Do gun owners ever feel guilty after a gun accident involving their gun?

[Sava]

Look, Sava - even the good doctor agrees with you that pools are more dangerous than guns to children.

Numbers don't lie. Only people. People are entitled to their opinions. People are entitled to be wrong.

[Sava]

Seems relevant:

Allowing college students and faculty to carry guns on campus makes everybody safer, right?

If you answered that the way the NRA does, then maybe consider what just happened at Idaho State University on Tuesday afternoon: A professor with a concealed carry permit was wounded when the gun he had in his pocket accidentally went off. According to local news outlet KIDK, the professor (who hasn't been identified at this point) was in the middle of teaching class when he literally shot himself in the foot:

Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Public Safety received a call about an accidental discharge of a concealed weapon in the Physical Science building. A student said the gun went off in the middle of the class.

Police said the small-caliber handgun was in the professor's pants pocket and was not displayed at any time. They said the professor was able to leave of his own accord. He was treated and released from the hospital.

In March, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed a bill into law allowing permit holders to bring their guns onto public college and university campuses, despite polls showing overwhelming opposition from students and education leaders in the state. As the Idaho Statesman noted at the time, "Aside from perhaps agriculture, the NRA is the most powerful interest group in the Idaho Republican Party."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/idaho-professor-shoots-self-guns-campus

(sorry for the source, couldn't be helped)

[The Mad Monk]

So you're ceding the pools argument, right?

[snoopy369]

I think it's hard to argue that pools kill fewer young kids than guns.

I also think that nuclear weapons are more dangerous than pools, so we shouldn't worry about pools.

[Aeson]

Pools kill more people than nuclear weapons.

[Kidlicious]

Nukes are safe

[Boris Godunov]

I own neither guns nor kids, so I'm all set.

But I have been to a shooting range so I could learn the basics of firing a gun. I want to at least know what to do so that when civilization crumbles and I can ably defend my homestead from the leather daddy biker gangs.

[The Mad Monk]

I should hope you don't own kids.

If you don't practice handling and shooting guns, however, all you're doing if you pick one up is bumping yourself up the target list.

[Boris Godunov]

I should hope you don't own kids.

How else would I obtain them? Besides being errand-runners, lawn-mowers and snack-obtainers, I don't see a use for them.

[The Mad Monk]

You should always rent. Otherwise, it's too much like work.

[Dr Strangelove]

I wonder if Florida will pass a law forbidding physicians from talking to parents about pool safety?

[Sava]

I wonder if Florida will pass a law forbidding physicians from talking to parents about pool safety?

It's hard to say. The debate still rages.

[Hauldren Collider]

We could fill the pools with guns and make them safer

It would be significantly harder to drown.

[Kidlicious]

Someone doesn't get enough Fun.

[Sava]

HC had fun once. He didn't like it.