re: #155 Dark_Falcon

Eh, I’d just list Patrick Daniel Garrett (that gun accident’s victim) as a Darwin Award nominee and move on.

Look, it’s all too easy to have a little chuckle at morons killing themselves through stupidity and move on. And it’s certainly true that idiots can kill themselves without guns.

But just like every other death and injury involving guns, the guns make it many, many times easier. That’s why they exist. And only in the US where guns are more important than humans do people not sit up and say, you know, we can’t stop people being dumb, but hasn’t anyone noticed that we have an awful, awful lot of people doing dumb things with deadly weapons, and causing untold numbers of totally unnecessary deaths and injuries every day?

Every death and injury carries with it costs. Medical costs, social costs, societal costs. This idiot had friends and family. They, and he, now pay the price for a culture that treats guns as toys, fashion accessories, and religious icons.