{"id":1896,"date":"2022-08-28T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/accidental-or-negligent\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T11:16:04","slug":"accidental-or-negligent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/accidental-or-negligent\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental or Negligent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">An important <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingillustrated.com\/content\/accidental-or-negligent\/\">distinction<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">. . . an accidental discharge is when lightning strikes your firearm in such a way as to cause it to fire. Just about anything else is a negligent discharge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Any unintentional discharge of a firearm can usually be traced to negligence on some individual\u2019s part. Not knowing the proper manual of arms for a certain gun. Not focusing on safety while handling it. Using the wrong ammunition. Failing to properly maintain a particular firearm. Leaving a firearm laying around where some unauthorized person might pick it up. And you can think of other examples of negligence that could lead to a discharge that often results in injury or death. Using the term \u201caccident\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">sort of<\/span> implies that it was really nobody\u2019s fault, while \u201cnegligent\u201d puts it right back on somebody who should have been more responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Which &#39;somebody&#39; might the author have in mind?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important distinction: . . . an accidental discharge is when lightning strikes your firearm in such a way as to cause it to fire. Just about anything else is a negligent discharge. Any unintentional discharge of a firearm can usually be traced to negligence on some individual\u2019s part. Not knowing the proper manual of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/accidental-or-negligent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accidental or Negligent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-distinctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}