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A Thai man accidentally shot himself dead on December 3 with a pen gun while using the bathroom at a stranger’s house in the Isaan province of Roi Et. Officers from Suwannaphum Police Station and medical workers were called to the house in the Ban Nong Jarn Community in Suwannaphum district to investigate the death … …

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2 minutes ago, Polkadot said:

Imagine a gun being dangerous

This is more so.  Where do you keep it?  In a pocket in your trousers, in a shirt pocket as you would a normal pen?  It's certainly more likely to snag, as in the two cases mentioned.  Does it have a safety catch?  How is it triggered?  Not with a guarded trigger I bet.  There is 'potentially dangerous', by virtue of it being a weapon and there is 'dangerous by virtue of its design'.  This is both the former and the latter.  

58 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

This is more so.  Where do you keep it?  In a pocket in your trousers, in a shirt pocket as you would a normal pen?  It's certainly more likely to snag, as in the two cases mentioned.  Does it have a safety catch?  How is it triggered?  Not with a guarded trigger I bet.  There is 'potentially dangerous', by virtue of it being a weapon and there is 'dangerous by virtue of its design'.  This is both the former and the latter.  

In a pencil case

7 hours ago, Polkadot said:

Imagine a gun being dangerous

Imagine an idiot being dangerous with a gun... I have been around guns for my entire life and never met a dangerous one... however I have met some idiots that had them... I vote for getting rid of the idiots over getting rid of the guns... safer in the long run.

2 hours ago, Skip said:

Imagine an idiot being dangerous with a gun... I have been around guns for my entire life and never met a dangerous one... however I have met some idiots that had them... I vote for getting rid of the idiots over getting rid of the guns... safer in the long run.

7bn of them

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