Detroit Woman Dead After Hugging

[dales]

Then wanting to walk around with one just sounds really idiotic and insecure IMO.

Different cultural views, I expect.

Perhaps he has a small penis?

[Crackpot]

He's required to.

[Joe Guy]

When a gun is registered in California they measure your penis if you're a man. I'm not sure what they do with women.

[Sue U]

If only we all lived in Mayberry.

If we did, it would be one really big city.

[Joe Guy]

Even Mayberry wasn't completely safe....

[BoSoxGal]

True, Sue U! I should have said, 'a version of' Mayberry.

And people wonder why I choose to live in a small, rural Montana city.

I'm not saying that horrible things don't happen in our towns/cities, but they are far fewer and further between, and nothing on the kind of scale such as the horror in Aurora, CO this day.

It is much harder for mentally ill and/or psychopathic individuals to hide in the fishbowl of small-town life.

My first week in Washington, DC - orientation week at Georgetown Law, 1997 - ended with an invite to dinner at a classmate's Silver Spring apartment. I remember the day as clear as it were yesterday; I walked in muggy August weather from my rowhouse apartment on 6th St. SE, Capitol Hill, to Union Station to catch the Metro (at the time I was too newbie to realize the Eastern Market station was much closer).

Just as I approached Union Station, gunshots rang out. A man had just murdered his ex-GF in front of the station, shooting at her in the midst of numerous innocent passersby. I saw the grisly, bloody crime unfold before my very eyes.

The next three years were very much a struggle for me; I am not in my element in crime ridden big cities.

[loCAtek]

None of the Glocks have safeties

[dales]

Uhm, no..............................http://us.glock.com/technology/safe-action

[loCAtek]

'Cha, but not the safety lever, that so many feel the need to flip.

[dales]

I don't use the safety at all on my automatic.

When I rack the slide, I'm ready to go.

btw: I'd much rather have a .357 mag revolver, no money.

[liberty]

My god guys this tragedy should have never happened; there are grief stricken parents because of something that should have never happened. My study of safety thought me that ninety five prcent of all accidents are avoidable. If his gun’s safety had been on and had been holstered correctly the girl would still be alive. Either the officer or the police department is guilty of negligence; I am inclined to think it is the department.

Guns without safeties; this is not the nineteenth century; such guns should be in display cases,
Preferably in museums........

Can’t hang around this library, got to get back on the roads.

[Jarlaxle]

Do you know ANYTHING about firearms? I thought not. If you did, you would understand WHY some have no safeties.

[liberty]

Do you know ANYTHING about firearms? I thought not. If you did, you would understand WHY some have no safeties.

Ok it appears that I have fixed my computer.

I know a little about guns, but I would be happy for you to tell me why some don’t have safeties.

[Lord Jim]

Even Mayberry wasn't completely safe....

Ernest T is one of my all time favorite TV characters...

(Trivia factoid: the actor who played Bass, Howard Morris, also provided the voice for the Koala bear on those classic Qantas commercials...)

But I wouldn't want to live in Mayberry....

It was a dry town....

[oldr_n_wsr]

It was a dry town....

Otis seemed to be able to find plenty of alcohol.