A reminder to those taking "gun pics"

[outfieldjack]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4012755.html

I don't think any of us on THR do this........ and the above story is the reason why....

Jack

 

[MMcCall]

Ignorance remains the most deadly weapon of all.

 

[Dave P]

"While Aho was focusing the camera directly down the barrel, the gun went off."

Those dang mischievious guns, they seem to always find the wrong time to just go off! Why couldn't it just go off while it was in a drawer?

And another child killed by a firearm.


Sympathies for the survivors.

 

[280PLUS]

sounds like a darwin candidate,,,

what a

sympathies to the family of the victim

 

[TarpleyG]

That is why I have a remote control for my camera. That way, if I were to take a stupid pill and put my finger on the trigger of my loaded gun and squeeze when the flash scares me, just the camera gets it.

Moron!!!

GT

 

[Ringer]

My sympathies to the girl and her family.

Why do reports like this always seem to read "the gun went off"? Why can't they say Lessard accidentally, inadvertantly, NEGLIGENTLY (whatever) pulled the trigger while posing for a picture with a loaded gun?

It is so sad to see a young girl loose her life over something so stupid.

 

[Justin]

Idiot.

 

[DigMe]

Ugh...every time I see a photo like this of cops or something pointing a gun directly at the camera I think abou the possibility of something like this. Terrible. I feel sorry for the girl's family but the guy who shot is a double dumba$$...one for not clearing the gun and two for allowing such a careless pose to happen.

brad cook

 

[Betty]

Tripods. Remote release. Self-timer. Photoshop a doggone bullet down the barrel if you want to show a doggone bullet down the barrel while someone's holding the gun.

 

[keyhole]

My signature says it all.

Sympathies to the family of the unfortunate tragedy.

 

[Matthew Courtney]

Keep it civil, Matt.

 

[CZ-100]

It's just the gene pool weeding itself out.

 

[Big_R]

The trial took place in Itasca county (not the "cities"). If it had taken place in say, Hennipen county (metro), the kid probably would have gotten off. There are higher expectations in counties where people are supposed to know better.

I always thought it was a bad idea to look down a gun barrel while someone else was holding it.

My sympathies to the survivors.

Ryan

 

[10-Ring]

How unbelievably careless! My thoughts & prayers to the family.

 

[CGofMP]

Stupid... Stupid... Stupid...

I can not BELIEVE how bloomin retarded some people act. While I feel bad for the ladies family I feel even worse for what it does to our cause to have stuff like this happen. Did you notice how they did a backflip to tie it in to the kids father? Yes he was a gun nut too.. a congressional gun nut who championed outdoor and gun issues.. Seeeee how stupid everyone who owns a gun and breeds is sheeple? SEEEE how his proginy kills innocent photgraphers?

Ya know.. when I did the M1 Garand Rife - An American Companion In Three Wars Site I managed to survive LITERALLY *thousands* of exposures without ONE SINGLE negiligent discharge (ND). Similarly when I worked on the Nor-Cal Precision site, Jerry and I had not ONE accidental discharge (AD), or so much as an unexpected hammer fall. When I worked on the Jardines Custom and Valtro sites I lost NONE of the assistants that I was working with due to bullet woulds. Even when working with the sniper rifles and evil assault weapons for the Tactical Intervention site I somehow managed to not lose any photographers to lead poisoning. I can not tell you how many thousands of exposures that comes to. Almost all of them with a weapon present and in various states of breakdown or use.

Minding and OVER-stressing the basic four safety rules was second nature to everyone present. Each session of photography was begun with a TRIPPLE chack of the firearms being photographed by EVERY person present.



There are times when one needs to shoot a firearm with 'apparently' live rounds in it. NO PROBLEM! Get a reloader friend to make up a few with no powder and no primer.



I am so sick of people's stupidity affecting MY sport adversely. I am sick of each new death making new poster children for those who would ban my sport. WHy must it be that every stupidity induced gun death gets reported widely but when a kid starts his families house on fire in Illinois its RARE to hear about how his sister died from it if you are over 3 states away.

If this note seems a bit vitriolic.. well mea-culpa... I am sick of biased reporting and of those who are supposed to share my sport with me giving the reporters and politicians the fodder they need to continue their crusade against us.

Charles

 

[Dave R]

Poor kid violated rules 1, 2 and 3. A heavy price to pay. A good reminder to the rest of us.

 

[cool45auto]

Unbelievable.

 

[BIGR]

Sounds about like that Idiot that almost blowed my head off with a 12 GA shotgun one time. He thought he would see if the safety was working so he pulled the trigger, except the DUMB--- didn't have it on and shot over my head. All I can say is GOD was looking over me and that Idiot that day. It took alot of self control on my part not stomp that Idiots body into the earth. Needless to say I don't get around the Idiot anymore as long as guns are around.

 

[SoCalGeek]

Like hell i'm gonna give the star tribune marketing information... username: freeread password: readfree
enjoy

 

[Feanaro]

I feel sorry for the deceased and her family. I think the kid that did it should have gotten some time though, accident or not.

 

[PATH]

One tragic death. One ruined life. All guns are to be treated as loaded. All the time. This act of negligence shows why that rule is so very damned important. My deepest sympathies go out to that young lady's family.

 

[blades67]

I feel sorry for the deceased and her family. I think the kid that did it should have gotten some time though, accident or not.

The kid got four years. That sounds like enough time for the crime. More time won't teach him anything and results in two lives lost.

 

[duckfoot]

The price of that safety lesson was way too high!

 

[243_shooter]

<sigh>

I wonder if VPC will count the 20 yr old stupid enough to stand and look down the barrel of the gun as a "child".

From my earliest years I was told never to point ANY gun at ANYONE..

From my earlliest years I knew enough not to stand directly in front of one, nobody told me that, but even with my minimal smarts I figured it out all by myself..

My dad always said if you wanna be dumb, you gotta be tough. Unfortunately this time the poor fellow wasn't quite tough enough I guess.

Leo

 

[sturmruger]

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I do love it when they say "the gun just went off" I love how all of these guns just seem to go off unexpectedly. I am sure his finger wasn't anywhere near the trigger.