Posted on 01/30/2020 7:48:08 AM PST by Impala64ssa
In two seconds, this guy proved that he should never be allowed to handle a weapon.
A media personality for Vice News recently broke one of the essential rules of gun safety: never let a gun barrel face anything that you are not willing to destroy.
While doing a piece on “smart guns”, the reporter pointed a weapon at his own cameraman and pulled the trigger. While the “smart gun” worked as it was intended to, that had to be one of the most flagrantly dangerous manners to handle and treat a firearm, and further exposed the ignorance of people who are trying to ban guns altogether.
For those unfamiliar with what a “smart gun” is, it’s a firearm devised in a way that is intended to only discharge a bullet under certain circumstances. Often called the personalized-gun, most employ technology like RFID chips that function as proximity tokens. What those proximity tokens are meant to do is render a weapon useless unless the proper token is held by the person firing the weapon.
Employing technology into guns would obviously help to cut down on negligent accidents – except there are still several well-stated liability concerns.
Still, that didn’t stop this Vice News journalist and host from pointing a loaded weapon at one of his crewmembers and pulling the trigger.
While the motivations behind the creation and prototypes of “smart guns” are noble, since they aim to decrease accidental shootings, the data isn’t out yet on how reliable they actually are. Furthermore, while they’re aimed to deter accidental shootings, there’s nothing “accidental” about pointing a gun at someone and firing it intentionally. Had anything remotely failed, then that cameraman would’ve either been dead or seriously maimed by the blatant display of idiocy.
Former Marine turned writer, Julio Rosas, posted a clip on Twitter showcasing the demonstrably dangerous maneuver of pointing a weapon at a camera man and pulling the trigger:
“Still can’t get over that a Vice reporter, in a video on “smart guns” helping prevent accidental shootings, decided to it was a good idea to point a Thompson, that had a drug mag in, at his cameraman, pull the trigger, and then say, “I didn’t think it was going to do that.””
No matter what safety measures are present on a firearm, that doesn’t mean someone should be frivolous with regarding the four essential rules of firearm safety. The rules are:
Treat all guns as if they are always loadedNever let the muzzle cover anything that you are not willing to destroyKeep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shootBe sure of your target and what is behind it and always secure your guns from unauthorized persons
The fact that the reporter essentially disregarded nearly all aspects of firearm safety is completely irresponsible. There are countless instances where people assumed the “safety” was “on” which then results in an accidental shootings.
“Smart gun” technology is nothing more than an elaborate “safety” feature, and vesting so much trust in that feature to point a loaded weapon and fire at someone is an example of a person who should never handle a weapon.
Even the technology publication TechCrunch is extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of these “smart guns”. Journalist Jon Stokes stated the dangers of adding smart-technology to a firearm:
“Whenever you attach software to some new category of things — especially software that has any kind of connection to the outside world, whether via RFID or an actual network — then in addition to whatever problems that thing had before, you’ve introduced a whole host of brand new security and identity problems.”
According to the CDC, there are approximately 487 unintentional gun deaths per year in the United States. Unintentional gun deaths are preventable ones more often than not, and the easiest way to not add to the statistics is to not point loaded guns at people. Remember – guns don’t kill people – it’s the folks operating them that kill people.
Virginia apparently doesn’t care about data behind gun violence either, as they just overlooked facts and passed sweeping gun legislation.
The seven bills that have passed in the committee so far are: Universal background checks; Red Flag Protective Orders; one handgun purchase per month; reporting lost or stolen guns; local authority to ban guns in government buildings; children’s access protections; protective orders and firearms.
These pieces of legislation reflect seven out of eight gun control laws that Governor Northam has deemed his “priorities” for this legislative session. The one bill that hasn’t been passed yet is the ban of “assault weapons,” which many Democrats don’t believe have a high probability of passing this year.
These bills are headed down the road to become laws, despite thousands of law-abiding citizens showing up to rally their elected representatives and ask them to not strip away their constitutional rights. And despite an overwhelming majority of local municipalities declaring themselves second amendment sanctuaries.
Moms Demand Action was very happy with the first step of stricter gun control in Virginia. The group is funded by Everytown for Gun Safety, which is funded by presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
Moms Demand Action advocates for gun control laws, believing it will result in fewer acts of gun violence. Many of the members have lost children to shootings.
That’s about as smart as the Los Angeles N-word.
I recall not long ago watching an old rerun of St Elsewhere, where Wayne Fiscus (Howie Mandel) pulls out the gun he carried concealed (illegally for protection in Boston) to show to a female colleague. He simply handed the gun to her, loaded and with the action (or revolver component) closed and that certainly struck me as a dangerous thing to do. These liberal types really do demonstrate their ignorance with actions like these and the one featured in the article.
This is demonstrably stupid and dangerous person. The kind of dip(t) the Dims make Red Flag laws over. He should maybe be in jail for attempted manslaughter. Geeze!
If I had been the camera guy I would have dropped the camera and beat the crap out of that reporter.
I believe you are referring to the cylinder.
Yup-It’s official. All ‘journalists’ are morons!
I think it’s time for all ‘journalism’ graduates to ask for their money back.
Most libs depend too much on technology and not enough on common sense.
The camera guy should have picked up the gun and done the same to the reporter and filmed it.
I think it is true, actually, that journalists are the stupidest people on Earth.
This is just another piece of evidence in favor of that claim.
Stupid is as stupid does . . .
Dumb thing to do, but I doubt this was a “smart gun” (it looks like a tommy gun, I don’t think they are retrofitting ancient guns like this with “smart” technology). I also highly doubt the weapon was loaded. They are in a gun shop, not at a range. There would be no reason for it to be loaded. It sounds like the hammer on the weapon does fall as well. So, yes, it was a violation of basic rules of gun safety, but it was not a case of “pointing a loaded weapon and pulling the trigger”.
WTF is a Drug Mag?
This reporter should face criminal charges. It is menacing at the least and maybe criminal negligence with a firearm depending on the jurisdiction.
They called it a Thompson, so my guess is autospell changed “drum”.
Ahh...a Bommy Gun..
Not only stupid, but a felony.
Ban drug mags!!
Hey! I bet that reporter chick in the middle cut learned that from Kamala Harris!
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