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Please tell me who among you would approve what you see int the picture below....One boy was loaning the other his truck for Prom....the other was explaining what would happen if the truck came back damaged..... An body think this is cute and funny....Please let me know.

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I never think that pointing a gun at anyone is cute or funny. Ever.

If I point a gun at anyone it is done for a reason and in deadly seriousness, not as a joke.

Jim
 
Finger on the trigger too. Bunch of redneck yahoos with no form of training... Much less professional training. Nothing cute or cheeky at all about it.

And I grew up on a tobacco farm. If anyone has earned the right to call someone else a redneck yahoo, I have.
 
With friends like that, who needs enemies?

He has no business being in possession of a firearm if he believes that is ok behavior.

His friend there, that's just Darwinism waiting to work its magic. He's standing there letting his "friend" point a gun at him for a photo op..
 
A couple of ridiculous knuckleheads. Where the hell are their dads to box their ears and send them back to the room without supper. :confused:

My 11 y.o. has more gun sense than those 2.
Not to mention it portrays our sport negatively.
 
Idiots like these arent the majority of gun owners, but they sure aren't a tiny percentage either. I only shoot at my range in the early morning or on a weekday. Never a weekend. I shoot alone or I don't shoot. Too many idiots out there. And most of them have been "trained" by equally stupid people.

Personally, I think these fools should be tracked down and have their rights to own a weapon permanently revoked. And so should anybody else who handles a firearm in an unsafe way. How many people every year get shot because of reckless behavior?

I'm sure they would say "I checked and it's unloaded". How many others have said that before a BANG! I once got into a fistfight with one of my best friends. We were young cops and my friend pointed his .38 at me. We had just bought them and we both knew it was unloaded. I told him if he ever points a gun at me again he's gonna get punched in the face. He said "now you're making it a dare like I have to do it again". I said I wasn't joking and not to do it. He looked at me and then pointed it back at me. I punched him dead in the face. We rolled around for a while before it was broken up. I didn't see him for a couple of years but we reconnected and have remained friends ever since. Guess he just needed to grow up a bit. We were dumb kids then.
 
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NO!
It is NOT funny!

I stand by the concept that unless you are in fear of death or grave bodily harm, or detaining a suspected felon that has or may exhibit violence toward you and those around you, there is NO excuse for pointing a firearm at another human being.

This is not the stuff of games or humor.

... Just my opinion
 
Anyone who approves of this picture or thinks it's funny is an idiot who doesn't have the first clue about gun safety or gun handling.
 
Dumb. Who took the picture? Also, how old is the kid with the gun? 21? If not, why does he even have a handgun?
 
In the majority. Nothing funny, unsafe in the extreme.

I would be interested to know why the inquiry; is this a picture you found on the internet, or are you one of the people in the picture?
 
I think that they're actually very safety conscious, and the gun is the pic is probably a non-working Hollywood prop gun.

No different then any of the hundreds of movies and TV shows with people pointing guns and shooting each other all the time.
 
Taken at face value, this is certainly idiotic. I don't mean to defend or condone the action; however, in two dimensions, it's hard to see where the muzzle is actually pointed. It could easily be angled away from the other person, toward the camera. Still, it presents a very bad perception.
 
I've looked at the photo again. I don't think its real for a couple of reasons:

1. Look at the lighting on the kid's face and then on the guy holding the gun - the shadowing clearly indicates the sunlight coming from two different directions.

2. Look at the distortion on the kid's neck where the gun guy is grabbing it. If this were accurate, there's no way he'd be smiling like that.

I think this picture is a hoax.
 
It's a real photo Skans. The shadows are consistent, just follow what's causing the shadows. Nothing odd about the neck. No inconsistency with texture or outline. No reason for anyone to fake it anyway.

Each year hundreds of people in the U.S. die from accidents, usually irresponsible behavior, with guns. Some from fooling around just as these young men are doing.

tipoc
 
Well, after being finished crapping my pants wondering what the actual hell they were doing I would have to say this is not at all funny. I've seen pictures like this before especially prom pictures with dads. Holding a gun in the background can be one with but pointing it at someone is absolutely unacceptable and gives gun owners a bad image.
 
The first thing to teach folks is Cooper's 4 basic rules and why they are there.

1. Treat all firearms as if they are loaded all the time.

2. Never point a firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger till you are ready to shoot.

4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

tipoc
 
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