Woman accidentally kills self adjusting bra holster

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/18/woman-kills-self-adjusting-bra-holster/23640143/

Why she placed a gun in her bra and how that placement would have have aided her in the event of an unexpected armed altercation?
Why many adult gun owners continue to act as if guns were toys is quite the conundrum?
It raises the question as it relates to common gun ownership for some: Are guns no more than adult toys for many gun owners?

 

It's quite obvious she never took a real firearms safety course, and if she did, she certainly wasn't paying attention.

 

Woman in Texas fatally shuts sex offender trying to force his way into her home.
http://video.lauraingraham.com/Texas-Woman-Shoots-Kills-Sex-Offender-28548773

Is the desire to disarm Americans a scheme on the part of some to make women helpless? Not all, of course, but could some simply want women to be unarmed and available to them?

My condolences to the family of the woman who accidentally shot herself. Using a tragic accident is always a good strategy, though.

 

Every gun owner I know, myself included, would have removed the firearm to make any adjustments needed, and before going out in public.

The location she hid the gun isn't advantageous in an "unexpected altercation" (which is really the only kind, isn't it?), it's advantageous to simply concealing the firearm until it is needed.

She made a mistake, and paid with her life. Fortunately no one else was hit.

 

There will always be irresponsible people sadly.

 

Precisely, but this will turn into another liberal crusade against firearm ownership on this board and on MSNBC and other outlets. Some folks just can't get their heads around the fact that some other folks just make poor decisions.

 

I pay the libruls little attention when it comes to guns.

 

it's called "concealed carry" for a reason. Since I have never worn a bra, let alone a bra holster, I can't even imagine how the gun barrel was aimed toward her eye.

 

Uh, gun barrel pointing up, woman looking down...


Too bad, accidents happen...................

 

again, I know what bra holsters are. we don't know which version she was wearing. I've never seen one which has the barrel facing upward or even sideways.

 

That's doesn't seem to be happening in this thread though. The OP question related to the attitude many people seem to have towards the firearms they own. Isn't that a legitimate issue to consider or should any discussions about use of firearms be automatically shut down with the phrase "liberal crusade against firearm ownership"?

 

Firearms are private property. How the owner handles them is clearly an issue for debate, when handled in a public area, and easily solved if the owner takes a safety course. I don't disagree there.

 

Well, according to the OP she was


ADJUSTING the gun......that means she was moving it....

 

poor judgment cost her life.

There really aren't enough details. What was in the holster? Did it have a safety? How did it accidentally discharge?

She obviously did not follow safety protocols

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right, you can toss my gun against a wall and it won't discharge

 

These anecdotal stories used to bolster ideological arguments are stupid. The forum is flooded with them.

 

Whats wrong with toys?
Old metal Tonka trucks can kill too if played with improperly. /ridiculous meme

If this "mother of two" had been home being a proper mother where she belonged her children may well not be in mourning today. /poorly timed misogynistic sarcasm

Concealed carry is wrong, wear your iron in plain view for the world to see and this accident doesn't happen. /anti CC tirade

I won't even get started on the unnatural act of wearing a bra ....and those damn clasps, like to go back in time and smack the person that invented those clasps! /anti bra rant

I don't care if one is just plinking, practicing or carrying, firearms must always be treated with the respect all good tools/toys deserve.

Condolences to her family, damn shame when a mother is lost for any reason.

 

We weren't discussing discharge, we were talking angle.

 

Not yet, but the thread is young!

The OP uses a common tactic used by those who support a "liberal crusade against firearm ownership" to open up the attack on guns, gun laws and gun owners. The OP exposes themselves and their true anti-gun position with the use of the implication that such gun owners must think of guns as "toys". If the OP wanted a real dialog about this tragedy then this thread would be about the need to combat firearm ignorance -- not about gun owners "attitudes". The attitudes that need to be called in to questions are the attitudes of those who would create a social climate like we've had the last few decades that would drive the needed gun education that would have prevented such a tragedy, essentially underground.

 

her name is Bond, Christina Bond....

seriously though, accidents happen, more people die driving a car to work then from their own guns

 

I wonder if the manufacture is nervous at all.

 

Why were you trying to close down that debate with the off-topic reference to a "liberal crusade against firearm ownership" then? (and if that honestly wasn't your intention, it's how it came across, to me at least).

Incidentally I see no reason why that discussion must be limited to the context of public areas or couldn't be independent of location, focussing on general attitudes rather than specific actions (which was the point the OP tried to raise).

 

Usually face sideways.



I would guess that when adjusting the weapon she put a finger in the guard.

 

Yes, this totally proves that people are not capable of handling firearms, so we should ban them. Great post, Arphen.

 

Why the liberal horde continues to act as if the very small percent of people who have gun accidents is "many" when the percent of accidents is very low is the real conundrum...

Again we have an ignorant liberal bashing all gun owners when there is a higher percentage of liberals who kill themselves with recreational drugs than people who have gun accidents.

The liberals don't even see the daily cases where a drug crazed punk attacks a family member to get money for drugs but they post these few cases of inexperienced people having accidents because they want to protect themselves from the crack heads and Joe Biden. In this case USA TODAY went back over a month to get this story so it isn't current or political.

Most bra holsters are between and below the breasts but we don't know what this woman had of what exactly happened. I expect that in the hereafter she will be reminded to keep her finger off of the trigger.

She was at home, not in public..

 

Of a certainty anything that leftwingers support under the umbrella of their politically correct ideology if someone is injured or dies as a result is seen as a regrettable but ultimately acceptable loss in a "you can't cook an omelet without breaking some eggs," sort of way. If not for their double-standards one wonders if they would have any standards at all.