentions.

Nobody freaks out in Walmart when a gun behind the counter just happens to be pointed in their direction while just sitting there inanimate as they walk by.

I see guns pointed at me all the time when I'm at gun stores. Either on their racks, on a counter, passing by someone handling a clearly empty checked and open weapon who wasn't pointing it at anybody, etc. 0 fux given.

 

[her209]

When guns are pointed at you by an individual you have every reason to believe THAT PERSON has hostile intentions.

Nobody freaks out in Walmart when a gun behind the counter just happens to be pointed in their direction while just sitting there inanimate as they walk by.

Until they actually shoot you, you can carry on and/or walk away. No physical harm has been done.

 

[exdeath]

Until they actually shoot you, you can carry on and/or walk away. No physical harm has been done.

False.

 

[Train]

Because people have an irrational fear of guns being pointed at them.

What harm has been done to them if the trigger hasn't been pulled? They can just carry on and/or walk away.

You didn't answer the question. Let me type it again:

How did we get from gun being in a holster to being pointed at someone?

 

[phucheneh]

Anyone have stats for how many crimes have been committed by someone open carrying? I'm gonna guess it's an extremely low number.

It's not uncommon to see open carry around here. It's a virtual guarantee that someone has a decent mount of firearms experience and possesses the proper permit (simply a 'carry permit' here). It doesn't hurt that you can also usually note that they are not carrying something cheap, and it is well-retained in a quality holster. I've yet to spot a Hi-point being open carried; nor have I even seen anything in a 'universal' holster, period.

You should be more afraid of someone NOT open-carrying. While the odds of them having a gun are less (...easy to be less than '100%'), they're still far more likely to shoot someone, I would say. Yet no one says 'OMG, he doesn't have a gun! I bet there's Bulgarian CZ knockoff stuck in the front of his pants!'

 

[Patranus]

A gun in public and no one got shot?!?!?!??! *Shocking*!!!!!!

 

[Azraele]

You should have done like lupi and peed you knickers and then run home and curled up on mommies lap.

I'd rather hide under the bed.

 

[Hoober]

Until they actually shoot you, you can carry on and/or walk away. No physical harm has been done.

Don't feed the troll.

 

[phucheneh]

Some of you guys really have a terrible idea of what 'trolling' or 'feeding' said troll is.

 

[Ichinisan]

You should have done like lupi and peed your knickers and then run home and curled up on mommy's lap.

You maked me raff.

 

[pontifex]

You must be new around here, let me welcome you to the forums.

so you're saying you're one of the resident anti-gun wackjobs?