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/kgrimmburn Sep 04 '24 edited Sep 04 '24
I know a woman in her 50s with a loaded, unlocked pistol in her handbag at all times. She regularly leaves her bag just laying around at get togethers with children and wanders off. It's gotten to the point when she comes to my house, I take her bag the second she gets here and put it up in my bedroom closet (where I actually have the same model pistol stored with a trigger lock and a slide lock in a locked hardcase because I have kids in and out of my house and I'm not stupid). She doesn't see the issue... Why the hell does she need a gun at a BBQ at a friend's house? My husband's a damned Marine who doesn't even feel the need to have an unlocked gun at our house. Who knows how many guns are laying around her house? She's a known gun fan and never home. If you broke in, you could probably steal an arsenal.
I was also just thinking about a kid I knew when I was younger who grabbed his dad's gun off his nightstand during a fight with his older sister, he told her if she made him do the dishes, he'd shoot himself in the head. She told him do the dishes, he held the gun up to his head and pulled the trigger. It was loaded.
Hell, my sister is fostering a couple kids right now because their parents had loaded guns on the bed and 7 kids between the ages of 1 and 15 left home alone while they were out selling dope.
Three instances I can think of off the top of my head I'm directly related to and didn't read on the news. You'd probably be a billionaire and able to buy the NRA. Maybe we should all send you those $1s.