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My wife and I have name for people like this: Argo. (Another Responsible Gun Owner). Argo always thinks they are right. Argo will defend the second amendment. Argo definitely checked the chamber and the gun is totally not loaded. Argo has accidents sometimes.
Just like terminal car brain people. They're such a good driver until someone starts to cut them off and they start to speed up to "defend their right of way."
Never point it at things you don't want dead. No matter how unloaded, no matter if the safety is on. How do they keep screwing that up?
That is, if this wasn't just a murder and the claim of "accident" is a lie.
This was 100% murder
It totally was a murder. Why would you point a gun at your own kid if not to murder them?
You sound like Argo. Argo always says these things and when you talk to the people who knew Argo they'll tell you how Argo never seemed to be unsafe with a weapon.
I'm only pointing out that the common point of almost every fatal gun accident is that the gun was pointed at someone. It's the one single thing that you can do to nearly guarantee a gun won't harm someone: don't point it at them. In this case, if this was an accident (doubt), that would have easily been accomplished by leaving it in storage, where it could not have been pointed at anyone.
I'm not sure why you're being a dick here, or what your point is. Obviously, not having a gun is a good way not to have a gun accident. I'm only pointing out that many gun owners can't seem to meet the very basic and obvious standard of "don't point a deadly weapon at people unless you want them dead".
This guy was a huge piece of shit, as evidenced by the things he said to his daughter before murdering her. You pinning this down as just another case of "guns inherently bad" takes the agency away from this guy, who seems to have been routinely weird about his daughter before he eventually murdered her. His problem wasn't that he had guns, or that he was an alcoholic, his problem was that he either A) wanted to scare his daughter into agreeing with him by making her think he was going to kill her, or B) wanted to kill his daughter for disagreeing with him.
He could have murdered his daughter without a gun, he could have avoided murdering his daughter despite having a gun. How many people do you attribute not murdering per day to that fact that you just haven't got a gun?
Look, cops have guns, lots of them, so by my assessment we should at least have some people that actually value human life who own guns too.
Edited more shit I had to say into this comment, sorry if you already read it the first time.
damn lenin-on-lenin violence
Guns kill people. Do you know what that can include? Fascists.