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some_guy ,

I definitely need a gun to take out my trash. You never know when trash-monsters might jump out of the dumpster and then what.

morphballganon ,

Maybe San Antonio has a trash monster problem.

shalafi , (edited )

^ Says man who has never encountered violence in his white-bread suburb.

TexasDrunk ,

Have you been to Texas? There are trash monsters everywhere around here!

I talk shit, but I would absolutely have a firearm some places when taking out the trash. We’ve got a crazy feral hog problem some places. I’ve been trapped in a building by them. A friend got charged heading to his car by a pack of them. Another friend had his driver’s side door fucked up by one while stopped at a stop sign. They will absolutely fuck you up.

Of course none of this was in San Antonio, it was all in rural Texas. I have no idea whether they’re out there causing havoc.

@thefartographer care to weigh in? How bad is it out there?

InternetCitizen2 ,

Damn, should have had a good gun to stop his bad one.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

That’s honestly impressive.

IphtashuFitz ,

Eh. The Darwin Awards have seen countless examples of:

  • Police, firearm instructors, etc. shooting themselves.
  • People “proving” (incorrectly) that a gun is unloaded by pointing it at their head & pulling the trigger.
  • Hunters being shot by their dogs that step on the triggers of shotguns etc.
  • People using waistbands as holsters.
  • People playing Russian roulette, sometimes with semiautomatic pistols.

And on and on…

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

It’s so wild to me to hear these things, because it’s been a good 15 years since I took hunter safety training in my state, but the literal first thing they taught us was about considering where your bullet’s going to go.

Reverendender ,

So…we needed…some bad guys with guns to…save this guy…from shooting…himself. By shooting him first. Am I doing this right?

jonne ,

At least nobody stole his trash, which was bound to happen if he had been unarmed.

LostWanderer ,

Oh, for fun! Aren’t they training these gun-worshiping weirdos that making use of the safety is a sound practice?

semperverus ,
@semperverus@lemmy.world avatar

That only works if the gun has one (a large minority of them don’t)

LostWanderer ,

Wat? That’s like a maliciously clever way to make people earn a Darwin Award.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Many modern guns have internal safeties that stop the gun going off from being dropped or what not, but have no external safety to prevent the trigger being pulled. Like Glocks.

They don’t always work, though. Also older guns and revolvers don’t have jack shit because they’re either older than the safety lock or a safety lock wouldn’t work anyway.

Sgt_choke_n_stroke ,

A Darwin award is needed for this idiot

FundMECFSResearch ,

USE THE FUCKING SAFETY YOU IDIOTS

semperverus ,
@semperverus@lemmy.world avatar

Some guns, shockingly, don’t have a safety.

running_ragged ,

Don’t buy those guns idiots

shalafi ,

I have a couple without external safeties. The idea is to carry them in a fitted holster that covers the trigger. Kydex holsters are like $25 or $30 for any given model, it’s a no-brainer.

Also, they have internal safeties to prevent firing when dropped. Also, they have long and hard trigger pulls.

Don’t buy those guns idiots

You need to pass this wisdom on to thousands and thousands of police and military forces across the planet. Because Glock.

SoJB ,

Am I missing something or are there just no gun owners here. This is incredibly disingenuous, and even dangerous, “advice”.

A loaded gun with a round in the chamber should fire when the trigger is pulled, every single time. They should not fire when the trigger is not pulled.

Following any one of the three safety rules prevents 100% of “accidents”. There are no real gun accidents besides catastrophic mechanical failure (which does happen, but usually with shit ammo and shit guns or poorly maintained guns).

Depending on traditional safeties encourages poor gun handling habits and adds precious time to fire when milliseconds count. “Safety-less” pistols will not fire unless the trigger is pulled, period.

miseducator ,

Yeah, no shit. And having a safety makes it near impossible to pull the trigger. I don’t think anyone here doesn’t understand the concept of a safety mechanism.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

There’s also a safety on some guns, which I personally hate, that allows you to pull the trigger, but the safety disconnects the mechanism from the pin, or blocks the pin from going forward.

Personally I’d rather they just not allow a trigger pull at all. It’s especially freaky when you get one that still moves the hammer.

EmoDuck ,

How to fire a gun without touching the trigger

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Modern designed production firearms have internal safeties that prevent the firing pin from moving forward if the trigger isn’t pulled.

That video is on single action revolvers which have been out of vogue for over a century.

Skip to 1:40

youtu.be/V2RDitgCaD0?si=

darvocet ,

Nature is healing itself.

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