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After getting shot in head, Texas lawmaker planning "celebratory gunfire" bill

ThoughtEx. said:
"After being hit in the head with a bullet shortly after midnight on New Year's Eve, state Rep. Armando Martinez plans to file legislation aimed at reducing or preventing celebratory gun firings.

"If my legislation could help save a life, you know, then definitely that’s what we’re gonna be looking at doing,” the Weslaco Democrat said Monday in a phone interview from the Valley Baptist Medical Center shortly before he was released"

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/01/02/state-rep-armando-martinez-looks-file-celebratory-/

Another liberal coming after your guns people! Wake up, first it'll be celebratory gunfire and then they'll come after accidental discharges and before you know it we won't have the right to kill with negligence anymore. If he didn't want to be shot, he shouldn't have been standing anywhere in TX, why punish honest law abiding citizens for his dumb mistake of having a head vulnerable to bullets in the first place?

Next thing liberals will be whining about is toddler's shooting people once a week on average for the last year. They'll be wanting to deny good hard working toddlers, their basic god given rights as an American, to find an unsecured fire arm and harm themselves and anyone else.

And if you try and convince me liberals aren't just bringing these things up because they hate guns and want to tread on our rights, I'll call you dishonest. We all know liberals care nothing for their children and communities, they only care about making us patriots look bad. There is nothing that can be done to save innocent lives from accidental discharges, that's a fact proven by a statement the NRA made when it blocked the CDC funding to study the problem. And anyone who questions the NRA is just dishonest and a loon.

#satire
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Since celebratory gun fire is already illegal what exactly is Mr. Marinez planning on doing I wonder? Make it another law that says the same thing? At most all he can do is make the penalties already in existence harsher.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
That is the point - morons do not think about consequences.
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that's one of the more astute points I have seen on this topic. Its akin to people who say "parents who let their kids get hold of guns should be punished". Now I don't disagree with this but when I ask them why, they say TO DETER other parents.

and I say how.

and they say the "consequences of getting caught and punished will deter them.

and So I ask-if some moron is not deterred by the possibility of their kid blowing its brains all over their new kitchen table or newly painted ceiling, why is the possibility of saying being fined 1000 bucks going to work any better?
 
Do some PSAs on the danger. Not everything has to be a law.
 
TurtleDude said:
that's one of the more astute points I have seen on this topic. Its akin to people who say "parents who let their kids get hold of guns should be punished". Now I don't disagree with this but when I ask them why, they say TO DETER other parents.

and I say how.

and they say the "consequences of getting caught and punished will deter them.

and So I ask-if some moron is not deterred by the possibility of their kid blowing its brains all over their new kitchen table or newly painted ceiling, why is the possibility of saying being fined 1000 bucks going to work any better?
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Just because we cant deter crime or immoral behaviour does not mean we shouldn't punish the crime or immoral behavour.
 
Bodhisattva said:
It should be illegal EVERYWHERE...
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well if you are being strafed by Jihadist drones or dive bombed by planes owned by the Cali Cartel, I could see legitimate reason to fire handguns or better yet, medium caliber machine guns into the air.

other than that, I agree
 
Bodhisattva said:
Just because we cant deter crime or immoral behaviour does not mean we shouldn't punish the crime or immoral behavour.
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did you miss that part where I said I support punishing such negligent activity
 
TurtleDude said:
lets hope nothing falls on your head!!. :mrgreen:
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The Earth fell on my head once when my ski flip fell short... :)

Ouched for months. Concussion.
 
Bodhisattva said:
The Earth fell on my head once when my ski flip fell short... :)

Ouched for months. Concussion.
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I wonder if Galileo would have concurred in what happened?
 
TurtleDude said:
I wonder if Galileo would have concurred in what happened?
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Since I am the center of the universe physics mandates that is what happened...
 
News flash....it's already against the law to fire a gun in a reckless manner. No need to make redundant laws.
 
Fishking said:
News flash....it's already against the law to fire a gun in a reckless manner. No need to make redundant laws.
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More gun laws... even redundant ones... will reduce needless gun deaths and violence.
 
Fishking said:
News flash....it's already against the law to fire a gun in a reckless manner. No need to make redundant laws.
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I don't think Joe Biden got that memo
 
Bodhisattva said:
More gun laws... even redundant ones... will reduce needless gun deaths and violence.
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Less gun laws will increase needed gun deaths and violence
 
Bodhisattva said:
We certainly need more gun deaths...
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Well to quote Dirty Harry

"there's nothing wrong with shooting people as long as the right people get shot"


in most cases-legal or illegal gun owners do shoot the right people-80% of those killed by gunfire from another person are criminals. But gun control doesn't tend to address the fact that 80% of those doing the shooting cannot own guns in the first place without being guilty of a serious felony
 
TurtleDude said:
Well to quote Dirty Harry

"there's nothing wrong with shooting people as long as the right people get shot"


in most cases-legal or illegal gun owners do shoot the right people-80% of those killed by gunfire from another person are criminals. But gun control doesn't tend to address the fact that 80% of those doing the shooting cannot own guns in the first place without being guilty of a serious felony
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That is a great line. Lol.
 
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