• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 hours

    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.

    • mrbeano@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22 minutes

      Well, to be fair, it was ChatGPT that told the dog it was ok to shoot.

      Might as well add another layer of unaccountability.

  • fartographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    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!

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 hour

    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!

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      23 minutes

      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!

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3 hours

    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!!!

    • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      Looks like it got a ram bar. Also what would deflect the bullet if it missed everything?

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3 hours

        Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!

        Jumping in front of the bullet would’ve hurt less!

        • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 hours

          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.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2 minutes

            That’s assuming it’s DDR4.

            For DDR5 you probably need the extended insurance that also covers Jewellery and Luxury Goods.

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
    1 hour

    Oh, no, the legal killing machine nearly killed someone.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    Just another reason why American stick and cardboard houses are a bad idea.

  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    …thanks for the clarification. We’ll add an animal endangerment charge on as well.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6 hours

    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.

      • 2fm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        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.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3 hours

          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.

        • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
          4 hours

          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…

          • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 hours

            just be cautious with power supply, a failure could crater the whole system.

            • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
              2 hours

              Valid, always over-engineer the power supply, it should be mostly in the middle of its rating. Worth it for general longevity.

  • delikt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5 hours

    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

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      49 minutes

      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.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 hours

      There are probably more “Man bites dog” stories in Europe than “Dog discharges gun” stories.

      • Justifier@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        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 meeting a 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.

    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      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.

      • Culf@feddit.dkEnglish
        30 minutes

        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…

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        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.

      • ftbd@feddit.orgEnglish
        2 hours

        Small firearms go through ~10cm thick bricks but not through a computer?

    • KingKong33@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4 hours

      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. 😂

      • 3rdXthecharm@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4 hours

        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.

        • KingKong33@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3 hours

          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.

          • 3rdXthecharm@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2 hours

            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

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    4 hours

    So we’ve gone from posting reddit posts to posting news articles about reddit posts? The same reddit that is chock full of ai agents? I’m sure this story is 1000% true.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    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.

    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

      • Sickday@kbin.earth
        4 hours

        It baffles me that this person had to:

        1. Have their firearm and ammo in proximity without the intent to immediately discharge it
        2. Have their firearm LOADED in their own home without the intent to discharge it.
        3. “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.

        • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
          3 hours

          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.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2 hours

        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.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      5 hours

      Including the pets.

      My cat encouraged me to buy guns. Something about overthrowing human bourgeois and installing a cat proletariat government,

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3 hours

        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)

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4 hours

      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.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    4 hours

    Confiscate both the gun and the dog, since the dog is obviously being maltreated to the point that trying to shoot its owner seemed like a good idea.

    (Only the second half of that is sarcastic.)