Matt Ian Talks about .22 Rifles Not Killing People, Looses Job
Yea. That about sums it up. His three panel comic on how it went down is here.
Now, what bothers me here is the fact that he got fired for talking about it being hard to kill someone with a .22 rifle.
This is a conversation I’ve had before.
And oddly, the content of it wasn’t much different. Basically, the same context with a “yea, a .22 caliber rifle is great for target practice.. you’d have to really try to kill someone with it, not just accidentally misfire or something.”
I’m kinda shocked someone could mis-construe that, with the “have to shoot them in the face” added on, as being some kind of warning that you might be a psychopath. Psychopath’s *don’t* casually talk about the dangers of firearm ownership, they simply start shooting people with them.
This, folks, is why they’re psychopathic. Stating you picked out a target practice rifle based on it’s improbability of harming someone (yes, even with a colorful metaphor) shouldn’t raise any red flags here.
Is it just me, or are people starting to witch hunt because of a infinitesimally small number of deranged individuals?