No wonder we can't win!

Loosing a gun is embarassing but there is nothing wrong or immoral about it.
If you are trying to tell the public that legal gun owners never cause problems, you are absolutely wrong and stewing in juices into which you have thrown yourself. Obviously they do.
Your arguments are flawed. You should learn a lesson from this, not scapegoat this unfortunate fellow. He is not the cause of anyone's problems but his own.
I agree with the police chief.
 
Sorry USP45 Maybe I went off too soon.
It does seem strange that an elected official would know better.
Having the ability to get a CCW and not having the smarts
to keep up with the gun is a bit much for me to take.
 
I agree the man should be punished. However, I also think it is interesting that we've reached the point where such an event is typified as a 'narrowly averted disaster'.

I think bad policy has helped create such 'disasters'.

If there were no absurd, counter-productive laws that prohibit guns in schools, then I suspect as well that this fellow would have been more forthcoming regarding this missing firearm. [Regardless - he was irresponsible in not reporting the loss.] If children regularly received training regarding firearms, then there would be less concern that the normal response would be that a child would find this firearm, pick it up and sight in on someone. And, if there was less hysteria in general this would be seen as an irresponsible, foolish act that would cause shame and reasonable punishment to fall upon this fellow.

Let's remember something. We have somewhere around 280 million people in this country. People will make mistakes, including you and me. Isolated errors and even tragedies should not be used to sway policy, or public opinion ... if we want to use logic. The problem today is that those who choose 'security' over freedom will use any error, any tragedy and any transgression to justify their continued attacks on liberty. Mature heads should prevail.

Regards from AZ
 
Ahhhh. Thinking outside the box which was built by those that would destroy you.

How refreshing that there are still those who can analyze information beyond the obvious.

Specialist, ya need to cool yer jets and avoid the upper-case. Your obvious anger is clouding your mind. You hate this man for doing something stupid which might be used as fodder to further restrict your rights.

Your claim that I should lose my rights for merely thinking counter to you and having to audacity to post my opinions in a public forum is, well, audacious.

"...if you think losing a gun is not a problem."

Your anger probably caused you to stumble into that strawman argument. I didn't say it wasn't a problem. I did try to draw a distinction between losing a gun and robbing a bank.

If my daughter found the gun, she would have dropped the magazine and cleared the chamber, leaving the slide locked back (unless it was a Browning Hi-Power...small hands have trouble with that one). What would yours have done? Sounds like another push for firearms safety, all around. Including the guy who lost his gun. Did he have it holstered?

Others here can step back and see the incident for what it was: a mistake with no intent to harm, which could have resulted in harm. And they can see that current law makes the situation worse than it was. People afraid to take responsibility due to penalties which are too high on the non-violent; and people of all ages who are not trained because it is politically incorrect.

Rick

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How about if the person who found it got some witnesses then put the story on the news.
Gun Found in School
Then mention an elected official owned it????????????
 
In the spirit of the Bill of Rights, this
persons personal weapon is not really any different than his car keys.

The lost weapon was lost property, and when it was found, it was found property.

All this noise and fury is just hype and smoke screen.

The law that prohibits the carry in the school is contrary to the constitution as are all other gun laws.

Will someone please cite for me a gun law that is *NOT* hostile to the Bill of RIghts?

I'm sure that there are some out there somewhere, I just have never heard of one.

This is a non-issue.
 
How would you guys feel if someone lost a hyperdermic needle there. Loosing your gun is serious. You can't compare it to losing your keys. I guess you guys just don't get it. The world is changing and we have to be more responsible, whether we like it or not. By the way there are too many "conspiracy theorist" on this board.
 
Hmmm. A lost hypodermic needle?

A diabetic drops his kit bag in the auditorium. In it, are his insulin, needles, syringes, swabs, alcohol preps, sugar, maybe?

It is later found.

Despite the terrible danger and afront to safety, he is contacted by phone and his kit bag is returned to him.

If we apply your procedure, we hold him in the county jail for interrogation while he lapses into a diabetic coma.

You sound a little stressed. Go have a beer.

Rick
 
Maybe he did it on purpose. The lengths the liberals will go to know no bounds. Am I being paranoid? Hummm.
 
Hummmm, indeed.

Need I remind you of the Tucson teacher who faked an assault (complete with her shooting herself in the shoulder) to protest the "lack of security" in the highschool.

Some suspect she was also going to sue the pants off the school district. Her husband was beside himself. He didn't even know she had the .38.

Rick
 
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