A 53-year-old man in Pennsylvania has been hospitalized after his canine accidentally fired a shotgun at him, police said.
  • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    190·
    9 个月前

    I’m not American but even I know you need to keep your dogs secured in a dog safe when you’re not using them. It’s just basic dog safety

  • JustTheWind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    661·
    9 个月前

    Owner shot from behind by their own shotgun due to negligent firearm storage. Dog didn’t shoot shit.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      9 个月前

      Once they get a taste for blood, they never stop.

      Prequel to the critically acclaimed ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ we present to you: ‘Dog with a Shotgun’.

      • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
        111·
        9 个月前

        11 people that didn’t read the article. Says he went into surgery. Not dead. Owner is still a dumbfuck who should have their gun privileges taken away.

        • MrFinnbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 个月前

          I really dont understand when people say gun privilige. Like owning a gun is something people should aspire towards.

          Guns should be responsibilities, not privilieges.

          • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
            4·
            9 个月前

            Responsibilities usually come with privileges. If you fail to fulfil your responsibilities, you lose those privileges. I’m not really sure what you’re getting at here because I don’t think we really disagree.

  • Qwel@sopuli.xyzdeleted by creatorEnglish
    48·
    9 个月前

    Looking at the news I would guess American houses are buit mostly out of loaded firerarms coddled together by zipties. And oversized fridges.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      28·
      9 个月前

      Its actually a very common problem. Gun nuts all think they are John McClane and need to keep one in the chamber at all times. They remove the magazine but never properly run the action and yeah. Its especially a problem with glocks because disassembly actually involves squeezing the trigger.

      Responsible gun owners are only slightly more common than good guys with a gun.

      • Telex@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        51·
        9 个月前

        Most people I’ve met really should not have guns. And don’t, as far as I know.

        • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 个月前

          Even in America, the vast majority of people don’t own a gun. Something like 70%.

          • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            9 个月前

            and yet, there are 120 guns for every 100 people. pehaps on loan from the gun library? Donde esta la bibioteca di boom boom?

          • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            9 个月前

            Still, only the US has an annual toddler/dog gun killing rate (as in the toddler/dog shooting somebody else).

            Also 44% of Americans live in a household where a gun is present.

            • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              9 个月前

              Both those statements track, more or less, since the guns are usually owned by one person in the house.

      • Carl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 个月前

        Like my brother? Has anger issues, and thinks he is allowed shoot people in self-defence(which is illegal in my country).

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      9 个月前

      Those cases are failed suicide attempts or they were otherwise doing something they know damned well was stupid.

      Any given weapon is stupid easy to clear, in 3-4 seconds, and be certain it’s clear. Not like bullets are hiding in there somehow.

      • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        9 个月前

        Agreed. There are a lot of people and a lot of guns in the world, so I won’t say that it’s never happened. The vast majority of those cases, though, are suicides or failed suicides where they’re trying to save face and/or make sure the life insurance still pays out.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 个月前

          Life insurance does pay in the event of suicide! Depends on the length of time between taking the policy and, uh, execution. Terms and conditions may apply!

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        9 个月前

        Yeah but if a transexual immigrant libtard jumps you, you ain’t got no time to get a round in the chamber.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      122·
      9 个月前

      stuff like this makes a real strong case for taking guns away from everybody

    • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
      18·
      9 个月前

      My father, an NRA member sucker that claims gun safety first, leaves a 12g fully loaded (buckshot) with one in the chamber and safety off in a soft bag with the zipper open right under him while he sleeps. He also has Parkinsons.

      You’re giving these people way too much credit by presuming they do any form of critical thinking.

        • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 个月前

          Yea… that’s the scariest, darkest part of it. He’s also the guy standing next to you in the grocery store line proudly displaying his Glock on his hip. No idea how he carries that (i.e., chambered, hammer cocked, safety on? no clue). Imagine if something went down that actually warranted the use of the pistol while you’re standing in line…

      • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        You mean its not clipped into a swivel bracket on the underside of the slats for when your new partner escapes having his brains blown out in a bathtub?!

        How will we know whether he’s surgical with that bitch, Jake?!

      • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedEnglish
        4·
        9 个月前

        Even then it’s dumb, but you can always load it if you think you will need it. It shouldn’t be chambered all the time though. Guns are too dangerous to use like that.

          • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
            10·
            9 个月前

            I accidentally got dragged into a conversation at work with a gun owner who seemed to have it mapped out exactly how they thought a home invasion would play out. In their scenario they’d have the drop on the robbers, who’d never be expecting someone to keep a loaded gun by their bed while sleeping…

            There was so much detail in there that it made me wonder if they actually wanted someone to come into their house so they could have an excuse to kill someone.

            • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              9 个月前

              Oh, yeah. They live for this fantasy. We have an Airstream travel trailer, and there are people in that group that are absolutely certain that someone WILL try to break in sooner or later while they’re camping, and they will be Ready For It.

              I assume they are the same group of people that end up shooting an innocent person that had their car break down at 2 am and just wanted help, or knocked on the door to what they thought was a friend’s house.

              It’s really disturbing how certain they are that this will happen. Too much Fox News, I assume.

          • Verat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9·
            9 个月前

            Most of the ones who aren’t don’t reveal they are gun owners or think about it so much.

          • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
            8·
            9 个月前

            I own guns. Not because I’m scared of anything, but because I inherited one, and my mom has a farm and shooting clay pigeons is fun. Plus, I have to kill a chicken snake for her every so often.

            • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
              6·
              9 个月前

              Seriously, I got a $20 thrower and for a box of ammo and pigeons it’s probably the cheapest way to spend an hour or two.

  • expatriado@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    9 个月前

    The victim told police that before the incident, he was cleaning his firearm

    getting shot by own gun and cleaning it, these often come together, maybe is safer to keep them dirty

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      47·
      9 个月前

      Somehow he was cleaning it and it still had rounds to fire or he cleaned and reloaded and left it unsecured so it had rounds to fire. Sounds like sort of person who should own a gun for sure.

      • LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 个月前

        Not unless you’re really dumb, people accidentally shoot themselves with “unloaded” guns all the time.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 个月前

      Nobody is ever actually shot while “cleaning” their gun. Unloading it is step 1 in this procedure for basically every firearm ever made, and that assessment stretches back several hundred years by now.

      This is just a culturally ingrained lame excuse people pathologically fall back on thinking they’re going to save face over capping their own damn selves with an easily avoidable negligent discharge. And everyone who tries it inevitably thinks they’re the first person to think of it, because they’re stupid.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 个月前

      If you get shot cleaning your gun you have MAJORLY fucked up.

      Like, you have to try to be that level of stupid and it still happens. People are just incredibly dumb it would seem. I mean, I know we must have a ton of morons in this country in order for Trump to get elected because … Everything.

  • j_z@feddit.nuEnglish
    25·
    9 个月前

    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good boy with a gun

      • crandlecan@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        That was heart wrenching to watch. I remember the first time we watched this… The whole family ended up crying their eyeballs out 🥹

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 个月前

      The dogs are rising up in a very calculated slow burn plan!

      Well it’s either that, or come to the realization that guns are dangerous, and should always be treated with care. Always respect the lethal nature they can inflict if mishandled. And admit that casually storing them on your bed is really not a good move.

      Guns don’t kill people.

      Idiots with guns kill people by accident.