• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    It is never an accident when you pick up a gun in a political argument.

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      It is never an accident when you pick up a gun in a political argument.

      If you pick up a gun and don’t clear it. You are negligent.
      If you point a gun at someone. You are negligent.
      If you are not taking any safety precautions when handling a firearm. You are negligent.

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          Not in Texas apparently.

          Reminds me of back in the 1950’s and before when getting black out drunk and running over someone was an “accident”.

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        I phrased is like this as I know that in some situations it might be needed to pick up a gun to defend yourself from harm.

        However, no political argument should ever devolve into the need for guns.

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      You’re right.

      Luckily there’s no article supplied so you can’t see that the argument and the gunshot are non-contemporaneous.

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        I find it baffling when I go through a chain of comments with people complaining that the source is missing which provides context, but they don’t link the source.

        “Don’t trust what people say happened if they don’t have a source. You can trust what I say happened without a source.”