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Wrong lesson: Gun safety class ends with couple wounded (VA)
The Roanoke Times ^
| April 23, 2012
| Duncan Adams
Posted on 04/23/2012 9:16:12 PM PDT by Perseverando
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"I think the bullets go in here, and come out here when you squeeze this thing here called the trigger." /sarc
To: Perseverando
You know the adage “You’re not a real biker, until you crash once?”
Well...
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:22:12 PM PDT
by
tickedoffnow
(No more...)
To: tickedoffnow
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:31:27 PM PDT
by
sheikdetailfeather
("We Need To Teach The Establishment a Lesson" - Newt Gingrich)
To: All
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:34:22 PM PDT
by
sheikdetailfeather
("We Need To Teach The Establishment a Lesson" - Newt Gingrich)
To: Perseverando
It may be your right, but you are the wrong kind to own the gun, son.
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:42:17 PM PDT
by
sagar
To: Perseverando
“Oops! Sorry dear.” If I were him and didn’t have a nice comfortable couch - I’d go out and buy one ... ;-)”
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:44:09 PM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: Perseverando
Being a man who's been married more than once, I can tell you that this is a really half-assed way to commit a domestic murder/suicide. Like my late daddy said: if you're gonna get thrown in a cell, don't do it for lunch money. Think big and go for Fort Knox.
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:48:36 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
( "I didn't just write 'Wango Tango'...........I MEANT it." - Ted Nugent)
To: sheikdetailfeather
I cannot be discounted that he only thought the hog was his girlfriend.
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posted on
04/23/2012 9:51:47 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: Perseverando
There is absolutely no need to have real ammo during a class in which there will be no firing. There wasn't any in the class I took. There were dummy rounds to learn how a cartridge works and how to load and unload the firearm.
Only when the classroom training was complete, and the students were properly trained in safety and firearm handling, did the participants move to a firing range.
The people running this class don't know what they are doing.
To: Perseverando
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posted on
04/23/2012 10:34:36 PM PDT
by
donmeaker
(Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
To: Perseverando
shot himself in the hand with a .45-caliber handgun and the bullet passed through his hand and struck his wifeThat there's whatcha call a two-fer.
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posted on
04/23/2012 10:37:13 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(You mean we have a choice between M.R. and B.O.?)
To: Perseverando
Think Mr. Thomas F. Starke should review his teaching lessons, I mean really, really review them, particularly the part about loaded pistols in class with people who need a gun safety class.
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posted on
04/23/2012 10:57:47 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: Perseverando
I never chamber a round unless I am preparing to shoot. Every LE type has an inadvertant discharge tale to tell. Too much can go wrong.
To: Perseverando
He violated the very first rule of gun safety -
Always treat a gun as if it is loaded even if you think it isn’t.
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posted on
04/23/2012 11:32:00 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Perseverando
Note to class: Do NOT demonstrate the M1911 disconnector safety with a loaded pistol. If the disconnector is faulty, you will shoot a hole in your hand.
[Note to those not acquainted with the M1911: this pistol has four safety devices: (1) Thumb Safety — locks trigger, hammer, and slide when applied; (2) Grip Safety — prevents firing if the pistol is not firmly gripped by the hand; (3) Half Cock Safety — prevents firing if the hammer slips while being lowered on a live round; (4) Disconnector Safety — prevents firing if the slide is not fully forward and locked. Item (3) is not a safe carry safety and item (4) is a mechanical check done during maintenance, but does not affect carry of the pistol.]
To: William Tell
Nice sentiment, but if this happened, someone wasn’t paying attention to the part about pointing in a safe direction, and treating every gun like it is loaded. I get nervous anytime i see people swinging barrels around, and will excuse myself from such gatherings.
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posted on
04/24/2012 12:33:19 AM PDT
by
Aqua225
(Realist)
To: Perseverando
Firearms instructor Starke went stark raving mad when da shooting started.
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posted on
04/24/2012 1:53:35 AM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
To: The_Media_never_lie
True, in 1967 I was in the ER of a rural hospital for shooting myself in the leg. The county sheriff took the report and was berating me about safety training, when his deputy walked in with a finger blown off while handling a derringer.
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posted on
04/24/2012 1:59:54 AM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
To: Perseverando
I believe they ‘failed’ that class with flying colors(and Tissue).
Must have been sleeping or texting/playing Angry Birds during that critical part of the class where they speak of not touching that damn trigger until READY TO FIRE.
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posted on
04/24/2012 2:17:35 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: The Cajun
First thing established at any class I teach:
“If you are carrying, or have any ammunition, please remove it from the classroom now”
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