Let it be known that I think Interventions, in my case, are a really bad idea. If I ever have a problem that my friends feel I’m not giving enough weight to in my thoughts, they can just come talk to me. If I ever enter a room to a surprise “intervention”, I’m grabbing a baseball bat and swinging wildly until they all run away.
So the Head Cold fairy got me good on Monday. Sucked, because I had plans this week, and had to cancel. Managed to struggle through Monday at work, but today (Tuesday) was a wash – I could barely get out of bed. Thankfully, I already had enough comics done that I didn’t have to do any Monday night.
This has not been a great year so far. But hey, at least it will likely improve! Whee!
Pretty good video here. I like the cut of this guy’s jib.
reminds me of always sunny in phili, intervention with a gun
Comic: Mick has got to think these things through!
Interventions: I never understood them. Consider this, though. If your friend come at you in groups, they needed backup.
Video: He missed “don’t fire your weapon into the air,” but covered the key points. I liked his matter of fact take in jackassery.
I knew it was a video but I still found myself shifting in my seat to get out of the LOF when he pointed at the camera.
Also if anyone has a minute and want’s a good laugh… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixhsuB6xMR8
Make sure to read the video description for back ground story:
“A citizen speaks to the City Council in opposition to a local “loaded carry” ban ordinance one of the Councilors has brought for consideration. No facts, figures, statistics, or other evidence of any existing problem has been presented by the sponsoring Councilor. She has however, made emotional pleas to “protect the children”, dropped the “Sandy Hook” tragedy as supporting gun regulation, and other such bullshit.
She actually said “I know there are statistics out there but I didn’t look them up”
I’m reminded of the old truism.
“The problem with political jokes is that all too often they get elected.” – Will Rogers?
Sadly too many people are swayed by the emotional aspect, and rarely look at things logically. Conservatives do it too, just different illogical emotions. OOOOooo Scary evil drug addicts…
At any rate, I wouldn’t doubt that she thought the argument was the best out there. Appeal to the heartstrings of the people. Anyone who still wants guns after Sandy Hook is an evil monster who wants to murder children, you know.
“Because I don’t have the brainpower or the inclination to understand what they actually prove, or to put them into context.”
Now I see that there’s something worse than cherry-picking statistics to support your case: not bothering with them at all.
“My mind’s made up. Don’t bother me with facts.”
I’m on a laptop, i started doing this then realized that because it’s on my lap it seems to be pointing at me no matter what. I can’t move enough because when i start moving to much the laptop just follows me around.
The weapon was shown to be empty, it was a video and I still wanted to tell him get that thing outta my face.
Can’t blame you. I felt uncomfortable, even if I legitimately had no reason.
But you know what? It’s the right reaction. Even if it’s virtual, the image of a firearm pointed in your direction should always instinctively mean “Bad news”. I think of it as a way to stay sharp if it ever happens for real.
I think that’s the exact reason he did it. You know it’s unloaded, you know it can’t hurt you, but even so? We find ourselves uncomfortable before it. So you have to think about what happens if you* point a firearm at someone in life, and how they will feel. They will likely not know it isn’t loaded. They will know, it can hurt them, likely kill them.
* You is meant in the general descriptive state of those who many point a firearm at people; the people he was talking about in the video. Not you, Bjornfrie.
Love the comic but never commented before. The guy in the video lost all respectability while talking about safety with the cross draw holster.
Meh. The real world doesn’t have a well defined firing line that you can keep your weapon perpendicular too,and there are multiple reasons for a cross draw holster.
Real world holster – And perfectly valid. My father always wore a cross-draw when he was carrying a large-frame pistol. Small frame pistols went in strong-side holsters – and yeah, he knew what he was doing, and had decades of safety and combat training behind it. Including multiple sessions at Gunsite.
Railing down on a guy for using a cross-draw? Careful – you might be the one that’s losing respect.
It’s not the holster, it’s how he draws from it—and puts the gun back into it. Just bad technique.
Also bad not to look, if not feel, in the chamber for a possible unextracted round.
Also wish his finger was along the slide rather than athwart the trigger guard. But hey, nobody’s perfect except me. 😀
Get to feeling better.
Like the video. If you follow the 3 simple rules you’re pretty well covered from accidentally shooting a loved one. My 4th is knowing your target and what’s beyond it, but that comes when you are about to shoot someone on purpose. The big things are covered. If you point a firearm at someone you don’t want dead, you need to be smacked upside your head with a lead pipe. Apparently you don’t need your brain, you weren’t using it anyway. Maybe you can make it in politics… But seriously. How many people have been shot by firearms that the person “didn’t think it was loaded”
I had to take a firearm out of my girlfriend’s hands. She inspected it with the magazine in it to make sure the chamber was cleared. However the magazine was full. It was a good teachable moment for her. I showed her, “Remove the magazine FIRST! THEN check the chamber.” dropped the magazine, and racked the slide… POP! 9mm hollow-point ejected.
There are 4 rules that everyone typically refers to.
Depends on whether you prefer Cooper’s 4, or NRA’s 3. Either set will keep you from shooting someone by mistake. NRA’s are more geared to recreational shooters, Cooper’s more toward carriers.
Great video, all the main rules for safe gun handling was covered.
Get well soon!
Muchly liking that vid… First three rules of safety covered succinctly and clearly. Excellent advice on confrontations, too.
Every time you take a firearm out in public, you become an ambassador for the 2nd Amendment – So don’t be a jerk.
Every time it gets past 4 AM on a weekday and a new panel isn’t up, I start wondering if today is going to be the day it misses an upload.
I think the same, wonder if he is lethal sick or dead or something..,.
Ehn. Sometimes, for reasons unknown to me, the auto-updater doesn’t work.
DON’T DIE ON US!!!
I would say those are solid rules to follow and you won’t have an accident, shoot somebody by mistake. It’s often people that have been shooting for 20-30 years which I find have worse gun safety than the typical new young shooters. The “fuds” who know it all since they were shooting since 9.