I really think your point would be stronger without all the insults and labels and snark. Perhaps substitute a realistic law or regulation that would prevent more incidents like this? Every gun show I've ever attended prohibited loaded weapons on site except for on-duty LEOs.

The shooter clearly was not a "responsible gun owner". He violated several show regulations and may have violated state law.

From the various articles I've read, it appears he didn't properly clear his gun. The magazine was removed but he forgot about the round in the chamber. An error people sometimes make when unloading a semi-auto. The second mistake he made was not checking to see if the gun was unloaded before he used it to show the woman how it fitted in the holster and the third mistake he made was pointing the gun at the woman instead of a safe direction.

it is against the rules to load the weapons that are for sale to be demonstrated for customers. It is obvious this guy was not being responsible. Do not lie about the facts.

"Police said Hawk told them he had left the gun on display when he completed background checks on some customers and believes it's possible someone loaded the gun when he was busy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/gun-show-shooting_n_5542670.html

but of course before handling the gun he should have checked to see if it was loaded. If did not, then he was not being responsible.

Even if the gun is in a box right from the factory.

I was recently at my brother's house. He's a retired cop but got a job with the U.S. Marshal's office. They issued him a gun and he was showing it to me and my father. He handed it to me and I asked him why he didn't rack the slide to show me it was unloaded. He said he did it in the other room (I believe him) and that he should have done it in front of me. He then did it again. He handed it to me and I did it as well. Overkill? I don't think it's possible.

is a recurring meme amongst the pro-control crown. It appears some think it is the height of cleverness. You never hear "responsible driver backs over 5 year old" or "responsible electrician electrocutes himself". Clearly this guy was not a "responsible gun owner" due to the incident. Attempting to label him as such appears to be a back-door way of conducting a broad-brush smear of all gun owners.

He may well have been a very responsible gun owner prior to that day when he ignored gun show rules prohibiting loaded guns and also violated safety rules he himself taught to many of his students.

2. Never let the muzzle point at anything you don't want to destroy
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Know your target and what is beyond it.

blueridge: Why lie? The shooter clearly was not a "responsible gun owner". He violated several show regulations and may have violated state law.

Duh, happens regularly at gunshows, only without negative consequence; this one is the tip of the iceberg since it resulted in a gunshot wound.
Blueridge demonstrates the nra view - up to the minute the infraction is committed the shooter was a largo (law abiding responsible gun owner), but then gets thrown under the bus after the fact.
Should his right to keep & bear arms be infringed upon now? now that he's an irresponsible gun owner?

donp: That's the number 1 rule - "All guns are always loaded"
2. Never let the muzzle point at anything you don't want to destroy
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Know your target and what is beyond it.

You'd need remind largos of this thousands of times daily, & stiil wouldn't do much good.
Doesnt' work very well with eddie eagle graduates either.

Maybe #5 is needed for gunnuts:
#5 Always check to see whether a bullet is in the chamber by looking down the front of the barrel.

Might save somebody's life someday.

You have stats to back this claim up?

up to the minute the infraction is committed the shooter was a largo (law abiding responsible gun owner)

As is everyone until the first time they screw up royally. Yet you don't hear "responsible driver backs over 5 year old"

Should his right to keep & bear arms be infringed upon now? now that he's an irresponsible gun owner?

Don't know about his right to keep arms, that would depend on whether he is convicted of a felony or domestic violence misdemeanor that would, after due process of law, remove his right to own a firearm. I could see removing his Carry Permit due to the incident.

But he'll take 1500 horribly-parsed words to say it...

My reading comprehensions skills are, clearly, lacking. Probably because I am a "gun-humping", "tiny-penis" "Ammosexual". Or a closeted racist, Randy Weaver apologist who can't be trusted with a bicycle tire or can of beans, much less a firearm.

and "Second Amendmented"...



Sure signs of desperation by the side that is losing the war for support of their mission to repeal the second amendment and disarm everybody but the police and military.

Bad idea.

has a bit of bigoted ring. (I don't think the OP is alluding to bias on the basis of sexual orientation, but there is a questionable alliteration not found in the more pedestrian "gun humper" and other penis metaphor.)

That's as far as I needed to read...it the writer doesn't understand basic SD platforms why bother reading any further.

A first ballot shoo-in for the Trying Too Hard Hall of fame...