As the AP reports, A 27 year old Grand Junction, CO man is in custody for allegedly of spraying a co-worker with flammable lacquer thinner, throwing a garbage can at him, and shooting him as many as 20 times with a nail gun.
Jacob Bertrand is currently being held in the Mesa county jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. He is alleged to have committed the nail gun attack up a coworker, while working at a local hardware store.
This is certainly not the first attack with a nail gun, on either side of the Atlantic ocean. In the UK, criminals attempted to rob a man, and shot him multiple times with a nail gun. Nor are unlawful uses of nailguns confined only to humans, as a goose learned.
Perhaps we will now hear calls for Nail Gun control? Or, perhaps people will apply reason, and recognize that criminals will commit crimes using whatever tools they have, regardless of the the laws against committing the crime or having the gun?
just because you have the right to own a gun dosent mean you should. And the difference between criminals shooting someone with a nail gun and a real gun is that shooting a person with a real gun is not misusing it, they are designedto kill. how exactly would everyone owning a gun benefit society, what is the world coming to when everybody needs a gun to protect themslefs from everybody else.
Stranger, have you ever considered getting a brain scan?
A gun is not designed only to kill since shooting someone in the leg is usually not fatal. I am also aware of blank shotgun cartridges that act similar to a flash bang which temporarily blinds and deafens one or more criminals in an area.
Gun sales have been increasing and yet crime rates have fallen and the reason is the criminals do not know who is carrying a concealed weapon
Criminals conceal weapons but they will always be armed but allowing all law abiding citizens their 2nd amendment rights would assure that every criminal will be afraid of getting gunned down by everybody if they take their weapon out since they do not know who is armed and who is not.
I forgot to mention that concealed carry of firearms is like mutually assured destruction since a criminal or insane person drawing a weapon would likely be shot multiple times possibly by multiple people except in gun safe zones which is a federally mandated hunting ground for criminals and insane people
“stranger”,
We live in a world where criminals commit unspeakable crimes every day. Having a gun is the best way for a law abiding citizen to defend themselves. If a criminal breaks in to my home to kill me and/or rape my girlfriend, I can stop them, while an unarmed person likely can’t stop the criminal.
I discuss this in much greater detail in the following posts (and indeed the rest of this website as a whole):
http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/10/03/pacifism-a-naive-and-dangerous-approach-to-life/
http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/06/13/why-i-have-a-gun/
http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/06/09/a-problems-some-law-abiding-citizens-choose-to-turn-down-guns-while-criminals-embrace-them/
http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/06/02/gun-ownership-helps-protect-everyone-even-those-who-dont-own-a-gun-themselves/