If you’re a gun owner, you probably follow some basic safety guidelines around the house.
You likely keep your ammo separate from your firearms. If you’re a more advanced owner with more firearms, you likely own a gun safe (at which point separating the ammo is somewhat unnecessary).
And if you’re the Daily Mail, you have no idea what a gun safe is.
Get a load of this headline:
“Las Vegas shooter was a ‘reclusive weirdo’ who kept his guns stashed in a refrigerator-sized SAFE and vanished suddenly in August, say his former neighbors at his Reno home,” the U.K. based news group gushed in a not-so-newsworthy headline.
The story’s sub-headline added in an ominous note: “And he had a massive and mysterious safe in his garage, for unknown reasons.”
Okay, that’s confusing. Because the headline just said the safe was for the guns. There’s a term for a secure locker in which firearms are stored. It’s called, um, a gun safe. What do they mean by unknown reasons”? How much clearer could it be?
This is how the report opens: “Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock was an unfriendly, reclusive ‘weirdo’ who barely spoke to his Reno neighbors and kept a sinister-looking giant safe in his garage, locals have claimed.”
Well, that thing they’re describing would be a gun safe, which are used to, you know, store guns.
Oddly enough, the story teeters back-and-forth between claiming the safe was used to store guns, and quoting people as saying they’re not really sure what the gunman stored in there.
If the “refrigerator-sized” safe (all-caps) was indeed used to store firearms, we’re not sure what the scoop is here.
Gun safes aren’t mysterious, they’re not rare, and they’re certainly not uncommon for gun owners, especially those with children or those who fear their guns are at risk of being stolen. Perhaps gun safes are an oddity for people who don’t own guns. Maybe it’s weird if you have basically no clue about proper gun safety guidelines.
I mean, it’s fine if a person is ignorant about the more common details of gun ownership. But should that person also be reporting about firearms?
(h/t @JBurtonXP)
