Free gun initiative begins in Houston neighborhood

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston resident Cheryl Strain's inexperience with guns was apparent as she struggled to load shells into a 20-gauge shotgun.

Over the piercing blasts of gunfire in the shooting range, Strain's instructor, Dan Blackford, patiently directed her on how to use her thumb to shove a shell all the way inside the barrel and feel it click.

"Now we got a round in the chamber ready to go," Blackford said as he positioned her body on the right way to hold the shotgun. "Look down your sight, put that BB right in the middle of your target and press the trigger."

Strain's northwest Houston community of Oak Forest is the first neighborhood in the country being trained and equipped by the Armed Citizen Project, a Houston nonprofit that is giving away free shotguns to single women and residents of neighborhoods with high crime rates.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Free-gun-initiative-begins-in-Houston-neighborhood-4588825.php

[Archae]

1. Giving away free guns in high-crime areas.

Does the phrase "Gasoline on a fire" ring a bell?

[Ohio Joe]

2. ummm... Holy Shit...

"While many cities have tried gun buy-backs and other tactics in the ongoing national debate on gun control, the nonprofit and its supporters say gun giveaways to responsible owners are actually a better way to deter crime."

Annnnnnnd who does the article give as one of these responsible owners?

"Houston resident Cheryl Strain's inexperience with guns was apparent as she struggled to load shells into a 20-gauge shotgun."

I just don't get how anyone could think this would end well.

[vinny9698]

10. A one hour class is not sufficient to make one a responsible owner.

Gun accidents happen where there are guns and novices come together. Kids, toddlers, teenagers, are usually the ones that are involved in these type of accidents.
Even responsible gun owners are shooting each other, Cheney prime example, or shooting themselves.
How many accidental discharges are reported, when no one is harmed? Only the accidental discharges involving 911 emergency are reported. There are probably many more that go unreported but for luck no one was hurt.

[NMDemDist2]

3. man, if i was a drug addict in that area

i'd be in clover and high as a kite in about an hour.....

[LeftInTX]

4. What could go wrong?

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Planned genocide. n/t

[onestepforward]

6. Exactly.

I can't imagine that the police who work in that area are too thrilled about it.

[tanyev]

9. Death panels.

[YeahSureRight]

7. Looks like my investments in the Funeral Industry is going to payoff big time!

Thanks to those with a gun fetish now giving guns away I just may be able to retire a few years earlier now!

[Crunchy Frog]

8. More Darwin in action.

Thank God I'll never be setting foot in Texas again.