I could use some advice in handling this situation by people more well versed in gun ownership than I. I did grow up around guns so am comfortable around them, but it was also rifles and shotguns for hunting, never handguns. I’ve never had an accidental discharge happen and am just not sure how to handle it.
So she recently purchased a Glock (unsure of model, sorry) for self defense as the federal government does fascist things in our community. This gun has brought her immense security in the last month or so. She practices loading and racking the gun fairly frequently to get more comfortable with it and as a way to soothe her nerves.
However, and I didn’t know this until this incident, her practicing with the gun involved putting a live round in the chamber. I also didn’t know that this gun does not have a safety. These two things combined, make me extremely uncomfortable and I would have told her as much had I known.
Yesterday while practicing, and with a live round in the chamber, she said she “got a compulsion to pull the trigger” and was unable to stop herself from following through on the compulsion. Thankfully, neither she or any of our cats were hurt. Our wall has a new hole in it, but the bullet did not leave our home as there is no exit hole.
I have since told her never to load a live round during practice in our home. I also have taken possession of the gun and the safe that it is in because of how uncomfortable I am that she was unable to control this compulsion. We’ve talked through our feelings around this; the severity of the mistake and the danger to her and our cats it caused. I can tell how embarrassed and remorseful she is. But I’m just not sure how to proceed. I want her to have the safety the gun provides her and access to it for emergency situations (I’ve hidden it outside of our bedroom) but don’t want to be afraid of this happening again. Any advice would be appreciated.
— ihazhands in My partner “accidentally” discharged her handgun in our home, unsure how to handle the situation
[h/t Rob Romano]
“Yesterday while practicing, and with a live round in the chamber, she said she ‘got a compulsion to pull the trigger’ and was unable to stop herself from following through on the compulsion.”
She either lied to you not realizing it wasn’t true or has a touch of OCD.
One can be solved by training and practice, the other (OCD) needs something else you can’t give her.
there is a third factor also, and its because you are left wing liberal and is most likely the cause because it affects all left wing liberals in all sorts of aspects and is one of the most common mental health professional addressed things for left wingers and its self-manufacturered – and that is the left wing liberal ‘disease’, emotionally motivated actions (they feel like ‘compulsion’). In other words she was self-motivated ‘compulsion’ to pull the trigger because she at some level pictures herself gleefully inflicting harm based on ‘I feelz’, a sign of an unstable person.
And judging from this stupid sounding post of yours in the liberals section of Reddit, you have a touch of this too.
“My partner ‘accidentally’ discharged her handgun in our home, unsure how to handle the situation”
Even the title of your post reveals/hints ’emotionally motivated actions’ by coloring this as ‘accident’ as you are emotionally motivated to frame it as such to avoid either you or your partner looking stupid, by ignoring the factual reality which is a typical left winger mental health issue.
The factual reality, based upon you post: Your ‘partner’ didn’t ‘accidentally’ discharge the firearm. Your ‘partner’ even told you this with ‘got a compulsion to pull the trigger’. In other words, it was no accident, your ‘partner’ intentionally pulled the trigger after loading a live round and according to your partner that intention (the trigger pull) was by ‘compulsion’. Will you also claim loading a live round was a ‘compulsion’ too? Did you not notice there were two steps here? One, loading the live round, and two, pulling the trigger, compulsion or not there was intent to do each of those.
Also, a ‘compulsion’ is not an accident, compulsions do not happen by ‘accident’, something causes/motivates/creates them and the person carries out what ever the act needed to satisfy the compulsion and that is an act of intention and not ‘accident’. At the very best, this might, possibly, maybe, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and its a day that ends in a ‘Z’, might be termed a ‘negligent discharge’ if it wasn’t so clearly defined as an intentional act by ‘practice’. But the reality is there was no ‘accidental’ or ‘negligent’ discharge – your partner intentionally loaded a live round and intentionally pulled the trigger plain and simple.
You left wingers even lie to yourselves.
Easy,have her shoot A LOT in a safe place.(practice)4 rules? not hard to figer this out.
she said she got a compulsion…was unable to stop herself from following through on the compulsion
If ever there was a sentence that summed up the left. Children. Petulant, whiny, screaming, children.
The four rules of safe gun handling aren’t suggestions.
For dry-fire practice, get some snap caps. Practice in a room that contains NO ammunition. If possible, have a second person check that the firearm is clear. Identify “safe” shooting directions – being mindful of family members, neighbors, etc.
She should never touch a firearm. Ever.
I doubt the story happened. Made up for the internet.
How about calling in a red flag on her. People with such low impulse control shouldn’t have access to firearms without supervision.
Or replace all of her ammo with snap caps. Sucks for her if she needs to use the gun, but at least that way her uncontrolled impulses won’t get someone shot who doesn’t deserve it.
And the original post on Reddit is now deleted, although there are still replies to peruse.