I don't want to attach a flashlight to a gun. That would make a good target, and if you're holding the gun in front of you it would make it easier for you to be fatally shot. A better way is to hold the flashlight in your other hand and keep it far away from your body to the side. Then, if an attacker shoots at the light, the chance of hitting you is greatly reduced. I want night sights (tritium) on my handgun, but not an attached flashlight. I never have thought that was a good idea. - Old Greybeard
There are intentional shootings and there are negligent shootings. There is no such thing as "accidental".
You see, accident implies that there is no fault, that the situation was unavoidable. Once a person loads- or even picks up, a firearm, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
True it is that there exists negligence without malice, but the absence of malice, or the presence of abject stupidity, does not and cannot remove negligence.
I was nailed by a drunk driver and I despise it when folks call what happened to me "an accident". It wasn't an accident! True there was a crash, but it was no accident. As a society we know full what happens when we get drunk and then drive. I view firearms the exact same way. Picking up a firearm is just like getting behind the wheel. Once you do either, what happens afterward is a known quantity and there are no "accidents". There is only responsibilities for actions taken.
All guns are loaded! Always! Never point one at anything you are not willing to destroy or want to destroy. And like just mentioned, there are no accidents, only responsibility for action---whether intended or not. Now, the sad thing here is our society has been pussyfied to the point where it's mandatory to blame anything else or anyone else instead of having the personal character of accepting responsibility.
Rail mounted lights have a place & time. Try explaining to a jury of your peers that you shot your neighbors drunk kid because he accidentally broke into your dark house at 3:00 AM thinking it was his (when he lost his key) and you didn't identify him before shooting. Yeah...that's not gonna fly.
In fact, shooting at anyone you can't positively identify as a threat is morally wrong and criminally negligent.
There's no good reason not to have a light on your weapon and no ND could ever be legitimately blamed on a weapons mounted light. Fingers on triggers kill people...period. A weapons mounted light allows you the best control of both the light and the weapon. Like anything else, you need to practice using it under the same environmental, (read that as dark) conditions.
Cops shoot people negligently everyday. The light is just another excuse. And this 'I'm just making myself a target' BS is uneducated parroting from keyboard commandos who don't know jack.
'There are intentional shootings and there are negligent shootings. There is no such thing as "accidental".'
Anyone who thinks clearly about it would agree with you, and that is one of my points.
I used a post title that is exactly the same as the article I cited. Strategy - be an effective counterbalance to the MSM. As for tactics?
If you use the same post title and get enough page views, Google gives your article more authority than the original one cited. Thus, anyone searching on those words goes to your article first, with all of the admonitions and analysis, before they go to the Denver Post.
No,you've got it wrong. The CHANCES of having an accident go up drastically while drunk, distracted, texting, sleepy, on prescription meds, talking on the cell phone, talking while driving, etc.
Most of the time, people engage in all of these behaviors and no accident results. No rights are violated and no property is damaged.
IF someone's rights are violated; IF someone's property is damage....then they are negligent.
Not before.
We, as a society need to understand the very basic concept of the real, true purpose of law and government: to protect individual rights and provide redress when those rights are infringed.
The reason we have so many laws is b/c we are trying to give "temporal security" in exchange for liberty. In short, no victim, no crime. Punish the behavior...punish the act that infringes someones rights b/c punishing/penalizing to try and shape behavior or to try and prevent behavior from happening never results in anything more than loss of liberty. If it truly worked, drunk driving would cease...and it has not, even in states like mine with extremely stiff mandatory DWI sentences.
Accidental Discharges do occur....but they are EXTREMELY rare. They don't fall into the category listed in this article...but they are weapon malfunctions or poorly engineered designs or incorrectly loaded ammunition. Slam fires and protruding primers are examples.
As with just about anything in life, the word "never" or "no such thing as" is usually not accurate.
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I was taught the old fashioned way - mounting a light on a weapon does nothing more than show the bad guy where to shoot for effect.
I don't want to attach a flashlight to a gun. That would make a good target, and if you're holding the gun in front of you it would make it easier for you to be fatally shot. A better way is to hold the flashlight in your other hand and keep it far away from your body to the side. Then, if an attacker shoots at the light, the chance of hitting you is greatly reduced. I want night sights (tritium) on my handgun, but not an attached flashlight. I never have thought that was a good idea.
- Old Greybeard
There are intentional shootings and there are negligent shootings. There is no such thing as "accidental".
You see, accident implies that there is no fault, that the situation was unavoidable. Once a person loads- or even picks up, a firearm, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
True it is that there exists negligence without malice, but the absence of malice, or the presence of abject stupidity, does not and cannot remove negligence.
I was nailed by a drunk driver and I despise it when folks call what happened to me "an accident". It wasn't an accident! True there was a crash, but it was no accident. As a society we know full what happens when we get drunk and then drive. I view firearms the exact same way. Picking up a firearm is just like getting behind the wheel. Once you do either, what happens afterward is a known quantity and there are no "accidents". There is only responsibilities for actions taken.
All guns are loaded! Always!
Never point one at anything you are not willing to destroy or want to destroy.
And like just mentioned, there are no accidents, only responsibility for action---whether intended or not.
Now, the sad thing here is our society has been pussyfied to the point where it's mandatory to blame anything else or anyone else instead of having the personal character of accepting responsibility.
Rail mounted lights have a place & time. Try explaining to a jury of your peers that you shot your neighbors drunk kid because he accidentally broke into your dark house at 3:00 AM thinking it was his (when he lost his key) and you didn't identify him before shooting. Yeah...that's not gonna fly.
In fact, shooting at anyone you can't positively identify as a threat is morally wrong and criminally negligent.
There's no good reason not to have a light on your weapon and no ND could ever be legitimately blamed on a weapons mounted light. Fingers on triggers kill people...period. A weapons mounted light allows you the best control of both the light and the weapon. Like anything else, you need to practice using it under the same environmental, (read that as dark) conditions.
Cops shoot people negligently everyday. The light is just another excuse. And this 'I'm just making myself a target' BS is uneducated parroting from keyboard commandos who don't know jack.
'There are intentional shootings and there are negligent shootings. There is no such thing as "accidental".'
Anyone who thinks clearly about it would agree with you, and that is one of my points.
I used a post title that is exactly the same as the article I cited. Strategy - be an effective counterbalance to the MSM. As for tactics?
If you use the same post title and get enough page views, Google gives your article more authority than the original one cited. Thus, anyone searching on those words goes to your article first, with all of the admonitions and analysis, before they go to the Denver Post.
Strategy and tactics. Think big.
To the anon poster hit by a drunk driver....
No,you've got it wrong. The CHANCES of having an accident go up drastically while drunk, distracted, texting, sleepy, on prescription meds, talking on the cell phone, talking while driving, etc.
Most of the time, people engage in all of these behaviors and no accident results. No rights are violated and no property is damaged.
IF someone's rights are violated; IF someone's property is damage....then they are negligent.
Not before.
We, as a society need to understand the very basic concept of the real, true purpose of law and government: to protect individual rights and provide redress when those rights are infringed.
The reason we have so many laws is b/c we are trying to give "temporal security" in exchange for liberty. In short, no victim, no crime. Punish the behavior...punish the act that infringes someones rights b/c punishing/penalizing to try and shape behavior or to try and prevent behavior from happening never results in anything more than loss of liberty. If it truly worked, drunk driving would cease...and it has not, even in states like mine with extremely stiff mandatory DWI sentences.
Accidental Discharges do occur....but they are EXTREMELY rare. They don't fall into the category listed in this article...but they are weapon malfunctions or poorly engineered designs or incorrectly loaded ammunition. Slam fires and protruding primers are examples.
As with just about anything in life, the word "never" or "no such thing as" is usually not accurate.
Trying out a new purchase on a loaded pistol is not a good idea, either:
http://www.bradenton.com/2014/06/09/5196078/manatee-man-accidentally-shot.html?sp=/99/179/186/
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