Rants of a Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Stupid fuckers playing with guns kill people.

It began with three young adults driving through Pompano Beach early Tuesday. One of the passengers, in the back seat, pulled out a gun. Investigators said he wanted to fiddle around with it.

Sigh. Violation of Rules 1 through 4, right there in that one paragraph.

A shot rang out.

Within hours, the driver -- a mother of two children -- was dead, and the man charged in her death in jail.

After a brief attempt at hiding what happened, Carlos A. Martin, 26, told deputies with the Broward Sheriff's Office, "I shot her by accident."

No, you didn't. You shot her by stupidity.

And of course there are a number of comments along the lines of, "When are we going to get smart and ban guns in this country?" This amazes me. Did this guy have a CCW permit? (The article doesn't say. What do you want to bet that the answer is "no"?) Did you know, that in Florida, to get a CCW requires among other things that you have to provide evidence that you've taken a firearms course of some kind? During the course of which one assumes they will give you a lecture on firearms safety? Which precludes the concept of PLAYING WITH YOUR FUCKING GUN?

Too bad he wasn't pointing it at himself. Instead, an innocent victim had to die, and two children lost their mother.