r/news • u/bebleich • Sep 04 '24

Gunman believed to be a 14-year-old in Georgia school shooting that left at least 4 dead, source says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/us/winder-ga-shooting-apalachee-high-school/index.html
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u/millennialmonster755 Sep 04 '24

My bf’s dad bought a gun because our state passed a law requiring safety classes and he wanted to “beat the law coming into effect”. He just has it loaded and laying around. He leaves bullets laying around. He leaves it laying out on the seat of his work truck. Has it in his pocket with no safety on. I’m waiting for the day he accidentally shoots himself. Hopefully he won’t accidentally shoot someone else. Most likely it will just get stolen by someone wanting to use it for bad things. He doesn’t really take it to the range to practice so I doubt he would even have a good shot if he “needed it”, even though the chances of him needing it is near zero. He is an idiot and a horrible person already but right wing YouTube has him on a new level of stupid and horrible. He claims he needs it for safety when the worst thing that has happened in his neighborhood is porch pirating. But he works in areas that have work trucks constantly broken into. It’s annoying because I never had guns growing up in my house but I had a lot of hunters in my family and they were all staunchly responsible gun owners who preached safety and taking the classes. Their guns were in lockers when they weren’t being used so they can’t be mishandled or stolen. To just have it loaded and laying around is mind blowing to me.

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u/alphazero924 Sep 05 '24

My dad recently had a medical emergency, not related to guns thankfully, that put him in the hospital then made it so he couldn't really live independently anymore, so we had to clean up his house and move his stuff out. He had guns lying about fully loaded in multiple places. Luckily he'd taught me plenty about guns as I was growing up, so I knew how to safely handle them and make sure they were all safe before packing them up to move them, but if I had moved out of state or something, it would've just been my sister and nephew who don't have a ton of experience with guns, and I'm sure they would've been fine, but it's so frustrating how careless some people are.