Well I hope he will get better.
I hope the handgun is okay.
Well I hope he will get better.
If the 1500 would drop their asinine rules that force people to screw with their firearms before entering, then incidents like this would virtually never happen. They force people to coonfinger their guns and things like this happen.
Hopefully not a serious wound.
It's unfortunate that some here have posted that it's the show's fault that this guy was careless enough to shoot himself. "If they didn't make him unload the gun, these things would virtually never happen..."
While this may seem the answer on the surface, it is a rather simple-minded conclusion. The Indy 1500 is a business trying to maximize their profit potential. Among many things, that means they are purposely minimizing their liability exposure for the outrageous insurance they must buy for the event. It's their event. It's their decision. If you don't like it, you don't have to attend. But, if you do attend, an IMPD officer, hired by the show, asks you, individually, if you are carrying a gun. You answer yes or no. If you answer yes, it must be unloaded. THEIR house, their rules. Particpation then demands that you have the minimal competence necessary to unload and load your weapon. If you do not have that competence, YOU SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
Several posts in this thread suggesting that it would be better if the show just allowed everyone to carry loaded. Let's ponder that. Suppose the loser who shot himself today arrived at the show with his loaded gun. No rule to say he can't take it in with him. He does so. He gets to a booth and just loves that new 33-round mag...he MUST know if it will fit his gun! No problem, he'll just pop out his loaded mag and see if it will insert. BANG!!!! Uh Oh, he just fat-fingered the trigger on his loaded gun and discharged it into the head of the 7 year-old kid standing next to him.
Wouldn't happen you say? Tell that to the idiot who shot himself today....
Some of you have the ability to reason just far enough to be dangerous. Beyond that, let those of us who plan for such things professionally decide what does and does not make sense. The Indy 1500 isn't to blame for this nut shooting himself. The nut is responsible. Period.
These idiots NEVER amuse me! not in the least! I have never been "trained" but i know better than to do that garbage! WHY? Because I was lucky enough to have a dad and a few other crusty old marines teach me at a very young age. I FEAR what my dad will do to me if i even THINK about breaking one of the firearms safety rules....and hes been DEAD for 14 years!!
We didn't think so at the time, but Thank God for being raised by a crusty old Marine.
Well at lest he didn't shoot someone else. When will people learn?
These idiots NEVER amuse me! not in the least! I have never been "trained" but i know better than to do that garbage! WHY? Because I was lucky enough to have a dad and a few other crusty old marines teach me at a very young age. I FEAR what my dad will do to me if i even THINK about breaking one of the firearms safety rules....and hes been DEAD for 14 years!!
How deliciously ironic THAT would be.
You and I KNOW better than that, and I am beer bottle half full kinda guy as well.
I am wondering if it was actually the slide that got his hand and not the round itself? Doesn't matter as the news media will make the worst our of it regardless.
Uhhh........Example, 26 years ago no one really knew or used let alone called front waistband carry "Appendix Carry"
The 1500 should be liable for any damages that occur as a result of a ND, since they are the ones who require people to unload their firearms. Every time you have to take a firearm out of its nice, safe holster and futz around with it to unload or load it, you run the risk of a ND. Their asinine rules compound the problem. Multiply that by the hundreds of people who are required to do it at any given show and your recipe for disaster goes up even farther. Their rules, their liability. Even the safest gun owner can have a discharge, as we have seen here on INGO many times. And the 1500 doesn't even provide a safe area to unload. The foyer is not safe and there are no barrels.?.......kind'a stoopid as h*** ain't it?......WHY should THEY be liabel if YOU (or anybody....) ND a round in yer ownself ?......Mostly the MAIN problem with this country these days......everbody wants the other dude to pay for they stupidity.....cain't go along with'a logic on that 1.....
thousands out on display and ONE moron to wipe away all of the good headlines...
Honestly I hate to be the one who says it but WHY? The idiot doesn't deserve anything but the worst. People are so stupid and ruin things for the people who have an IQ of more than 4. It's impossible to shoot yourself unless you are down right stupid. Follow the basic safety rules....good thing he shot himself instead of someone else. He could have killed a kid. Personally I'm glad he shot himself because now he may be more safe thus saving someone else's life down the road. Darwin's law.