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Local Gun store owner shoots employee
mogley98
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WTH if it had been a BB gun? I don't get this at all, makes no sense tragic and provides more ammo to the anti's.
Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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We pause now to return to the "Condemn Eric Baldwin" thread...
Alec. Don
Thanks, I KNEW the Eric didn't sound right. It's barely 6 a.m. here...
Damn near time for cocktails!
Wow
Very sad. And a very , very stupid person. Most shop owners I’ve ever met are for the most part knowledgeable in their craft. Some should not be allowed to own a firearm nonetheless handle them like in this case.
There HAS to be more to this......why would anyone shoot a person in the face with a BB gun? Horsing around when we were kids the boys would shoot each other with bb guns, but not in the face!
I'm betting he was actually threatening the guy with his real gun, knowing full and well what he was holding....and it went off without him meaning it to. I just cannot wrap my mind around aiming anything at all at a person's face without thinking about the harm it would do....even if it is a BB gun.
I am with LF
Much more to the story than we are being told .
Beyond careless. Yep, there's more to it.
Why has there always have to be some alternative motive? Can’t it just be someone really , really stupid was handling a pistol and they had absolutely no business doing so…because they are stupid. They have probably handled firearms carelessly all their life and it finally caught up with them. I doubt this was their first firearms mishap but they always got away with it in the past.
I get stupidity, I get careless, "accidents", Etc.
But I have never worked for anyone that would shoot me with a BB gun in the Face, that's the part I really don't get, you mistook your gun for a BB gun therefore its all good because shooting him in the face with a BB gun would have been OK.
What mogley said,,
When the local club was transitioning from “use common sense” as the primary rule and leaving gate open most of the time to actually having specific safety rules and keeping non members out, I suggested that part of the interview / application process should be to ask, “Have you ever had an unintentional discharge? If so please explain.” The immediate response from the members, “That can happen to anybody.” Well, sure it can and I thought how applicants responded would speak to their safety attitudes.