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guyton

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Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:16 PM Dec 2014

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Criminal negligence causing death is so much easier when there is a firearm around. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1
Because guns don't kill people accidents kill people upaloopa Dec 2014 #2
Or tragedies NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #3
Clearly there was no intent here yeoman6987 Dec 2014 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Dec 2014 #5
We really don't know who owned the gun yeoman6987 Dec 2014 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Dec 2014 #7
I agree about some additional laws or even requirements should be added yeoman6987 Dec 2014 #8
Apparently it's OK to bring a loaded shotgun to school Midnight Writer Dec 2014 #9
think before you speak dnh Dec 2014 #13
Guns don't just "go off". whopis01 Dec 2014 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Dec 2014 #11
Guns do not just "go off" whopis01 Dec 2014 #12

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Criminal negligence causing death is so much easier when there is a firearm around.
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:18 PM
Dec 2014

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
2. Because guns don't kill people accidents kill people
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:20 PM
Dec 2014

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
3. Or tragedies
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:21 PM
Dec 2014
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
4. Clearly there was no intent here
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:22 PM
Dec 2014

That is why it is an accident. Sad story all around.

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yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
6. We really don't know who owned the gun
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:39 PM
Dec 2014

It might have been the driver's. it does seem to be his car. I can't imagine any charges coming from this.

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yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
8. I agree about some additional laws or even requirements should be added
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 04:41 PM
Dec 2014

What I really wish was that we would learn from our mistakes as a society. That would help a great deal to end these tragedies from happening again.

Midnight Writer

(22,973 posts)
9. Apparently it's OK to bring a loaded shotgun to school
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 11:25 PM
Dec 2014

I guess Colorado has never experienced a school shooting. (I would insert one of those dripping sarcasm thingies here if I had the skills)

dnh

(1 post)
13. think before you speak
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 12:43 PM
Dec 2014

It's not like he was walking around the school with it, and this wasn't a "school shooting." Maybe you need to implement a policy that every school in CO has somebody go around to every student's car every day and inspect them for guns. Good luck with that.

whopis01

(3,723 posts)
10. Guns don't just "go off".
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 11:53 PM
Dec 2014

Firearms don't "accidentally discharge".

Someone accidentally discharged the firearm.

Response to whopis01 (Reply #10)

whopis01

(3,723 posts)
12. Guns do not just "go off"
Wed Dec 3, 2014, 08:48 AM
Dec 2014

Guns are inanimate objects. They don't do anything of their own accord.

When someone mishandles a firearm - either through recklessness, lack of training, or whatever - they may fire the gun without meaning to but the gun doesn't just "go off".

I don't think you and I are actually in disagreement here. I just find it annoying when I hear someone say something like "I was just cleaning my gun and it went off" or "he was showing it to a friend and it went off". It smacks of trying to avoid blame by making sound like the firearm malfunctioned somehow. As if the gun took action on its own. In virtually every case there was no malfunction - it was misuse.

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