adam40cal
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I was thinking last night about an event I had when I was 16, and I thought I'd share it with everyone and get a few responses from people with gun safety on their mind.
I was 16, and just got my drivers license; my brother was seeing this girl that lived in the next town over. In order to get to this other town you had to drive through the country for 10 miles. Both towns are very safe places to live in they haven't had a violent crime in years during this time.
Well I on the way back from hanging out with this girl my brother had a thing for I ended up hitting some black ice (it was winter time) and loosing control of my truck and slamming it side ways into a ditch. My brother was fine but I got knocked out for a minute and had a big cut above my eye from hitting the steering wheel so I was kinda out of it.
This happened at about 8:30pm on a Friday and we had no cell phone at the time, and we were out in the middle of no where. I was just gonna walk home but my brother insisted on going to a house to call the police because I was banged up real good and he was worried I got hurt worse then I was telling him.
So we walked up to this house and gently knocked on the door. About 2 minutes later an older guy about in his 50's opened the door with a major attitude problem. He said what the hell do you want? As my brother started to explain to him what happened (the guy could see my truck smashed and in the ditch it was only 60 yards from his front porch granted) when they guys says can't you see what I have? Me and my brother didn't see anything at first we just wanted to use a phone to get some help. I looked at the mans hand and he had a loaded pistol with his finger on the trigger pointed right at us! Needless to say I was instantly pissed off on how this man was treating us like criminals even after we told our story. Now everyone needs to remember I was just in a car accident and had blood pouring out of the cut I had above my eye which made it real hard to see.
Just then his wife who was a very nice person started yelling at the guy to put that damn gun away their just kids that are hurt asking for help! The lady let me use her phone, and my mom came and picked us up; we walked down to my totaled truck to wait for her. We told our home what happened and she snapped and called the police not just about the accident but about that nut job old man pulling and point a gun at us.
Now everyone needs to remember this is not a place where there was crime and we were just kids being very polite to these people.
This is were it gets kinda weird ; the police show up and we tell them about the old man.. The cop didn't even go to that guys house to speak with him about what he did.
I can understand having a pistol ready in case its needed, but pointing a loaded firearm at people with your finger on the trigger when they are not showing to be a threat is messed up! I think about this incident all the time and think what if?
So the point of this little story is there is a time and place to bring a firearm into play, and trust me this was not one of them! This guy broke every gun safety rule I've ever learned.
To some it may sound like this guy had a good reason to have his gun out, but if you were there you'd realize he had no excuse because we were not a threat to this guy at all. We simply needed to use a phone to call for help.
I was thinking last night about an event I had when I was 16, and I thought I'd share it with everyone and get a few responses from people with gun safety on their mind.
I was 16, and just got my drivers license; my brother was seeing this girl that lived in the next town over. In order to get to this other town you had to drive through the country for 10 miles. Both towns are very safe places to live in they haven't had a violent crime in years during this time.
Well I on the way back from hanging out with this girl my brother had a thing for I ended up hitting some black ice (it was winter time) and loosing control of my truck and slamming it side ways into a ditch. My brother was fine but I got knocked out for a minute and had a big cut above my eye from hitting the steering wheel so I was kinda out of it.
This happened at about 8:30pm on a Friday and we had no cell phone at the time, and we were out in the middle of no where. I was just gonna walk home but my brother insisted on going to a house to call the police because I was banged up real good and he was worried I got hurt worse then I was telling him.
So we walked up to this house and gently knocked on the door. About 2 minutes later an older guy about in his 50's opened the door with a major attitude problem. He said what the hell do you want? As my brother started to explain to him what happened (the guy could see my truck smashed and in the ditch it was only 60 yards from his front porch granted) when they guys says can't you see what I have? Me and my brother didn't see anything at first we just wanted to use a phone to get some help. I looked at the mans hand and he had a loaded pistol with his finger on the trigger pointed right at us! Needless to say I was instantly pissed off on how this man was treating us like criminals even after we told our story. Now everyone needs to remember I was just in a car accident and had blood pouring out of the cut I had above my eye which made it real hard to see.
Just then his wife who was a very nice person started yelling at the guy to put that damn gun away their just kids that are hurt asking for help! The lady let me use her phone, and my mom came and picked us up; we walked down to my totaled truck to wait for her. We told our home what happened and she snapped and called the police not just about the accident but about that nut job old man pulling and point a gun at us.
Now everyone needs to remember this is not a place where there was crime and we were just kids being very polite to these people.
This is were it gets kinda weird ; the police show up and we tell them about the old man.. The cop didn't even go to that guys house to speak with him about what he did.
I can understand having a pistol ready in case its needed, but pointing a loaded firearm at people with your finger on the trigger when they are not showing to be a threat is messed up! I think about this incident all the time and think what if?
So the point of this little story is there is a time and place to bring a firearm into play, and trust me this was not one of them! This guy broke every gun safety rule I've ever learned.
To some it may sound like this guy had a good reason to have his gun out, but if you were there you'd realize he had no excuse because we were not a threat to this guy at all. We simply needed to use a phone to call for help.