How many gun rules where broken here. Sad

shooting accident

Atleast three of the 4URFS...and a case could probably be made for the fourth one, as well.

All four rules must be broken simultaneously for someone to be negligently shot.

1. he did not treat the gun as loaded.
2. he obviously pointed it at something he did not want to destroy.
3. he obviously had his finger on the trigger at some point.
4. he was not sure of his target, since he didn't know and/or care what the gun was pointing at when he pulled the trigger.


All four rules broken.

Already being talked about here http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=433033

This is why you have your guns out every day. Forgetting about them until they rust breeds stupidity.

#1 KEEP IT POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION! DUH! #2, ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE GUN IS UNLOADED, UNLESS YOU INTEND TO SHOOT IT! you dont have to do every one of the 10 comamndements every single time you look at a gun (although it helps!), but you do have to do AT LEAST SOME OF THEM! GESSH! i can not imagine trying to clean a gun , scratch that, i can not even imagine HANDLEING a gun that i hadn't cleared first. it sucks for the boy, and the whole family. the dad is going to beat himself up every day for the rest of his life.

As pointed out by Gamera - already under discussion:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=433033