Yet another needless shooting
 

How many more innocent lives will be tragically ruined due to another shooting by a law abiding citizen legally owning and using a gun to protect their family?

Texas mom shoots man trying to take car with her kids inside at gas station: 'I hope that woke him up' | Fox News

When will we care more about the criminals than our own selfish desire to protect our family?

I'm glad the loaded gun in the glove box thing worked out for her, it typically doesn't.

2017
Man Arrested After 5-Year-Old Son Fatally Shoots Himself With Gun Left In Glove Box
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jamal-todman-negligence-son-gun_us_5a3ac313e4b0b0e5a79f3cc4

2015
Pinellas toddler finds his father's gun, kills himself
2012
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boy-3-fatally-shoots-self-in-car-at-gas-station/

The first word in the link tells all. TEXAS mom.

Give her a medal. She can be so happy she did not live in so many gun unfriendly states, she would be in jail right now.

The recent case in Oklahoma City where an armed bad guy started shooting and wounded a mom and daughter and random had a happy ending. Two men that did not know each other or anything except a bad man with a gun was going to kill innocent people went back to different cars, and they got their guns and killed the bad guy. The DA has looked at the evidence, and announce no charges at all. Case closed.

Kach, do you really think two examples you dredge up make it "typical" that a gun in a glove box doesn't work out well?
Pause and think for a second....how many cars in the USA have a gun on board somewhere? I would be willing to be there are enough to render your two examples statistically irrelevant. I would be willing to be there are enough to render a thousand such examples statistically irrelevant.
I am not saying you should carry a gun in a car that regularly has kids in it, to me that is a straight up dumb idea. Do you post this crap in the hopes some are as superficial as you in perusing news stories? Looking only on the surface to see if it jives with their inherent bias well enough to propagate to other gullible idiots?

Looks like they need to outlaw lions in Africa , I love that the poachers became supper :D


https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/2b6f5076-8740-34e9-8711-b9692d196f47/ss_%27gang%27-of-rhino-poachers.html

I'll bet the parents of the dead kids don't think their kids are statistically irrelevant. I'm pro-gun, but wow, that statement was a real zinger.

That is a great story. Good job lions. Leave the remains for the hyenas.

I'm also pro gun but not sure about guns in cars... sometimes road rage+gun=very bad outcome.

And road rage isn't always about some a-hole, never know if someone just jumped in the car after a big hairy argument with their wife or boss.

Or, you just don't hear about every time one is used in self defense.

I didn't see where he said the dead kids were statistically irrelevant. I did see where he stated the examples provided were not statistically relevant, IOW the results were an abnormality. Unusual. Not typical. Not to be expected. Not likely, apples to oranges, etc.

His argument was reasonable.

Well put. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Unfortunately, the state of Texas will most likely have to cover his hospital bills. :rolleyes:

hope it's all while he is in jail.

I'm sure that most guns in a glove box just sit there unused.

You would lose such a bet, most firearms are used on family members on purpose or by accident, with suicide being the most frequent application. This includes firearms stored in glove boxes as the more than two examples I posted illustrate.

You sure do seem to be promoting that idea by posting this incident and proclaiming it as a "selfish desire to protect our family".

I own guns, I am not anti-gun, I am anti-stupid.

If someone actually has a "selfish desire to protect their family" then they will keep their firearm on their person or restrict access to children, and possibly lock them up unloaded when not in use.

That self-loathing must be terrible.

I don't own any guns but I probably will some day.

Regarding the keeping of the gun in the glovebox...Do hand gun have safetys that are child proof? And, in this particular case, both kids were in the back seat, both were young enough that that were probably in car seats. I'm assuming it would be difficult for the kids to gain access to the gun in the glove box.

Regardless, the person responsible was the guy that attempted to carjack the car that had small children in it and he learned the hard way - good job mom!

Bad Karma
 

Sound to me that the would be carjacker got (most) of what he deserved. He's just lucky that she didn't keep pulling the trigger until it went click, click, click! Some people are simply a waste of skin and air! If it happened to me, I would not be as nice as she was!

These days, many guns don't really have a traditional safety. Something like a Glock usually doesn't have a traditional safety. What they have is a "button" on the trigger such that if you pull the trigger, you've disabled the safety. Even traditional safeties aren't child-proof.

I'd say that in pretty much all cases (probably all, but I won't assume to know that there couldn't be the 1 in a million or billion) a big part of the responsibility lies with the gun owner that had a gun in a place that a child could get to it, even if it was just an odd set of circumstances (the perfect storm) that lead to the child gaining access.

Absolutely, I'd say that despite the possible safety issue that may have existed, this case absolutely gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

I don't care who you are or who it was directed at, that there was just too funny.

Most firearms? Really? We must all be dead then considering the number of firearms in this country.

Syntax, important it is.