XPost: talk.politics.misc, tx.guns
On 04 May 2025, Klaus Schadenfreude <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentö
ter.@gmail.com> posted some news:
ntnf1kt1p0qobfglk6ttf1ft8053u9bugv@Rudy.Canoza.is.a.forging.cocksuck ing.dwarf.com:
https://www.texasobserver.org/son-of-a-gun-legacy-unwanted-firearms/
By Leftist Writer Michael Ward
Americans own nearly 400 million guns. Five of them were recently
lying on my parents’ living room floor in Dallas. Two revolvers looked
like props from a ’70s cop movie. A pistol with a perforated barrel
looked like it was from a space opera. There was a Field &
Stream-worthy shotgun and a semi-automatic rifle right out of a mass shooting.
This collection of firearms will likely be my responsibility when my
father is gone. I might not like it, but I may not have a choice. Last September, he drafted a gun trust and named me as trustee.
[Poor Mike describes why he is so fearful]
When I was in seventh grade, a classmate of mine took his life with a shotgun. Weeks before I graduated high school, two young men rampaged
through Columbine High School, killing 13 people. These tragedies
haven’t stopped. Suicide rates of American kids between the ages of 10
and 14 have soared 80 percent since 2001.Half of the time, it’s with a
gun. The frequency of school shootings has quadrupled since the 1970s.
[Naturally, owning his Dad's guns will result in either his messy
shotgun suicide or a school being shot up at his hands. After all,
nobody is immune from Evil Gun Rays!]
Glaring at the Smith & Wesson M&P 15—one of the most popular semi-auto rifles—I don’t know how to do even the simplest things, like verify
it’s unloaded or check the safety. Couple that with a danger affecting similar models where it’s possible to experience “multiple discharges
without [pulling] the trigger.” If I were to handle this weapon, it’s possible nothing would happen. Or, I could become one of the 27,000
Americans accidentally injured by a firearm each year.
[Clearly his dad should have picked another daughter to inherit his firearms.]
What a wimp. The solution is simple. Remove this party completely from
the trust, problem solved.
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