The above photo is of the Irish Minister of Defense, Willie O’Dea, presumably joking around with reporters and photographers, at an army training camp in County Kildare. It has unsurprisingly caused some controversy in the Emerald Isle.

Imagine if Donald Rumsfeld behaved this way?

Anyway, as a service both to Irish readers and other foreign ministers of defense, here is a link to the National Rifle Association’s Gun Safety Rules, the first one of which reads:

1. ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.

This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances.

Was it me that shot him down in the cantina
Was it my hand that held the gun?
Come, let us fly, my Magdalena
The dogs are barking and what’s done is done.

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