Webbj0219
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Guess Darwin wasnt right, sometimes they miss.
At least no one got killed. :rolleyes:
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Deltaboy1984
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Dang they are lucky they didn't get KILLED!
NavyLCDR
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I would not necessarily consider that good luck for the rest of us, though....
ArfinGreebly
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A Prayer
A prayer for our young friends, if you please.
I have, over the years, watched college students -- smart people, all of them -- do over-the-top things to prove a point.
Sober. Rational sounding. Completely serious. Teachable moment stuff.
And, in the process of scouring the landscape for IQ points, navigating their way carefully around the boulders of wisdom blocking their paths.
These kids won't always be stupid. Right about now, I'm guessing one or more of them is trading in a couple of IQ tokens for a +5 wisdom card.
Yeah, take a moment to chuckle over bright kids with a temporary case of the stupids, and then consider that these guys are going to be serious future advocates of gun safety.
Consider, if you will . . .
I'm sixty years old. I'm alert and aware in any activity that involves navigation, e.g. driving and the like. I took great care when teaching my kids to drive, to instruct them in the business of predicting what other drivers will do, based on "body language" of other vehicles. I taught them that the best way to avoid an accident is simply not to be there when it happens.
There was a moment, though, when I almost didn't make it to sixty. I had just turned twenty-three. I was a crewman on a training vessel, a converted WWII minesweeper. I was learning various navigation skills. On the night in question, I was helping teach some new guys.
A momentary lapse in alertness exposed us to a near collision. We were in deep water in the middle of the night. Chances are, if we'd gone down, more than half the crew would have been lost.
I got a little closer to real adulthood that night, and during the months that followed, regaining the trust of the crew.
Some of us do some acutely stupid things and live through them. Some of us were not born wise, but came by it the hard way.
These lads are going about it the hard way.
If they make it through, they will one day be guys you want on our side.
So, pray for them, that the wisdom they need does not cost them too dear.
A prayer for our young friends, if you please.
I have, over the years, watched college students -- smart people, all of them -- do over-the-top things to prove a point.
Sober. Rational sounding. Completely serious. Teachable moment stuff.
And, in the process of scouring the landscape for IQ points, navigating their way carefully around the boulders of wisdom blocking their paths.
These kids won't always be stupid. Right about now, I'm guessing one or more of them is trading in a couple of IQ tokens for a +5 wisdom card.
Yeah, take a moment to chuckle over bright kids with a temporary case of the stupids, and then consider that these guys are going to be serious future advocates of gun safety.
Consider, if you will . . .
I'm sixty years old. I'm alert and aware in any activity that involves navigation, e.g. driving and the like. I took great care when teaching my kids to drive, to instruct them in the business of predicting what other drivers will do, based on "body language" of other vehicles. I taught them that the best way to avoid an accident is simply not to be there when it happens.
There was a moment, though, when I almost didn't make it to sixty. I had just turned twenty-three. I was a crewman on a training vessel, a converted WWII minesweeper. I was learning various navigation skills. On the night in question, I was helping teach some new guys.
A momentary lapse in alertness exposed us to a near collision. We were in deep water in the middle of the night. Chances are, if we'd gone down, more than half the crew would have been lost.
I got a little closer to real adulthood that night, and during the months that followed, regaining the trust of the crew.
Some of us do some acutely stupid things and live through them. Some of us were not born wise, but came by it the hard way.
These lads are going about it the hard way.
If they make it through, they will one day be guys you want on our side.
So, pray for them, that the wisdom they need does not cost them too dear.
ForumSurfer
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+1 on ArfinGreebly's comment.
I did some boneheaded stuff in high school and college and I turned out fine. :banghead: Granted I didn't do this exact thing and shoot my buddies, but I did some equally stupid and life threatening things. My survival is nothing short of a miracle. I came out of it alive and with some hard learned lessons, just as these guys did. It's all fun and games until someone has a 40cal hole in their hand. Cut the kids some slack, they learned a very harsh lesson just like I'm sure we all have in different ways.
Edit:: I do my best to teach my son not to do the things I did and make my mistakes, yet we all manage to make a few of our father's mistakes, find some new ones and one up his bone headed youth.
I did some boneheaded stuff in high school and college and I turned out fine. :banghead: Granted I didn't do this exact thing and shoot my buddies, but I did some equally stupid and life threatening things. My survival is nothing short of a miracle. I came out of it alive and with some hard learned lessons, just as these guys did. It's all fun and games until someone has a 40cal hole in their hand. Cut the kids some slack, they learned a very harsh lesson just like I'm sure we all have in different ways.
Edit:: I do my best to teach my son not to do the things I did and make my mistakes, yet we all manage to make a few of our father's mistakes, find some new ones and one up his bone headed youth.
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True but it sure seems the majority of these "stupid" stories you hear these days involves a Glock.......I'm NOT saying Glock owners are stupid, just pointing out, as I have said before. That from my experience a large majority of Glock owners are young, inexperienced, first time gun owners who are rather clueless.
They are very devoted to their brand though and are overzealous, if not extremely irritating, in their praise to any and everyone willing to listen to them about "the best" and only handgun worth owning. I wish they'd focus more on the basic safety fundamentals and less on the promoting of the "best handgun"....... If they'd get their priorities straight possibly they'd quit shooting themselves on a regular basis.
I suppose, to cut them a little slack, getting ones priorities straight while still in your early 20's can be a difficult prospect....:banghead:
ClickClickD'oh
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What the heck does he have on his Glock?
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JMB was Mormon. Mormons should be carrying 1911s so accidents like this don't happen.
I wonder if Glock never put forward cocking serrations on their pistols because so many people (stupidly) hold their hand in front of the muzzle when moving the slide rearward?
I wonder if Glock never put forward cocking serrations on their pistols because so many people (stupidly) hold their hand in front of the muzzle when moving the slide rearward?
Nate1778
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See another Glock trying to kill its owner. :banghead:
Gouranga
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Really I would sum it up as complacency. As soon as we become complacent and lose our respect for the weapons we own, we open the door to doing stupid things like this?
These guys were so at ease with the gun in their hand that they got incredibly stupid. there are somethings in this world that forgive such complacency firearms are not one of them.
These guys were so at ease with the gun in their hand that they got incredibly stupid. there are somethings in this world that forgive such complacency firearms are not one of them.
1KPerDay
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Oh, good. That entitles you to be a bigot then. *whew*
It's okay... several of my best friends are bigots.
chieftain
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Actually I disagree. I believe the guy worked the slide with his hand over the muzzle BECAUSE he had no forward cocking serrations. He was trying to prove a point. He did, just not the point he was trying to make.
I hope Art is right about this young fellow. But many more folks than we realize are standing in the "DARWIN PICK ME" line. Many of these folks just have to practice to get it right.
Go figure.
Fred
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Simply amazing.
FIVETWOSEVEN
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It was a Glock probably because of how popular they are, alot of people have them.
mgregg85
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Chlorinating the gene pool, they got lucky this time, no one died.
Hatterasguy
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Looks like they were trying for the Darwin award this year but failed. Can't fix stupid.
Officers'Wife
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Mr. Greebly,
For a moment in time you have echoed words my grandfather would say. It heartens me to know that such wisdom and knowledge of human nature did not die off with him. Thank you.
Selena
For a moment in time you have echoed words my grandfather would say. It heartens me to know that such wisdom and knowledge of human nature did not die off with him. Thank you.
Selena
AKElroy
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Place loaded magazine in gun. Rack slide. Pull trigger. Gun fires.
Interesting.
Interesting.
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