May Theseus grant you new life.

Well said.

My neighbor would be upgrading my computer for me if this happened

but they had that dog in them

Every dog IS a son of a bitch but not every son of a bitch is a dog.

Looks like it got a ram bar. Also what would deflect the bullet if it missed everything?

I wonder if they'll have to pay for the single module or the set

I'd rather need new ram than a new rib, lung, kidney etc

This must be a part of Sam Altman's grand plan to end general purpose consumer electronics.

Well, to be fair, it was ChatGPT that told the dog it was ok to shoot.

Might as well add another layer of unaccountability.

This person obviously relied heavily on the "my dog ate my homework" excuse to get them through school and thought it might work here too.

America is fucking broken when it comes to guns. Like I get that they are emotional support toys for some people, but keeping it locked and loaded is absolute idiocy that way too many people defend.

But it was in use. By the dog.

Are you suggesting the dog couldn’t have accessed the gun in the safe and shot through the wall? Why would you assume a gun owner is capable of being irresponsible? You must be that fake news I hear so much about.

All my guns are unloaded and in a safe, and my ammo is in a separate safe. Some people are complete idiots though and in a country with such liberal gun policies, this is the result. I am all for sensible gun control, and I hope this dumbass never gets their hands on another one, but knowing this country she still won't fail a background check.

Hey, so, as she's being charged for it, the fact is she was negligent because it wasn't properly secured....

So, uhh, what are you saying?

Where I live, you need artillery to shoot through a house wall. Plus, the part about gun safes, not storing loaded, and ammo stored and locked separately.

Exactly, poor defence for negligence.

XTREME NEGLIGENCE! Watch this baby pull a pistol out of the couch cushions and SHOOT THE DAD! This isolated, abused teen has access to SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARMS because his parents don't believe in a GUN SAFE! Watch the CARNAGE Carnage carnage!

I own guns. I enjoy shooting paper targets at the range and clay disks flying through the air. I grew up around guns on a farm. I’m very comfortable handling them.

Me, and responsible people like me, are PARANOID about gun safety. Even if I KNOW it’s unloaded, I never point it in an unsafe direction. Like, not even towards the right because my neighbors house is that way 300 yards away through a concrete basement wall etc. I never point it at something I don’t intend to kill/destroy, and my finger never touches the trigger unless I intend to pull it. When the gun isn’t in my direct and immediate control - it’s locked up.

I HATE assholes like the person in this story. They deserve criminal negligence, their guns taken away forever, and some community penalty that’s severe. There is no way in hell “the dog did it”. Give me a break. At best, they were cleaning it in an unsafe manner and did some very negligent things (didn’t check the chamber, pointed it at their neighbor, pulled the god damn trigger), OR they were being a complete jackass and waving it around gangster style.

Including the pets.

My cat encouraged me to buy guns. Something about overthrowing human bourgeois and installing a cat proletariat government,

The book "dying of whiteness" has a whole section about this. They interview a lot of people who are survivors of gun suicide and find that for political reasons they don't want gun control, even as they admit their loved ones are dead because guns made it so easy to die. One of them even privately says she agrees, but would never say so in public.

Twice recently.

The other time was not the first time

Anything that happens or is done more than once is tradition.

Please! Think of the GPU!

And oh... The RAM.. that poor fucking RAM never had a chance... Did it have a family?

It looks like it's just some of the RAM and the mobo. The obviously-AI article says they got $3500. The Insurance probably views the whole unit as one item and pays for it all. Unless the owner is a dumbass and says "oh, just pay me for the parts that were damaged and I'll salvage the rest."

The fuck to have a unsecured firearm lying around.

The fuck to even have a firearm.