Discussion: Georgia Teen Accidentally Shot And Killed On Father-Son Fishing Trip

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I hope the dad remembers to tell everyone that his son died with his FREEDOM! Yeah! We certainly don’t have to worry about anyone learning a lesson from any of this, so at least the pressure’s off!

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It always brakes my heart to read stories of children being shot and killed. I prefer the stories (not that it makes it better but they are easier to deal with) of the child accidentally shooting the parent. At least in that way the one responsible for having the gun in the first place is the one that is injured.

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Well of course. You can’t defend yourself with just a shotgun, every NRA rep knows that. If this man had an AR-15, and maybe a few flash grenades, THEN his kid would have been safe.

As the GOP always says, the solution to safety is always more guns. No matter the situation or the facts on the grounds, if this father had just had more guns around, that bullet wouldn’t have ripped through his son’s body. Makes sense to me !!

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fishing trip, wild hog, gun? sounds like a great day of fishing. Good thing the bullet didn’t hit the dynamite box, would have killed everybody. To bad for the teen, he will never fish again courtesy of a very stupid father. No second chance on this one.

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Weapons aren’t harmless just because they belong to you.

They’re like a rattlesnake just waiting for you to be careless, as this man obviously was. It’s too bad his son had to die in order for this man to learn that, if indeed he did learn anything.

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Cue the banjo playing TAPS. The operative words here are “gross negligence.”

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One of my favorite lines from a movie ever, from Legend of Boggy Creek, went something like this:

“Herb Jones limps because he shot half his foot off in a boating accident.”

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Wild hogs attack folks in boats?
Jump on 'em out of trees?

The folks in the boat are trying to cut down on the ‘Pig-Squealing’?

/s

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Being lackadaisical about gun safety leads to a lot of tragic accidents like this one. Why wasn’t the safety on, why was there a bullet in the chamber. I’m sure those are questions that will haunt the Father for the rest of his life. My condolences to the family.

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Were they NRA members? Because the NRA is supposed to be all about gun safety. Or at least it used to be before it became a political organization lobbying for gun manufacturers under the guise of Second Amendment rights.

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Man, if only we had an ad campaign about that.

I assume there’s video evidence that this guy didn’t just shoot his son because he wanted him dead?

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Was thinking the same thing.

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At this rate, the repubs will eventually all shoot each other, and we’ll have a lot of ownerless guns sitting around.

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Let’s do a little supposition.

I open a second story window on my house. I stick a rifle on it. I make sure it’s got a hair trigger. It’s basically pintle-mounted so it can swivel however. It’s very well lubricated and carefully balanced. As cars and trucks go by the ground shakes just a teeny tiny bit. And so the rifle’s aim changes constantly. It’s basically randomly tracking across an area in front of my house.

Eventually the gun goes off. Maybe it kills someone. Maybe it doesn’t.

If it goes off and kills someone should I in any way be held responsible? Or is it an “accident” since I didn’t particularly want it to kill the person who actually got shot?

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Top Five States With the Most Careless Firearms Incidents on TPM in 2014:

Pennsylvania / Texas (tied) - 8
South Carolina / Florida (tied) - 5
Arizona / California/ Georgia/ Indiana/ Michigan/ Ohio (tied) - 3
12 Other States (tied) - 2
13 Other States (tied) - 1

35 States Total

States Not Listed On TPM Yet:

Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Iowa
Louisiana
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Nevada
New Mexico
Hawaii

15 States Total

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Is the rifle OK? Will it need treatment before it can shoot [and kill] again? Maybe just a good cleaning?

Was the successful rifle returned to the incompetent owners so it can kill another family member?

Does that state require a notch to be engraved on the rifle stock for each death? Or is it optional?

Because FreeDumb. Another case of negligent manslaughter being forgiven as “an accident”.

WTF, O?

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Remember, guns don’t kill people, until they do.

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It’s a choice they make. A bad choice.

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If it had been someone’s dog, and that dog had killed the kid, that dog would be destroyed.

Can’t do that to a gun though, huh?

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