Pawnshop robbery fails.

[happyhoix]

In my gun classes, one of the first rules of thumb before shooting is to know your area and what's beyond it.

So at least 2 instances that I know of of people who have been carrying, have been in a position to shoot and did not because they were well trained.

Here is my problem with that - where I live, no one appears to have taken any of these gun training courses, because they keep doing stupid shit with guns.

Like leave them laying around where kids can find them, and accidentally shoot themselves or, more often, a sibling or friend. Or shoot themselves in the hand while cleaning their gun. Or the sheriff''s deputy who shot himself in the arm accidentally. Or leave their gun on their nightstand, have a bad dream, grab the gun and shoot a hole in the floor while half awake.

I like the idea of requiring everyone who owns a gun to take and pass a safety course first. If they're too stupid to pass a safety test, they're too stupid to have a gun.

Of course, this would prevent every red blooded American who wants a gun from owning a gun, if they're too stupid to pass the test, so the NRA would immediately kill that idea.

[djAdvocate]

Dec 5, 2014 12:54:24 GMT -5 @jma23 said:

Dec 2, 2014 20:30:36 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

huh.  yeah, we are quite different.  i learn stuff from people half my age all the time.  and i have found it quite profitable.

I learn stuff from people of all ages, all the time.  I find as time goes by it affects my personal code of conduct less and less.  If you meant profitable as in earning dollars, I've stopped trying to increase my wealth in any significant way.   That part of my life was over 14 1/2 years ago, along with it's headaches.  Not that the working for success part was all bad times though. 

nah.  i meant generally.  but at least we are talking the same language, now.  for the record, i have not put my life in anyone's hands since i was a baby.

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Dec 5, 2014 17:53:20 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Dec 5, 2014 12:54:24 GMT -5 @jma23 said:

I learn stuff from people of all ages, all the time.  I find as time goes by it affects my personal code of conduct less and less.  If you meant profitable as in earning dollars, I've stopped trying to increase my wealth in any significant way.   That part of my life was over 14 1/2 years ago, along with it's headaches.  Not that the working for success part was all bad times though. 

nah.  i meant generally.  but at least we are talking the same language, now.  for the record, i have not put my life in anyone's hands since i was a baby.

Me neither. I've never seen any type of crime committed by a person, not even at a distance. Oh crap, all our gun/defense discussions have been mostly a moot point except for that one in a million (billion?) chance we might be present at a dangerous criminal situation.