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Originally posted by floydthebarber
Well now, that's a very sad story isn't it.
I wonder why he felt he needed to carry a loaded gun in his car?
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/scratches head
Well, the usual response is that he would need to kill a carjacker.
Or, save an old lady from a mugger.
These are the usual responses from the gun crowd--don't know why they aren't holding to their usual mantra now.
How would he be able to get a trigger lock off a gun in time to be a hero?
The guy had a license to carry and he put it in his console. We don't know whether the child was in a car seat or whether he was too big to be in one. I wonder if all you gun carriers stick the thing in your pants whenever you run into 7-11?
Anyway, a little senstivitiy is in order--the guy lost his son because of an accident. It's an accident that would have been prevented had he placed a trigger lock on his gun or left it at home. Yet, whenever I mention such a restriction in various other threads the gun crowd wails that they won't be able to whip it out and kill a criminal in enough time.
It's also an accident that would have been prevented had he not been allowed to have a gun at all.
I'm fine with any of these suggestions, yet it isn't the "anti" gun crowd yelling about the right and duty to carry lethal weapons at the ready...