• grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    67·
    6 hours ago

    obligatory firearm safety reminder:

    • rule one is “keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire”
    • rule two is “never point the weapon at anything you are not willing to destroy”
    • rule three is “always treat any weapon as though it is loaded”
    • rule four is “know your target and what lays beyond it”

    only by holding each other accountable can we make sure that everyone stays safe and has fun.

    • jali67@lemmy.zip
      2·
      11 minutes ago

      Yeah you expect the American public to abide by the rules and make smart choices?

    • FlihpFlorp@piefed.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 hours ago

      My grandpa who takes me shooting was going over the firearm safety rules and with rule two I was like “that seems extreme” and his response it’s supposed to be, a gun killing or injuring or damaging isn’t as vivid as the word destroy

      And yeah for me the other rules kinda seemed a given, bullets move fast and possibly through our hanging rubber targets, the gun probably can’t fire if you don’t give it a squeeze, and as for loaded better safe than sorry.

      These rules seemed almost obvious to me, and yet there’s all these guys at the range behaving like absolute idiots