All those dog open-carry advocates got some splainin’ to do now.
… the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.
Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?
Nooo, not the RAM! You know how expensive that is today? Should have just shot me, would be cheaper.
I feel like that’s not a valid thing to say. “My dog shot the gun”.
I’m sure it won’t hold up in court, but it also doesn’t hold up anywhere else. Don’t keep your guns loaded with the safety off where they are accessible.
You might as well just shoot your family and neighbors yourself if you’re doing that shit.
Well, to be fair, it was ChatGPT that told the dog it was ok to shoot.
Might as well add another layer of unaccountability.
If you leave a loaded firearm with a round chambered and the safety off out where “your dog” can set it off, that’s still negligence!
XTREME NEGLIGENCE! Watch this baby pull a pistol out of the couch cushions and SHOOT THE DAD! This isolated, abused teen has access to SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARMS because his parents don’t believe in a GUN SAFE! Watch the CARNAGE Carnage carnage!
Negligent Gun Owner Simulator would probably sell pretty well actually…
Insurance infinite money hack: getting your computer shot during an AI-driven semiconductor drought. Rinse and repeat, just remember to cash out before the bubble pops!
Lol insurance is gonna say ‘Well you paid x for the computer, we’ll offer you x-30%’
That’s if they’re covered at all.
OMG!
I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.
PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!
I wonder if they’ll have to pay for the single module or the set
Looks like it got a ram bar. Also what would deflect the bullet if it missed everything?
Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!
Jumping in front of the bullet would’ve hurt less!
insurance is paying it out regardless, and the gun owner said if it doesnt, theyd pay it off.
the cost between the gun owner and insuance will probably cover it.
insurance is paying it out regardless, and the gun owner said if it doesnt, theyd pay it off.
grave mistake saying that publicly
That’s assuming it’s DDR4.
For DDR5 you probably need the extended insurance that also covers Jewellery and Luxury Goods.
PSU, PSUs are still affordable, for now
Just another reason why American stick and cardboard houses are a bad idea.
Oh, no, the legal killing machine nearly killed someone.
Apparently in this case guns don’t kill ram, dogs with guns kill ram.
“I will never financially recover from this”
RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
May Theseus grant you new life.
Well said.
Oh my. I never thought of it that way. Decades of random component upgrades. New ram here. Upgraded (ram compatible, other compatible part) motherboard there. Changed video card. Replaced burnt harddrive/ssd… Its always been the same PC, while being a completely replaced one.
Mine has tended to spawn descendants along the way, random bits and parts being assembled for others in and out of the household.
A modern upgrade to the ancient metaphor/philosophical quandary.
Still as apt, but probably more broadly relatable, at least to us veteran navigators that sail the digital seas.
… Maybe a good name for a repair shop or right to repair advocacy org, something with Theseus in it somewhere.
Always bring something over, power supply, case, RAM, hard drive, in a pinch, data, it’s good luck. Think of it as changing the flag. Pretty sure mine is over 30…
just be cautious with power supply, a failure could crater the whole system.
Valid, always over-engineer the power supply, it should be mostly in the middle of its rating. Worth it for general longevity.
Some people got phrases
Here’s an attempt at another one.
If you have a short sentence that tells a tale, but has been through a few rounds of ‘telephone’…
… perhaps what you have is a quip of Theseus.
Gold. I love it
If one is said to ‘wax lyrical’, would this not carry forward to ‘wane gibbous’, meaning to gibber as an ape?
I think the inverse of waxing lyrical would be to wane prosaic.
According to your user name, you mainly got vibes
Vibes and diatribes.
My neighbor would be upgrading my computer for me if this happened
Its so strange for Europeans to read this because we don’t let Weapons randomly lay around armorized and our Walls are not that thin, that this can happen such as easy as with US paperwalls
Yeah, sure, you have that. But we have shitty healthcare and poor collective bargaining rights!
Wait…I lost where I was going with this, lol.
There are probably more “Man bites dog” stories in Europe than “Dog discharges gun” stories.
There are plenty of bullshit dog mauls person stories here too
Last year one that stood out to me was an elderly couple in St. Louis near a park were sitting outside in their back yard and a pack of dogs escaped and attacked them. They mauled the woman to death in front of the husband while he was shooting them trying to defend her with a revolver
Welcome to America where no less than a 6’ spike topped fence and a high capacity .45 is enough to maybe prevent your loved ones from being brutal ended in front of you while you’re just out enjoying your back yard
I’ll link the story when I find it in my post history for anyone who wants to read it. It’s tragic how shitty our society is.
I don’t think those stories are any less common in Europe - selfish assholes with dangerous dogs they haven’t properly trained and don’t know how to control are everywhere as far as I can tell.
It’s selfish assholes with dangerous weapons that they aren’t properly trained to handle that aren’t common around here, even in countries with very liberal gun legislation like Switzerland.
The real irony is the guy couldn’t get those dogs away from them even with a gun
The article says police dispersed them with pepper spray, so a chemical deterrent may have saved his wife’s life there if he had it over or as well as the revolver
Europeans? More like most of the world really…
I guarantee that whatever gun did this could probably go through most internal building walls in European homes too. It’s a gun, not a nerf dart.
Of course, unless it came in from outside the building. In which case, brick would probably stop it, yeah. I’d probably know if I read the article, but, ya know how it goes.
But yes on that first part.
The interior walls in my European apartment are made of a thick layer of reinforced concrete I find it quite unlikely any bullets will go through…
Do you have air conditioning? I’m starting to wonder if that’s related to insulation. Or maybe it’s just older. Then again, 120 year old American houses have plaster walls which will also not stop a bullet. Buuuuut European buildings are much older. Or, can be. Probably just built better too.
A fair number of internal walls are also thick brick or concrete. In warmer climates it helps keep the building cool from thermal mass, it’s also sturdier for places prone to hurricanes.
Small firearms go through ~10cm thick bricks but not through a computer?
Bro, unless its a .22 LR, pretty much every caliber is going to go through most building materials no matter where you live. You don’t have magic bulletbroof walls where you live. 😂
I dare you to try and shoot through my german 22cm brick wall.
Rifle calibers can go through brick.
Have you ever shot at brick or stone? Yeah, the right caliber will go right through, but it’s not flying through with near the same velocity as through drywall, paint, and dreams , the stuff my walls are made of right now.
I didn’t say different materials don’t do anything, but yeah, a lot of rifle calibers are going through brick. Especially hunting calibers, of which there are a LOT here.
I can’t say for sure, I only shoot skeet and wood targets on dirt/ground-backed hills.
But https://www.atomicdefense.com/blogs/news/can-bullets-go-through-brick seems to say: “Heavier rounds such as a 7.62x39mm or .308 rifle may penetrate the walls of a brick-veneered house, but it is not likely”
I could imagine a higher caliber hunting round going through a brick wall when pointed at it, but it should be rare to have a high caliber rifle loaded with high caliber rounds off-safety and able to be misfired by a child/dog/freak accident.
And in the UK, that’s just pretty much too impossibly rare to be occurring. The likelihood is higher here, but god I wish it wasn’t
Your RAM for your life
Can I think about it…?
…thanks for the clarification. We’ll add an animal endangerment charge on as well.
I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.
The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.
I own guns. I enjoy shooting paper targets at the range and clay disks flying through the air. I grew up around guns on a farm. I’m very comfortable handling them.
Me, and responsible people like me, are PARANOID about gun safety. Even if I KNOW it’s unloaded, I never point it in an unsafe direction. Like, not even towards the right because my neighbors house is that way 300 yards away through a concrete basement wall etc. I never point it at something I don’t intend to kill/destroy, and my finger never touches the trigger unless I intend to pull it. When the gun isn’t in my direct and immediate control - it’s locked up.
I HATE assholes like the person in this story. They deserve criminal negligence, their guns taken away forever, and some community penalty that’s severe. There is no way in hell “the dog did it”. Give me a break. At best, they were cleaning it in an unsafe manner and did some very negligent things (didn’t check the chamber, pointed it at their neighbor, pulled the god damn trigger), OR they were being a complete jackass and waving it around gangster style.
It baffles me that this person had to:
- Have their firearm and ammo in proximity without the intent to immediately discharge it
- Have their firearm LOADED in their own home without the intent to discharge it.
- “theoretically” leave it LOADED and unattended in their home long enough for “their dog” to discharge it.
Yeah this is absolutely the type of person who should not be allowed to handle firearms.
This is the type of person that should not have a child, a car, and many other things. This is an irresponsible person with everything. The dog was in danger. The neighbors were in danger.
Yeah, precisely.
There are actually quite a lot of regulations, in not all, but a lot of US states, that mandate varying levels of safe storage of firearms.
The problem is that to actually enforce that fully, you’d basically need surprise food inspectors, but for guns… which would probably run into the 4th Amendment… or, you’d have to actually revamp the 2nd Ammendment to mandate that people be required to regularly retake/retest on some kind of firearm safety course… I dunno.
But yeah, an actually responsible gun owner… probably has something like a dedicated sand bucket to point a semi auto weapon into, while they are verifying that its fully unloaded and cleared, juuuuust in case some kind of uncommanded discharge happens when you’re racking the slide to get the (potentially) chambered round out.
And yeah, never sweep anybody (or a place where anybody could be, within a mile) even with a gun you personally just unloaded. Never finger a trigger when you don’t need to. You just don’t do that.
I would at least say its possible the dog discharged the weapon, but it doesn’t matter, the situation where that is a thing that can happen should never have been allowed to arise… and yeah, the situations you describe that lead to an ND occuring are much more likely.
Including the pets.
My cat encouraged me to buy guns. Something about overthrowing human bourgeois and installing a cat proletariat government,
Shit yours too?
Yes, she has a little barrette and constantly quotes Meowarx.
The cat was lying: if one looks at who does all the work and who gets fed on somebody else’s work without having to do anything for it, one can only conclude that the cat is the bourgeois.
Unless we’re talking about strays or farm cats (repectivelly the poor and working class of the species)
The book “dying of whiteness” has a whole section about this. They interview a lot of people who are survivors of gun suicide and find that for political reasons they don’t want gun control, even as they admit their loved ones are dead because guns made it so easy to die. One of them even privately says she agrees, but would never say so in public.
