Thread: OH FFS

Originally Posted by Pengy

I feel for the guy who lost his son to an air rifle shot, but also have to wonder if closer supervision and more education would have prevented it.
Plenty of youngster are killed and injured on the roads each year, but I don't hear the parents demanding that we ban motor vehicles.

My thoughts exactly.

People get run over on the roads, they teach road safety at school. People drown in rivers and ocean, they teach water safety and swimming. None of these things are asked to be banned. Firearms use used to be taught in schools.

People have been killed here with axes, hammers and baseball bats, yet trees, buildings and baseball have not been asked to be banned. There have been a number of deaths with trees falling on people in the logging industry and log cartage accidents where safety awareness in now being taken more seriously. Why is it that firearms, where comparatively there are few deaths, are there calls for so many more restrictions?

Originally Posted by gadgetman

My thoughts exactly.

People get run over on the roads, they teach road safety at school. People drown in rivers and ocean, they teach water safety and swimming. None of these things are asked to be banned. Firearms use used to be taught in schools.

People have been killed here with axes, hammers and baseball bats, yet trees, buildings and baseball have not been asked to be banned. There have been a number of deaths with trees falling on people in the logging industry and log cartage accidents where safety awareness in now being taken more seriously. Why is it that firearms, where comparatively there are few deaths, are there calls for so many more restrictions?

could it be that "man hit by car" does not sell as many papers as Man Shot" (accidentally or otherwise)

Originally Posted by mikee

could it be that "man hit by car" does not sell as many papers as Man Shot" (accidentally or otherwise)

Not only is a death by motor vehicle not a big seller for the papers, it is simply something we have come to accept as almost the norm. Very sad

Originally Posted by gadgetman

My thoughts exactly.

People get run over on the roads, they teach road safety at school. People drown in rivers and ocean, they teach water safety and swimming. None of these things are asked to be banned. Firearms use used to be taught in schools.

People have been killed here with axes, hammers and baseball bats, yet trees, buildings and baseball have not been asked to be banned. There have been a number of deaths with trees falling on people in the logging industry and log cartage accidents where safety awareness in now being taken more seriously. Why is it that firearms, where comparatively there are few deaths, are there calls for so many more restrictions?

@gadgetman

Gun City should perhaps have urged parents to get their kids interested in guns, not for its own sake, but because it is a safer interest than pony riding, rugby, fast or slow cars, motorbikes, mountain bikes, skateboarding, couch fat kid potatoing etc.

One main reason that shooting is much safer is of course that most don't need reminders they easily kill.