First a little history:
On January 31, 2018, 15 year old Ethan Song of Guilford, Kommiecticut accidentally negligently blew his brains out with a .357 Magnum handgun belonging to his friend's father.
Because
of this incident, useless and idiotic laws were passed in Kommiecticut
regarding storage and accessibility of firearms. Critically thinking
people know that laws like these can never prevent such a future
tragedy from occurring, because they will just simply become something a
real moron (like say the drug dealer or gang-banger that keeps the
loaded gun under the couch cushion for his baby mama's kids to find)
gets charged with AFTER the tragic shooting of another kid. The real
hope and intent is to frighten legitimate gun owners from keeping a
firearm handy for self-defense, or (God forbid!) providing one to their responsible
minor children. There are thousands of stories out there of minor children
defending themselves or their family with a firearm from all over the
country. Laws don't deter me one little bit, but then I am a proponent
of every kind of non-compliance. This is the type of
intolerable/unconstitutional act the gun-grabbing hoplophobes that
make up our entire congressional delegation and populate this state want to take nationwide.
Link to article in the New Haven Register that is about the investigation from November 20, 2018
Ethan Song is dead. Do you know why? Lots of stupidity. First and foremost:
1). His
parents never taught him to mind your own fucking business and leave
other peoples private property alone. He went into a closet in a master
bedroom in someone else's home and opened a closed container not
belonging to him or his equally stupid friend. They supposedly did this
many times... until the last time.
2). They
also obviously never taught him one item of gun safety. EVERY CHILD
SHOULD LEARN BASIC GUN SAFETY!! Depending on the age and maturity it
should at least be Eddie Eagle's "STOP-RUN AWAY-TELL AN ADULT." I constantly preach Col. Cooper's Four Rules of Gun Safety.
3).
Ethan did not possess the critical thinking skills that might lead a
normal person to conclude that being unfamiliar with, loading, and fucking around with any firearm WILL have bad/deadly consequences.
We
can debate the wisdom of the storage methods of the gun owner, Daniel
Markle all day long. Bottom line, his guns were locked, the keys were
"hidden" (although not very well) and HE WAS LEGAL! Since he was legal,
he was not charged in Ethan's death. But that's the rub, they want to make new standards that can potentially disarm you. I personally keep certain defensive
ammo with my secured (in a safe) firearms in a locked and hardened (as
well as alarmed and monitored) closet. After at least 2 hours work to
force their way into the alarmed closet, an unauthorized person would
now be staring at a pair of safes and if they entered my house when I
wasn't there, hearing the alarm siren blaring as state police are
automatically notified. That is provided they somehow didn't set off the
alarm just entering the house. The loaded and ready gun(s) is either holstered on
my person, or next to my head on the nightstand while I sleep and my EDC loaded and ready in the holster in the open safe for work the next day. That minimizes the noise in the early morning while I get ready for work and my wife is asleep. I actually
sleep in a modified version of Col. Cooper's "Condition Yellow." While I certainly get good rest every night, my decades as a Firefighter/EMT find me wide awake in an instant when either my fire pager, the house alarm siren sounds or the dogs all start barking.
So here we go again. The same old tired retreads pushing the same old tired anti-gun intolerable/unconstitutional acts. Watch the video to spin up your anger meter.
Lawmakers Reintroduce Gun Storage Bill Ethan's Law 2023 - FOX61 CT
Some artfully crafted scripting going on if you listen closely.
- From Ethan's father; "I no longer have the freedom to hug my child and to watch the trajectory of his life. That freedom was stolen from me." Notice how he equates and purposely inserts the word freedom. That is all on you sir, for FAILING MISERABLY as a parent. The "freedoms" of others is not up for debate or negotiable. Going after our enumerated CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to bear arms as we see fit is not a factor in your son's final act of stupidity. If anyone stole the freedom you bemoan, it was YOUR OWN SON.
- The reporter next tells us how Ethan "accidentally shot himself." No, that was pure negligence. There was no malfunction of the gun. He pulled the trigger on a loaded firearm while pointing it in an unsafe direction, and it went BANG!!
- Ah yes, now we see Senator Slimeball (Richard "Da Nang Dickie" Blumenthal) hugging poor Ethan's (equally culpable) mother. They say the most dangerous place in the world is between Sen. Slimeball and a camera. He is tied with Senator Fishface (Chris Murphy) for those in federal government pushing the most for total civilian disarmament. And both of those assholes come from my state of Kommiecticut.
- The reporter goes on to say how the proposed legislation "would create strict penalties for any violation." How are you going to do that again? Routine and surprise inspections at the residence of firearms owners? No... you will charge someone with an additional new crime AFTER there has been a negligent discharge shooting of some kid. You won't save a single life, because you can't without violating 4th and 5th Amendment rights of citizens SO STOP THE BULLSHIT! But hey, you will now be able to charge the homeowner under Ethan's Law after he/she shoots and kills an armed home invader because the gun was out of storage, right? That would be a feature, not a bug.
- Next up, Ethan's mother says his death was not an outlier (which of course it certainly was) by tying in the nightly mayhem and death on the streets of Every City, USA caused by the feral street animals. And made worse by soft on crime Demon-Crap policies running the shithole cities. She then goes on to make up a non-numerical statistic that YOUR CHILD is more likely to be killed by a gun than by any other means.
- Oh look! At the 1:07 mark the original Angry Bird and well known slum lord (US Rep. Rosa DeLauro) makes an appearance. BARF!!
- At the 1:28 mark Sen. Slimeball tells us that "millions of children are living in households with unsafely stored guns..." and standing behind him to the left is his gal pal Sen. Fishface. More bullshit as they tell us again how such a law would have saved Ethan's life. Not even remotely true. Daniel Markle would have been held criminally responsible, and Ethan would STILL BE DEAD.
Side Note:
Safe storage of firearms does not necessarily mean they have to be locked up and inaccessible. Remember open gun racks and glass door gun cabinets? The most important safety on a firearm is the gray matter in your skull. When I was a kid (maybe 10) I remember playing in a basement rec room at a neighbor's house. The Dad was an annual pheasant hunter. In the back corner of the closet in the rec room were his shotguns. We were told they were there and not to touch them. I never saw them because I never looked for them, nor did any of us kids. The act of even looking for them would have resulted in at least 5 beatings. The first from the kid that lived in the house to prevent access to the closet because he would be guilty by association and eligible for his own beatings. Then from the kid's mother and next his father when he came home from work. Then one each from my own parents; first Mom when I got home and then dad when he got home from work. Those beatings never actually occurred because they never had to. Also, I was never exposed to guns growing up so to me at that time they were just objects of extreme danger. I was probably 14 or 15 before I ever saw and handled a real firearm, courtesy of my Uncle Eddie who worked at Smith and Wesson. His guns were all stored in his bedroom closet and I'm sure his seven kids knew they were there. I never knew until he showed me and I never looked for them after.
Contact your state congressional delegation and tell them to oppose this legislation. I won't bother calling mine, because they are all adamantly in support of it. Telling them I am opposed gets me a "thank you for contacting me" form letter and then promptly ignored.
