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In reply to the discussion: Restaurant rethinking allowing concealed weapons after customer shot [View all]EOTE
(13,409 posts)43. So what you've said is utterly worthless.
It would have been even more help if the idiot never had a gun to begin with. Armchair quarterbacking is useless in these situations. Only sensible laws passed with regard to guns would help (while fully acknowledging that quite a few gun owners are idiots like the one referenced above).
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proud2BlibKansan
Jan 2013
OP
"He reached in his pocket and accidentally discharged a weapon in his pocket"
rightsideout
Jan 2013
#3
Damn. I am glad that I don't live in Kansas, Oklahoma or the South. As a result, I
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#85
What I don't think you realize is that I carry a legally concealed weapon as a ....
spin
Jan 2013
#80
I get it! Idiots with guns in public with HOLSTERS! And everything will magically be fine forever.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#14
Unless you mandate the use of such holsters, what you've said is fairly worthless.
EOTE
Jan 2013
#39
There ARE no current laws that would have prevented that idiot from shooting his wife.
EOTE
Jan 2013
#46
It might have helped if the idiot in question weren't an idiot in the first place.
Bake
Jan 2013
#48
You have to pull the trigger? Now why didn't someone explain that to us a long time ago!
A Simple Game
Jan 2013
#33
No, the gun went off because the idiot was carrying it and was too stupid to keep his hands off.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#65
It may take a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun, but how do you stop
jmg257
Jan 2013
#42
If a restaurant allows concealed weapons, how're they going to know one way or the other?
Buns_of_Fire
Jan 2013
#47