Posted: 8/5/2009 12:15:09 PM EDT
| When you come across a CCW, and they guy is carrying a POS and doesn't know anything about guns, do you tell him or just leave it alone? I come across idiots (I say idiots because if they're CCW where I work, they've already broken the law) pretty often who not only don't know the laws, but have a pistol they say they have fired 50 rounds though, or 2 mags, or what ever. Usually these are the guys carrying Bryco, Jennings, etc... Most of them are good people, they just don't know what they're doing. The last guy I came across like this didn't even have one in the chamber. I really wanted to tell him to get rid of that POS, and keep a round chambered, and that he needs to take some classes, and look into IDPA or something. The only lecture I did give him, is that it's his responsibility to know the laws of where he's carrying. |
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I leave them alone. They're generally the sort of idiots who think they know everything, and don't like - and won't listen to - advice. Me trying to talk sense into them won't do any good.
The two largest accidents we've had with CCW holders in something like a decade have been two toilets shot by them on accident. With that sort of track record, I don't get my shorts in a knot. |
I helped an old lady, way out in the country, set her husbands old rem 870 to cruiser ready
She had called in a prowler on her property...actually 3 guys...one with a history of burgs and weapons charges....When we get there, she had barricaded herself in her home with her husbands old shotgun....when I went to take a look at it, I nocited she had a double feed....so I fixed it for her and helped her get it ready for if she had to defend herself out there.....Of course suggesting she have someone who knows how to operate a shotgun, take her out and show her how to use it. |
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Well, a thing or two. First of all, one should respect the special relations an adult has with their professional. If you are not their doctor, you should not be giving them medical advice. If you are not their priest, spiritual talk should be off limits. If you are not their bartender, don't let them cry on your shoulder.
Likewise, talk like this should be between them and their arms dealer. Okay, that is poking a little bit at humor, though it is the last how I usually get my gun advice, but then there is another serious piece to consider. Say you tell them something, tell them to get something better, and they do.....and they put a round into themselves. Are you then liable for giving them that advice? I mean, a cop is a professional shooter of some kind, yes? I don't know if one would be or not. I do know that since I hold an instructor card in an activity, I do not advice people on that activity for to do so, if only to tell them a better way of doing things, makes them my student and at that point, I could be held for their mishaps. Loose lips of this kind can make one hurt in the wrong situations. ____________________________________________________________ ("Did you tell people to throw their garbage at city hall?"––Andy Travis and Fever stutters, stalls, and says, "Well, I may have said something like that as a joke on the radio." "WELL, THEY'RE DOING IT..............and they are saying that you told them to do it!", (w,stte), "WKRP") |