They tell you that it's RULE #1.

[sendec]

I unilateraly declare that Billmanweh is right and the rest of us are wrong. Mea Freakin Culpa

(Psst, everybody else, when he turns around and is'nt listening let's go back to the way that has served us so well, albeit in our ignorance, for so long.

Wait, wait......wait for it.....

there he goes! ND! ND! ND!)

 

[Atticus]

The term "unintentional" (UD) has been offered up in nearly all of these types of threads...but people seem to enjoy argueing about it more than anything else. Obviously, negligence is the cause of many, if not most, accidents. I'm more curious about the term "industry" ...what exactly IS this industry...and when did we all become subject to it's rules of language? Does "industry" language policy require insulting fellow gun owners as well?

 

[Wayne D]

Everybody is wrong, the issue is not whether it's an accidental discharge or a negligent discharge! It's whether it is a "Possessed Firearms Discharge" or a "Demonic Discharge". I'm going to bed.

 

[ilcylic]

Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win you're still a retard.

Don't y'all have anything better to get your knickers in a twist about?

-Ogre

 

[HABU]

I suppose it was an accident that I put a .270 round in my 7MM mag.

Never argue with a fool...people won't be able to tell the difference.

 

[Atticus]

Well I guess that depends. Did you know the round was a .270 and negligently put it in anyway...or did you put it in unintentionally?

 

[Sunray]

Nope. Rule number one is assume every firearm is loaded.

 

[BluesBear]

Talk about flawed logic.

Try googling "accidental discharge" (205,000 hits) and "negligent discharge" (84,300 hits)

Just because more morons misuse a word or phrase doesn't make it correct. :banghead:

If that becomes the case then it will only be a few years before our official language becomes ebonics.

 

[EvilOmega]

ac•ci•dent

1. An unexpected and undesirable event
Q: you want a gun that doesn’t fire when the trigger is pulled?

2. An unforeseen incident
Q: You where expecting a flag that said bang and instead a bullet came out.

neg•li•gence

Law. Failure to exercise the degree of care considered reasonable under the circumstances, resulting in an unintended injury to another party.

 

[Wayne D]

I suppose it was an accident that I put a .270 round in my 7MM mag.

Not if the gun was possessed!

I’m sorry, I just can’t get over the possessed gun thing.

 

[Billmanweh]

Just because more morons misuse a word or phrase doesn't make it correct.

The point was, there is no "industry" standard term, as was claimed earlier.

ND, AD, UD, they are all correct

 

[Wayne D]

The issue here is not the technical definitions in Webster’s. The issue is the impression the general public gets when they hear these terms used in relation to firearms. In a time when the anti-gun news media does everything they can to make people think guns are so dangerous that they shouldn’t even have them in the house, we need to be careful of the terminology that we use. The news media loves the bogus claim that a gun kept in the home is x% (I can’t remember the exact percentage but it was high) more likely to harm someone in the home than be used for self-defense. Couple this with news reports of gun “accidents†and the average non-gun person is going to think that guns are at fault or the cause of the accident. However, when the term “negligent†is used, it is plain that the fault is with the user and not the machine used, in this case guns. Why does that matter here, between us? If a non-gun person is surfing our forum and reads discussions about gun accidents then we have done nothing to change his impressions from those formed from watching the news, but if he reads our discussion of negligent discharges then maybe he will start to understand.