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That dog didn't shoot anyone the negligent gun owner did.
EDIT: There's no "rack" mentioned in the source. I assumed that. A loose loaded gun makes even less sense, tho.
Loaded while in a vehicle-mounted rack. Not just illegal, but also violates some fairly fundamental gun safety principles.
Heck, just "treat every gun a loaded" and "never point a gun at anything you don't want shot" means we should probably do away with most vehicle-mounted racks to being with. I suppose inside the metal toolbox in the truck bed would be okay; at least then the dog wouldn't fire it.
Yeah it’s really hard to find any justification for driving around with a loaded shotgun. Especially when handguns exist and can just sit on your waistband. It’s extremely negligent and stupid gun ownership. Not to mention really poor self defense practice because the handgun would be easier and quicker to draw in a self defense scenario. That cunt is driving around with a loaded shotgun to feel like they’re tough and intimidate people. They should not have firearms whatsoever and really have displayed that to a high degree
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
That’s like not even that far off from what it’s like talking to gun nuts. When I was doing research on firearms for a hand gun, the scenarios those morons were constantly going on about were so fucking ridiculous that it’s just obvious they’re cosplaying shit they’ve seen in movies and none of them should ever be allowed to have something with that much power.
Headlights? You mean the giant truck-mounted spotlight right? No /s, these people really exist.
Yeah, the 100,000 Lumen LED light bar doesn't always work