Idiot

It’s almost a cliché for gun bloggers to go on self-righteous rants after negligent discharges. And it’s one of those kind of things I’ve always tried to avoid doing. But then some idiot handed a loaded gun to prospective buyer at the Tanner Gun Show over the weekend and one of them ended up in the hospital. Details are sketchy; the following is from the Denver Post:

Adams County sheriff’s deputies responded to the Tanner Gun Show at the Denver Merchandise Mart at Interstate 25 and 58th Ave. around 2 p.m. Saturday after a man was shot in the upper torso. The victim was transported to Denver Health Medical Center, where his condition was unknown.

Saturday afternoon investigators were interviewing “numerous witnesses,” the gun’s vendor and the “person holding the gun at the time of the discharge,” said Sgt. Candi Baker with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

“They were just looking at a gun,” Baker said.

Russ Huntley , who was inside the gun show Saturday, told 9News he had heard someone had been shot in the shoulder and “there was blood all over the floor.”

This is the kind of shit that anti-gun nuts love to point at as a reason to ban guns. It pisses me off to no end. Not least of which because the Tanner Gun Show is a ten minute drive from my house, and I stop in almost every time it’s in town to buy ammunition, parts, magazines, or just to say hello to folks, and I often bring my kids. In fact, I was thinking of being down there with them on Saturday to buy a better belt for my holster, but got tied up doing other things.

This probably goes without saying, but if you don’t have the basic mental wherewithal to follow these four simple rules, you shouldn’t handle guns. Do us all a favor and stay the fuck home. You can be a lazy, sloppy, stupid piece of shit with your Wiimote, but let’s leave anything more dangerous to those of us who can hold saliva in our mouths without undue concentration.