• Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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    Current report is the gun accidentally went off. Dude deserves the books thrown at him though. Kids where already off his property and honestly where not a threat in the first place. This is like that one story where the dude shot at a car turning around in his driveway.

    As someone who owns multiple guns both for sport and hunting these are the people that should not ever own one!!!

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      Gun owner here.

      1. Treat all guns as if they are always loaded - Followed
      2. Never let the muzzle point at anything that you are not willing to destroy - Violated
      3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shoot - Violated
      4. Be sure of your target and what is behind it - Violated

      This shooter violated three of the four fundamental gun safety rules. That’s not an accident. It’s attempted murder.

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      2 months ago

      gun accidentally went off

      Yeah, of course. The gun accidentally leapt out of its holster and into its owner’s hand, accidentally released the safety, accidentally pointed itself at the victim’s face, and accidentally went off.

      Completely unavoidable accident, really.

      Weird how these extremely common completely unavoidable accidents tend to overwhelmingly concentrate themselves on one particular country in the whole wide world, though. Must be some kind of accidental statistical fluke.

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      Not his property. His gf’s property. Dude has no legal right whatsoever to guard property that isn’t his own, does he?

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          Well if he “drove over to her property”, he might not even be an occupant

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            If you drive to your friend’s house for dinner, you’re a legal occupant of their house.

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        That’s not entirely true.

        When I took my concealed carry class in Tx there was a section on this.

        It depends heavily on the relationship between you and the owner of the property. The example given in the class was a good neighbor relationship and suggested talking about this before something happened.

        I would expect that if the shooter and the owner are in contact during the event to weigh heavily on it.

        The gist is, it depends state-to-state but I would expect that their relationship would make an otherwise LEGAL use of a firearm OK. (I’m really not sure if this is a legal use…)