How else am I supposed to poach deer by shooting them while they're blinded by my headlights if my shotgun isn't loaded?

/s

Literally driving around flagging everyone on the highway. That's insane.

I’m not sure what entirely trying to say here …. At least then the dog would take the idiot out of the gene pool?

But seriously, this is exactly the reason people shouldn’t be allowed to carry weapons. They are more likely to harm or kill innocent people, more likely to escalate violence, than they are to defend themselves from inescapable violence. I get that many people claim the right, and have a foundational document to support it, but what about the victims?

Yeah, if only there were an example of insuring and licensing for some other kind of common deadly consumer product.

I agree. Certainly while in public (e.g. public roads).

That said, I want to say that got proposed in the 90s and somehow the NRA not only defeated it at the federal level, but got congress to ban states from doing it. I could have just imagined that tho.

EDIT: https://sclawreview.org/article/gun-insurance-mandates-and-the-second-amendment/ (summary: there's a couple of laws [one state; one local], that will probably get SCOTUS review eventually, but are on the books for now; it's questionable whether insurance will cut down gun violence.)

I'd expect guns to be at least as regulated as vehicles, but I guess vehicles don't have their own amendment.

Especially because this trash has no money to sue them.

That would just discriminate against poor people and people that live in high crime areas.

The only woman in the story is the victim, who was standing outside the vehicle as it pulled up and the gun blew through the door.

It's interesting to me that nothing is mentioned about the driver/gun owner, and it's written in passive voice as if the vehicle, dog, and gun all acted by themselves. But SOMEONE not only drove to the store with a loaded unsecured shotgun, they also had their unsecured dog with it in the backseat.

Fortunately it appears the door took the brunt and the woman wasn't killed. Maybe the gun and dog should have aimed at the driver's seat.

Good catch; I just assumed.

Negligent as fuck. This person should not own firearms.

Oh well. Guess there's literally nothing that anyone can do 🙄

Note that "highway" in US state law contexts is generally a legal term of art that more or less boils down to meaning "public road." They don't mean highway as in like specifically interstates with on and off ramps.

The intent is that you can bounce around dirt roads on your own farm or private property or possibly on game lands with your gun loaded dangling in your rear window, but not on public roads with other people on them.

You just never know when Moose Lambs are going to helicopter onto the highway, ready to implement Shakira Law!!!

I don't know enough to be sure, and i would imagine it would depends a lot of the year of manufacture and how well it had been maintained. It would probably still be illegal; guns really should be unloaded during transport.

But, even if it did fire, the toolbox is likely a bit more durable than the cab interior. It's meant to have potentially heavy, metal things banging around in there even when driving rough.

It shouldn't need to be enforced or checked any more than putting pants on before going outside.

You get fined and put on a list if you go donaldducking around.

Saying that is a bit like expecting politicians won't be corrupt bcs of some decency & not because of consequences.

We pay taxes to get such things sorted out for us, so we don't have to assemble French street furniture every few years.

(But I'm not exactly saying I know how to police dog gun safety habits.)

I believe the government should have carte blanche to simply bypass constituonal rights that I deem inconvenient rather than following the established process to change them

-- bootlicking authoritarian idiots

Oh I agree, even if it was one with manual safeties I never kept one in the chamber, if I don't have time to rack the slide I don't have time to pull safely.

If you hunt in Europe then that means you’re rich, that’s why it’s even a debate

Accidental gun discharges are pretty rare. In the hundreds a year. And they are almost always with negligent gun owners storing a loaded gun not in a lock box.

It's not a mistake, it's willful ignorance by dumb ass fuck trumpets.

Or like, store them safely and not rig traps and keep them loaded under a dashboard. That would probably drive accidental deaths lower than the current number of ~.0000625% of gun owners involved in an accidental discharge to an even lower number.

do you live in Nebraska? you are welcome to move there and participate in their politics and change the laws.

but I don't think you're interested in doing that.

legally. they are qualified.

according to your feelings? i guess not.

I just figured he was a big fan of the Spin Doctors.

I thought of it as a Julius Caesar reference, but I'll take what I can get, lol.

Getting shotgun blasted by a dog isn't even in the top ten worst things about living in Nebraska.

Source: I'm a Midwestern cultural refugee.

Good thing: potato salad.

Well if you're carrying it for defense it has to be loaded by definition, the attacker never gives you time to load it lol, BUT:

A) Get a handgun and a proper holster, much easier. You can even get a trigger guard, so it's safe(r) if your state has dumb unsafe laws that tell you to leave a loaded gun unsecured flopping around a car, at least the trigger is blocked.

B) If you're married to the unsecured shotgun that then has to be loaded, you can't leave it chambered, or this could happen.

It's dumb either way, for sure, it's complete negligence on their part.

Or chambered.