A thread in r/guns asking what gets somebody permanently uninvited from range day got dark in a hurry when one commenter told a story that pretty much ended the debate. He said he had a friend flag him with a loaded Desert Eagle, with his finger on the trigger. He yelled at him over it, which would have been enough on its own, but the part that really made it worse came later. About a week afterward, the two were talking about it, and the guy casually admitted he had been drunk at the time.
According to the comment, the friend’s explanation somehow made the whole thing even uglier. He said, “I was drunk! How was I supposed to know you loaded a mag!” That line lit people up in the thread, because it showed the problem was not only bad muzzle discipline. It was the complete lack of judgment underneath it. The original commenter said that after hearing that, he did not just stop taking the guy to the range. He stopped hanging out with him entirely.
He followed up with another detail that made the moment easy to picture in the worst way. He said he was standing behind the firing line when his friend waved the gun right past his face, and that he could “legitimately” see the bullet sitting in the back of the barrel. That kind of description tends to stick with people, because it takes the story out of the abstract. This was not somebody vaguely remembering unsafe behavior. This was somebody saying he saw exactly how close it came to being a disaster.
The replies came back about how you would expect. One person jumped on the excuse itself and basically said the answer to “How was I supposed to know?” is firearm safety rule number one. Others agreed cutting the guy off was the right move. Nobody in there was treating it like one dumb mistake that deserved a shrug. The feeling all through the thread was that once somebody mixes alcohol, loaded guns, and that level of carelessness, there is not much left to argue about.
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