Why guns shouldn't be treated as tools

[SecularMotion]

A 50-year-old Howell man was killed last week when he accidentally shot himself while turning off a radio at his Livingston County employer's barn.

Bezotte said Kehres, a 1979 graduate of Monroe High School, was preparing to leave work at Epley Excavating & Geo Thermal at 5080 W. Allen Road near Fleming Road in Cohoctah Township when he reached above a workbench to turn off a radio. When he did this, he "somehow triggered" a loaded shotgun that was lying on a workbench, the sheriff said.

The shot struck Kehres in the lower chest and upper abdomen area, killing him, Bezotte noted.

Bezotte said the shotgun was long forgotten by the employees as it lay beneath a layer of tools.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20120814/NEWS01/208140302/Death-shooting-accident

[X_Digger]

1. And if I reach up on a shelf and dislodge a knife that cuts me..

We should stop treating knives as tools?!?

How moronic.

[SecularMotion]

3. Yes, knives should also be properly stored.

[X_Digger]

5. .. which has nothing to do with 'treating them as tools'.

Care to take another swing at the title of the OP?

[Confusious]

4. Maybe when it jumps out of the pile

and lodges in your chest.

That would be a better analogy.

[ileus]

2. Mine are safety devices...not simple tools.

[spin]

6. Is a chain saw a tool?

I know of a guy who ran his own lawn care and tree trimming service for several years. One day he was cutting a limb off a tree in his own yard. When the limb fell after being cut it knocked him off the ladder. He landed on his concrete driveway and suffered a broken back. The chain saw landed an inch from his head and was still running as the safety had been bypassed. Fortunately he wasn't cut by the chainsaw and recovered from the back injury although he has two long rods in his back.

Is a lawn mower a tool? I know a man who was attempting to clear a clog of grass on a running lawn mower and almost lost a finger.

A firearm in a tool but tools can be extremely dangerous when misused.

[bongbong]

7. Darwin Award?

He's in the running. That's what you can get for listening to the scare-tactics & fear-mongering of the NRA.

[rrneck]

8. You really should rethink thst title. nt

[Clames]

17. He won't.

Barely has the will to participate in his own threads much less own up to his deliberate misrepresentations.

[gordianot]

9. I have firearms and am very careful same as nailguns, chainsaws, table saws, tractors etc..

I have seen personally two people badly injured on table saws and a man lose his arm on a punch press. So far I have never seen an accidental shooting and realize it happens. As far as I am concerned many tools are extremly dangerous and should be handled as carefully as firearms.

[ileus]

11. My neighbor sawed his trigger finger off last fall.

Ripping a 2x4 with his table saw.



His main concern once they reattached it was that he was going to miss hunting season.

He learned to shoot left handed.

[Trunk Monkey]

16. I knew a guy that got himself with a PEM setter twice once in each thumb NT

[Callisto32]

10. What a ridiculous title.

It's just flat, wrong. Not opinion, wrong.

[Remmah2]

13. Deception and lies are SOP.

It's in the playbook.

[Webster Green]

12. I hate trying to get anything done in a messy shop.

Sounds like the place was a real cluster-fuck, which is an accident waiting to happen.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

14. I bet Rush's drawer of pills is mess, which may be why... oh never mind n/t

[GreenStormCloud]

15. ALL tools, even common screwdrivers, REQUIRE safe storage and handling. N/T

[oneshooter]

18. I got M1Thumb twice.

Same thumb





Same day



ouch


Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[4th law of robotics]

19. Many tools are fatal or at least very dangerous when misused.

[ManiacJoe]

20. The dangerousness is what makes them useful as tools.