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, its 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 didnt 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 isnt out yet on how reliable they actually are. Furthermore, while theyre aimed to deter accidental shootings, theres nothing accidental about pointing a gun at someone and firing it intentionally. Had anything remotely failed, then that cameraman wouldve 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 cant 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 didnt think it was going to do that.
No matter what safety measures are present on a firearm, that doesnt 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, youve 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 dont kill people its the folks operating them that kill people.
Virginia apparently doesnt 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; childrens 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 hasnt been passed yet is the ban of assault weapons, which many Democrats dont 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.
I was all of nine years old when I handed my Dad’s pistol back to him without engaging the safety switch. I got an @$$ chewing that I would never forget . . . and rightly so. It was several months before he allowed me to handle another firearm.
as a side note, I watched the Vice News series about the Clinton Whitewater-Monical Lewinsky scandal.
It was generally pretty fair about discussing Clintons failures and crimes, although they did include a few perfunctory leftist caricatures of far right players, like Jerry Falwell. Monica admitted her stupidity in getting involved with Bill Clinton.
Otherwise, all the advertisements in between were for a clearly leftist market - HIV medicine being the most common.
I told my crew that we had a crazy guy with a gun. We “armed” ourselves with axes and took cover behind the fire engine. I called for police backup with my radio. About a minute later, the most incompetent lesbian super cop on the police department showed up. I knew her from recent incidents and it was a face palm moment when I saw who it was. About that time we saw the naked guy still holding his gun go out the back door of his house and enter through the side door of his garage. I thought maybe he was going to get into his car and try to get away.
Super cop still hadn't figured out what she should be doing when a police sergeant and half a dozen other cars showed up. We then heard naked armed crazy clown start up what sounded like a lawn mower in his garage. The sergeant asked me if that would kill him. I told him eventually, but it would take quite awhile. After a few minutes, he shut the mower down and we could hear coughing. The police sergeant used his cars PA speaker to tell him that he was surrounded and to come out with his hands up. The side door to the guys garage opened up and the naked guy came out with his hands up. We gave the police one of our yellow disposable blankets and they put him in the back of one of their cars.
The police went in and opened the two main garage doors to let it air out. When one of the officers removed the magazine from the pistol, he saw that the cartridges had been loaded into it backwards.
I don’t even allow my kids to point toys guns at people. Much less idiots like this pointing a real one at someone.
How many people have been shot by supposedly unloaded, unchambered, safety engaged, guns?
What a maroon!
Sledge Hammer comes to mind.
” but it was not a case of pointing a loaded weapon and pulling the trigger.
What armydoc says.
Be careful what you comment without actually reading the article or watching the video.
Only two rules to avoid most “accidental” shootings.
They do not apply to justified INTENTIONAL shootings.
Rule number one:
NEVER point a gun at anyone.
Rule number two:
NEVER put your finger into the trigger guard or on the trigger.
ZERO tolerance for breaking either rule.
If either ONE is followed, everyone is safer.
If BOTH are followed, everyone is safe.
Wow. Just wow.
“The camera guy should have picked up the gun and done the same to the reporter and FILMED it.”
That would be tough to do since nobody has used film in decades. But he could possibly have digitally recorded it.
That reporter must have quite a rep now with the camera crews.
Cameraman: Drops camera, walks over to reporter, punches him in the nose.
Cameraman: “So sorry, I thought the smart chip would stop my fist, my bad”.
If I were that cameraman, that reporter would not have gone home safely that night.
Every Liberal should be Red-flagged.
They are Idiots.
I disagree. Having gone to school, and known both, socially, elementary school teachers are the most stupid. However, journalists are such a close second as to be almost indistinguishable...
The subtle different is that teachers don't know they are stupid and don't brag about it. Journalists do not know they are stupid, and loudly and smugly claim expertise.
Obviously the gun was smarter than the a$$hole!
I would have had him arrested for attempted murder. Then sue him for all he’s worth.
You make a good point!
I myself have ended a relationship with a certain relative, for life, over something not much different.
BLAM!!
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