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that chick from the L.A. Guns albumare you ing re ed? How many people ride their gun to work?
Everytime a pro-gun nut answers with 'would you ban cars as well?' a puppy is dropkicked off the Grand Canyon.
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NRA: 200+ Hate Crimes Committed With Guns "Not Freaking Happening Often Enough To Merit Mention"
The National Rifle Association's online magazine attacked an analysis of federal data that found that more than 200 hate crimes were committed with firearms between 2011 and 2013, writing that the number is not "enough to merit mention." The gun group also falsely claimed that the data in question "shows firearms are not being used in hate crimes." The NRA's stunning statements come less than two months after a white man shot to death nine African-American parishioners at a historically black church in South Carolina, in what authorities have classified as a racially-motivated attack.
An Aug. 12 article in the NRA's online magazine, America's 1st Freedom, headlined, "Gun Hating Justifies Race-Baiting," accuses The Trace of "twisting federal data to taint guns with the most radioactive subject in American politics: race" because it published an article that analyzed federal hate crime data to determine how many incidents involved guns.
Although only recently launched, The Trace -- an online venture that describes itself as "an independent, nonprofit media organization dedicated to expanding coverage of guns in the United States" -- has quickly become a target for criticism by NRA-run media, which span online, print, and radio. (Though editorially independent, The Trace received part of its seed funding from Everytown for Gun Safety, whose founder, Michael Bloomberg, is perhaps the NRA's top adversary in the gun debate.)
In an Aug. 10 article, The Trace analyzed data from the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and found that between 2011 and 2013, 207 hate crimes involving firearms were reported. As The Trace notes -- and even the NRA acknowledges -- only around one-third of police departments in the country report this type of data to the FBI. In addition to hate crimes that go unreported, this means that the total number of hate crimes committed with guns is very likely greater than the number of incidents in the NIBRS.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08...not-fre/204924
Police more likely to be killed on duty in states with high gun ownership
Camden and Newark, New Jersey, are perceived as two of the most violent cities in the nation, yet New Jersey's police officersare among the least likely to get shot on the job.
Montana, with its serene landscapes and national parks, has among the highesthomicide rates for law enforcement officers. Why?
Across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, homicides of police officers are linked to the statewide level of gunownership, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
The study found that police officersserving in states with high private gun ownership are more than three times more likely to be killed on the job than those on thejob in states with the lowest gun ownership.
Previous studies have linked firearm ownership with higher overall firearm death rates in the United States and internationally.
Until now, none of the studies have examined the increased risk to law enforcement personnel.
"If we're interested in protecting police officers, we need to look at what's killing them, and what's killing them is guns," saysthe study's lead author, David Swedler, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences in theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
"We know that 92 percent of police officers killed in the line of duty are killed by guns, three*quarters of which are handguns,"Swedler said.Swedler and his colleagues looked at the homicide rates of police officers by state between 1996 and 2010 using data from theFederal Bureau of Investigation database, which logs every officer killed in the line of duty.
Law enforcement homicide rateswere calculated as the number of officers killed by guns per number of officers employed in each state.8/13/2015 Police more likely to be killed on duty in states with high gun ownershiphttp://phys.org/print358681887.html 2/2
Statewide gun ownership rates were calculated using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual nationwidesurvey that collects data over a wide range of health topics (including household firearm ownership) as well as state*level dataon gun*related suicides, which have been proven to accurately reflect gun ownership rates.
Of the 782 homicides of police officers over the study period, 716 were committed using guns; 515 of them with handguns.
States averaged one law enforcement officer homicide per year, but because states vary in the number of officers employed,some had higher numbers of officer homicides, while other states had none.
On average, the researchers found that 38 percent of U.S. households have at least one gun, ranging from 4.8 percent ofhouseholds in the District of Columbia to 62 percent in Wyoming.Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi and Montana were in the top quintile both for gun ownership and for law enforcementhomicides, while Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island were in the lowest quintile for gunownership and police officer homicides.
"We found that officers aren't being killed in states with high violent*crime rates.
While violent crime rates didn't track closelyto officer homicide rates, it was public gun ownership that had the strongest relationship," Swedler said.
"Hypothetically, officers might be put at increased risk if they are more frequently encountering violent criminals, but our datadoesn't find that to be the case," said Swedler.
"We find that officers are at an increased risk for being killed the morefrequently they encounter guns in public settings."
Swedler says that one reason why high gun ownership and police officer killing are so closely linked is that many officers getshot while responding to domestic disturbance calls.
"Research shows that responding to domestic violence calls are one of the most common situations in which officers are killed.In states where firearms are more prevalent, officers responding to reports of domestic violence are more often enteringpotentially lethal situations compared to officers responding to such calls in states with lower firearm prevalence," Swedlersaid.Based on their data, Swedler and his colleagues estimate that a 10 percent higher statewide firearm ownership would haveresulted in 10 more law enforcement officer homicides in each state over the 15 year study period.
"Statewide firearm ownership is definitely a risk factor for police officers," Swedler said. "Higher private gun ownershipincreases the frequency with which officers encounter life*threatening situations. If we care about the safety of those officers,then we need to think about them when considering state gun laws."
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-police-...-high-gun.html
police lives matter to boutons when it fits his agenda lolPolice more likely to be killed on duty in states with high gun ownership
Camden and Newark, New Jersey, are perceived as two of the most violent cities in the nation, yet New Jersey's police officersare among the least likely to get shot on the job.
Montana, with its serene landscapes and national parks, has among the highesthomicide rates for law enforcement officers. Why?
Across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, homicides of police officers are linked to the statewide level of gunownership, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
The study found that police officersserving in states with high private gun ownership are more than three times more likely to be killed on the job than those on thejob in states with the lowest gun ownership.
Previous studies have linked firearm ownership with higher overall firearm death rates in the United States and internationally.
Until now, none of the studies have examined the increased risk to law enforcement personnel.
"If we're interested in protecting police officers, we need to look at what's killing them, and what's killing them is guns," saysthe study's lead author, David Swedler, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences in theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
"We know that 92 percent of police officers killed in the line of duty are killed by guns, three*quarters of which are handguns,"Swedler said.Swedler and his colleagues looked at the homicide rates of police officers by state between 1996 and 2010 using data from theFederal Bureau of Investigation database, which logs every officer killed in the line of duty.
Law enforcement homicide rateswere calculated as the number of officers killed by guns per number of officers employed in each state.8/13/2015 Police more likely to be killed on duty in states with high gun ownershiphttp://phys.org/print358681887.html 2/2
Statewide gun ownership rates were calculated using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual nationwidesurvey that collects data over a wide range of health topics (including household firearm ownership) as well as state*level dataon gun*related suicides, which have been proven to accurately reflect gun ownership rates.
Of the 782 homicides of police officers over the study period, 716 were committed using guns; 515 of them with handguns.
States averaged one law enforcement officer homicide per year, but because states vary in the number of officers employed,some had higher numbers of officer homicides, while other states had none.
On average, the researchers found that 38 percent of U.S. households have at least one gun, ranging from 4.8 percent ofhouseholds in the District of Columbia to 62 percent in Wyoming.Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi and Montana were in the top quintile both for gun ownership and for law enforcementhomicides, while Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island were in the lowest quintile for gunownership and police officer homicides.
"We found that officers aren't being killed in states with high violent*crime rates.
While violent crime rates didn't track closelyto officer homicide rates, it was public gun ownership that had the strongest relationship," Swedler said.
"Hypothetically, officers might be put at increased risk if they are more frequently encountering violent criminals, but our datadoesn't find that to be the case," said Swedler.
"We find that officers are at an increased risk for being killed the morefrequently they encounter guns in public settings."
Swedler says that one reason why high gun ownership and police officer killing are so closely linked is that many officers getshot while responding to domestic disturbance calls.
"Research shows that responding to domestic violence calls are one of the most common situations in which officers are killed.In states where firearms are more prevalent, officers responding to reports of domestic violence are more often enteringpotentially lethal situations compared to officers responding to such calls in states with lower firearm prevalence," Swedlersaid.Based on their data, Swedler and his colleagues estimate that a 10 percent higher statewide firearm ownership would haveresulted in 10 more law enforcement officer homicides in each state over the 15 year study period.
"Statewide firearm ownership is definitely a risk factor for police officers," Swedler said. "Higher private gun ownershipincreases the frequency with which officers encounter life*threatening situations. If we care about the safety of those officers,then we need to think about them when considering state gun laws."
http://phys.org/news/2015-08-police-...-high-gun.html
gun fellators perverse, WRONG interpretation of the 2nd Amendment trumps cops' and anybodys' lives.
A Culture Clash Over Guns Infiltrates the Backcountry
Shotgun s s. Bullets. Shredded juniper trees. Exploded cans of spray paint.
“It’s all been shot,” he said. “It’s just destroying everything.”
America’s cultural divide over guns has gone into the woods. As growing numbers of hikers and backpackers flood national forests and backcountry trails searching for solitude, they are increasingly clashing with recreational target shooters, out for the weekend to plug rounds into trees, targets and mountainsides.
Hiking groups and conservationists say that policies that broadly allow shooting and a scarcity of enforcement officers have turned many national forests and millions of Western acres run by the Bureau of Land Management into free-fire zones. People complain about finding shot-up couches and cars deep in forests, or of being pinned down by gunfire where a hiking or biking trail crosses a makeshift target range.
Over the Fourth of July weekend in Pike National Forest in Colorado, a 60-year-old camper preparing to make s’mores with his grandchildren was killed when a stray bullet arced into his campsite. The camper, Glenn Martin, said “ow,” his daughter said, and when his family ran to help him, there was a hole in his shirt and blood pouring from his mouth.
“A war zone,” said Paul Magnuson, who owns a cycle shop in Woodland Park, Colo., and rides mountain bikes in the same forest where Mr. Martin died. His customers have complained about bullets whistling overhead, and Mr. Magnuson said he has gotten used to yelling out to alert target shooters that he was coming.
“Every time in the woods, you feared for your life,” he said. “It was absolutely, completely out of hand.”
The violation logs from the bureau are a tally of risky behavior: Shooting from vehicle. Weapon discharge in campground. Shooting at television. Using exploding targets.
Shooting in “no shooting area.”
“All you can do is hear it,” he said. “Like a mixture of thunder and gunfire, just rolling through the mountains.”
want to permanently ban shooting because they say it is jeopardizing hundreds of petroglyphs that Native Americans pecked onto sandstone outcroppings and boulders as long as 10,000 years ago. Advocates say the mountainside is an open-air museum, one where bullets have struck the petroglyphs, chipping and cracking the runic swirls and wiry images of people and animals.
“We’ve had serious damage,” said Kevin Oliver, district manager for the bureau’s West Desert district. “The shooting was so dense we had to do something.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/us/a-culture-clash-over-guns-infiltrates-the-backcountry.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
"With small s and small brains comes great destruction"
'Patriot' guarding 'Muslim free' gun store accidentally shoots himself
The Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store and gun range has had a string of ugly incidents after declaring they are "Muslim free":
“We do not want to have any jihadis training on our gun range and then going down to our local armed services office and having better marksmanship than they showed up with,” said Neal, an Iraq War veteran. “I’ve seen what Muslims and jihadis do to people. It’s just not going to happen in my store.”
Several residents of tiny Oktaha, Oklahoma (population 390) have turned out to stand in front of the store and guard it with loaded weapons. Yesterday, one of these men accidentally shot himself while "on guard":
A Checotah man shot himself in the wrist while "defending" a survival gear store and shooting range in Oktaha, said Muskogee County Sheriff Charles Pearson.Terrence Veninga, 57, was volunteering Tuesday morning as an armed guard with several other self-described patriots at the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store and gun range, a self-professed Muslim-free store.
His gun, an old Colt .45 revolver, fell from its bucket holster and discharged. The bullet hit him in the wrist, Pearson said. Veninga was guarding the store because of alleged threats against it, Pearson said.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...f?detail=email
NRA Smears Martin O'Malley As A Friend To Criminals With First 2016 Campaign Magazine Cover
The National Rifle Association's magazine America's 1st Freedom attacks Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on its first cover focused on the 2016 presidential race. The issue's feature article outlandishly accuses the former Maryland governor of offering "hope and change to convicted killers and criminals," but the organization's overheated rhetoric is based on unfounded attacks on O'Malley's record.
The September edition of the magazine features a cover characterizing O'Malley, who served as governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015, as a "menace" to the Second Amendment who has "made a mockery of Maryland's gun rights":
The NRA's feature attacks O'Malley on two fronts,
claiming that he poses a threat to Second Amendment rights and
accusing him of taking the side of criminals in Maryland -- even though courts have sided with O'Malley on gun laws and violent crime fell significantly during his tenure as governor.
Angered by O'Malley's strong support for a package of gun safety laws enacted in Maryland in 2013 following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the NRA claims O'Malley "imposed the most draconian new gun bans anywhere in the country" before offering attacks from the top two members of NRA leadership.
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre is quoted in the article claiming O'Malley "has presided over some of the most spectacular, bloody and brutal failures of 'gun control' in our nation's history," while NRA top lobbyist Chris Cox suggests O'Malley becoming president could trigger "a fight for the survival of Second Amendment freedom as we know it."
The NRA also objects to O'Malley's response to the massacre of nine parishioners in a historically African-American Charleston, South Carolina, church in June, sneering that the former Maryland governor acted "decidedly un-presidential" when he wrote an email to supporters declaring he was "pissed" about inaction on gun violence while calling for bans on assault weapons and stronger background checks on gun sales.
Despite the gun group's suggestion O'Malley is jeopardizing the Second Amendment, as the article itself notes, the package of Maryland gun safety laws was upheld by a federal court.
Indeed, according to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, gun safety laws signed by O'Malley are "cons utional" because they "substantially serve[] the government's interest in protecting public safety ... without significantly burdening" Second Amendment rights.
Furthermore gun safety laws like those signed by O'Malley, including handgun licensing and bans on assault weapons, are routinely upheld as consistent with the Second Amendment by courts.
The second prong of the NRA's attack characterizes O'Malley as weak on crime, arguing, "As governor of Maryland, O'Malley doubled down on some of the same failed crime policies that he had ins uted in Baltimore."
Violent crime actually fell 27.3 percent in Maryland while O'Malley was governor. Crime in Baltimore also fellsignificantly while O'Malley was mayor between 1999 and 2007.
Given this fact, the NRA stretches believability in its crime-related attacks on O'Malley. In one section the NRA nonsensically links O'Malley to a judicial decision that overturned convictions for several murderers (emphasis original): "Moreover, in 2013, a ruling by the Maryland Supreme Court resulted in convicted murderers being released from one end of 'The Free State' to the other, including more than a dozen killers in Baltimore alone. Nonetheless, Gov. O'Malley boasted in a State of the State Address that the Maryland prison population had fallen to the lowest point in decades under his leadership."
As the head of Maryland's executive branch, O'Malley of course had no control over Maryland's highest court, which is actually called the Court of Appeals, not the Maryland Supreme Court. In any case, the overturned convictions dealt with cases pre-dating 1980 -- when O'Malley would have been 17-years-old -- where judges had instructed juries in a manner that violated the defendant's right to a fair trial.
The NRA concludes its attack on O'Malley's record on crime by claiming that as governor he "was quick to offer hope and change to convicted killers and criminals" and that "he also did his best to take away the last, best hope of innocent, law-abiding citizens to protect themselves from those criminals."
In one final unhinged attack that ties together claims about O'Malley on gun policy and crime, the NRA riffs on O'Malley's comments on "Black Lives Matter" to argue that "the lives that apparently don't matter to O'Malley are those of law-abiding citizens":
In June, speaking to the United States Conference of Mayors' annual gathering in San Francisco--where the current mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was sworn in as president of the organization--O'Malley said, "One of the sad triumphs of white racism is the degree to which it has succeeded in subconsciously convincing so many of us, black and white, that somehow black lives don't matter."
In truth, the lives that apparently don't matter to O'Malley are those of law-abiding citizens--no matter what their background.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08...-crimin/205084
Like the Repugs LYING and SLANDERING to rouse their rabble, the NRA/GOA groups LIE AND SLANDER to lather up the ignorance of sicko gun fellatin marans.
NRA Smears Martin O'Malley As A Friend To Criminals With First 2016 Campaign Magazine Cover
The National Rifle Association's magazine America's 1st Freedom attacks Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on its first cover focused on the 2016 presidential race. The issue's feature article outlandishly accuses the former Maryland governor of offering "hope and change to convicted killers and criminals," but the organization's overheated rhetoric is based on unfounded attacks on O'Malley's record.
The September edition of the magazine features a cover characterizing O'Malley, who served as governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015, as a "menace" to the Second Amendment who has "made a mockery of Maryland's gun rights":
The NRA's feature attacks O'Malley on two fronts,
claiming that he poses a threat to Second Amendment rights and
accusing him of taking the side of criminals in Maryland -- even though courts have sided with O'Malley on gun laws and violent crime fell significantly during his tenure as governor.
Angered by O'Malley's strong support for a package of gun safety laws enacted in Maryland in 2013 following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the NRA claims O'Malley "imposed the most draconian new gun bans anywhere in the country" before offering attacks from the top two members of NRA leadership.
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre is quoted in the article claiming O'Malley "has presided over some of the most spectacular, bloody and brutal failures of 'gun control' in our nation's history," while NRA top lobbyist Chris Cox suggests O'Malley becoming president could trigger "a fight for the survival of Second Amendment freedom as we know it."
The NRA also objects to O'Malley's response to the massacre of nine parishioners in a historically African-American Charleston, South Carolina, church in June, sneering that the former Maryland governor acted "decidedly un-presidential" when he wrote an email to supporters declaring he was "pissed" about inaction on gun violence while calling for bans on assault weapons and stronger background checks on gun sales.
Despite the gun group's suggestion O'Malley is jeopardizing the Second Amendment, as the article itself notes, the package of Maryland gun safety laws was upheld by a federal court.
Indeed, according to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, gun safety laws signed by O'Malley are "cons utional" because they "substantially serve[] the government's interest in protecting public safety ... without significantly burdening" Second Amendment rights.
Furthermore gun safety laws like those signed by O'Malley, including handgun licensing and bans on assault weapons, are routinely upheld as consistent with the Second Amendment by courts.
The second prong of the NRA's attack characterizes O'Malley as weak on crime, arguing, "As governor of Maryland, O'Malley doubled down on some of the same failed crime policies that he had ins uted in Baltimore."
Violent crime actually fell 27.3 percent in Maryland while O'Malley was governor. Crime in Baltimore also fellsignificantly while O'Malley was mayor between 1999 and 2007.
Given this fact, the NRA stretches believability in its crime-related attacks on O'Malley. In one section the NRA nonsensically links O'Malley to a judicial decision that overturned convictions for several murderers (emphasis original): "Moreover, in 2013, a ruling by the Maryland Supreme Court resulted in convicted murderers being released from one end of 'The Free State' to the other, including more than a dozen killers in Baltimore alone. Nonetheless, Gov. O'Malley boasted in a State of the State Address that the Maryland prison population had fallen to the lowest point in decades under his leadership."
As the head of Maryland's executive branch, O'Malley of course had no control over Maryland's highest court, which is actually called the Court of Appeals, not the Maryland Supreme Court. In any case, the overturned convictions dealt with cases pre-dating 1980 -- when O'Malley would have been 17-years-old -- where judges had instructed juries in a manner that violated the defendant's right to a fair trial.
The NRA concludes its attack on O'Malley's record on crime by claiming that as governor he "was quick to offer hope and change to convicted killers and criminals" and that "he also did his best to take away the last, best hope of innocent, law-abiding citizens to protect themselves from those criminals."
In one final unhinged attack that ties together claims about O'Malley on gun policy and crime, the NRA riffs on O'Malley's comments on "Black Lives Matter" to argue that "the lives that apparently don't matter to O'Malley are those of law-abiding citizens":
In June, speaking to the United States Conference of Mayors' annual gathering in San Francisco--where the current mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was sworn in as president of the organization--O'Malley said, "One of the sad triumphs of white racism is the degree to which it has succeeded in subconsciously convincing so many of us, black and white, that somehow black lives don't matter."
In truth, the lives that apparently don't matter to O'Malley are those of law-abiding citizens--no matter what their background.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08...-crimin/205084
Like the Repugs LYING and SLANDERING to rouse their rabble, the NRA/GOA groups LIE AND SLANDER to lather up the ignorance of sicko gun fellatin marans.
Speaking of the NRA I just picked this up yesterday. Ruger 10-22 takedown NRA edition.
Got this folding buttstock on it's way as well.
Road Raging Florida Man Points Gun at a Mom and Her Son, Ends Up Accidentally Shooting Himself
http://www.alternet.org/culture/road...ooting-himself
GunFAIL report
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dumb: GunFAIL CXXXVIII
Six of the 41 guns discovered by TSA agents at airports around the country during the week of September 4 through September 10, 2015.
More of the usual.
Seventeen people accidentally shot themselves.
Five people accidentally fired bullets into their neighbors' homes or properties.
Two people accidentally discharged weapons while out shopping or dining.
Three people injured themselves at shooting ranges.
Two people accidentally discharged still-loaded guns they were cleaning—one shooting himself, the other shooting someone else.
Like I said: More of the usual. Though on the "bright" side, only six kids were the victims of GunFAIL last week, and only two of them were fatally shot. Mind you, that's a "good" week.
One of the more unusual stories in the collection this week: A GunFAIL without a gun. Now, you might think that a GunFAIL without a gun doesn't belong here. But it takes a special kind of FAIL for a gunless incident to make our list. In this case, what's even more interesting than the fact that a bullet was dropped at a gun range and hit the floor at just the perfect (and rather improbable) angle so as to explode and give the dropper a shrapnel wound, is that we've actually seen this before. Exactly the same thing happened just under a year ago at a range in Lemoore, California. It's almost as if all GunFAIL—even bizarre GunFAIL, and even bizarre, gunless GunFAIL—is still somehow cyclical. Though admittedly, I have yet to see anothertoaster accident.
I have, however, seen this one several times before: Yet another wannabe cowboy who doesn't know that spinning a gun on your finger is something you can only (but still shouldn't) do with a single-action revolver, and not just any gun.
And in a new twist on an old favorite (that is, the bathroom GunFAIL) is our le entry, in which the world's worst babysitter, unable to safely manage the .45 tucked into his waistband (standard babysitting equipment, as we all know), accidentally fired his weapon straight through the bathroom wall and straight into his 8-year-old charge, who until then was sleeping peacefully in his bed. Sorry about that! Ten dollars off your next bill, Mom and Dad!
A full recounting of the week's failures is below.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...8Daily+Kos%29#
Why Would a Nine-Year-Old Bring a Gun to School?
Since the start of the school year, more than two dozen kids have been caught bringing firearms to class.
Last week, a teacher at Amanda Elementary School in Middletown, Ohio,found a loaded handgun inside the backpack of a 9-year-old boy while helping him clean out his locker. The incident triggered a lockdown, and the unidentified boy, who reportedly stole his parents’ car twice this summer, was placed in a juvenile detention facility and charged with illegal possession of a deadly weapon and firearm theft.
When a student so young brings a deadly weapon to school, a number of questions arise:
How did they get their hands on it?
Why wasn’t it safely stored?
Will the parents be charged?
And what would make a child bring a gun to school in the first place?
Since the school year began roughly one month ago, there have been at least 29 incidents in which elementary, middle school, and high school students were caught bringing firearms to school, according to a survey of media reports. Most have involved teenagers.
http://www.thetrace.org/2015/09/gun-...child-firearm/
DOG shoots MAN: Brave pooch halts hapless puppy execution
A man attempting to shoot seven puppies got a taste of his own medicine when he was instead shot by one of the dogs.
According to the Associated Press, Jerry Allen Bradford, of Florida, decided to shoot the dogs after failing to find a home for them.
Bradford was holding two of the pups, when one dog in his hand wiggled and put its paw on the trigger. The gun then discharged, reported AP.
He was later treated at a hospital for a gunshot wound to his wrist.
Deputies found three of the puppies in a shallow grave outside Bradford’s home, sheriff’s Ted Roy told the AP.
The other four appeared to be in good health and were taken by Escambia County Animal Control, which planned to make them available for adoption said the report.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/22/dog_shoots_man/
That is a bad mofo 9 year old
White Man Trying to Buy Gun Shoots Self in Penis, Blames it On a Black Guy
South Dakota man is currently in custody after telling police officers he was shot in the penis by a “black guy” when he actually shot himself while attempting to purchase a gun illegally,
Convicted felon Donald Anthony Watson, 43, was admitted to a local emergency room late at night on Sept. 6 for a gunshot wound to his penis, and told local law enforcement that he had been shot during a botched robbery.
According to the arrest report, Watson said he was shot by “a black guy (who) tried to rob” him while he was taking out the trash at his apartment.
Investigators who went to Watson’s apartment said there was no evidence of a shooting outside, but neighbors told them they heard screaming coming from his apartment earlier in the evening.
After obtaining a search warrant, officer entered his home and found blood, bullet fragments, and an empty gun case.
Pressed by police, Watson admitted that he made the story up and was looking at a handgun he was thinking about buying and placed it in his pocket where it went off, with the bullet hitting his genitals.
http://www.alternet.org/culture/whit...s-it-black-guy
Texas ‘good guy with a gun’ shoots carjacking victim in head — then runs away
Houston police say that an armed man’s attempt to stop a carjacking went terribly wrong on Saturday night when he shot the vehicle’s owner in the head, then fled the scene.According to KHOU Channel 11 News, the shooting took place around 11:15 p.m. at a Valero gas station in north Houston.
Police officials say that two men jumped the owner of a Chevrolet pickup truck and absconded with his vehicle.
As the men struggled with the car-owner, a passerby produced a gun and fired multiple shots, missing the thieves but striking the victim in the head.
The shooter quickly gathered up his s casings from the pavement and fled the scene.
The injured man was rushed to a nearby hospital where he is currently in stable condition.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/texa...e+Raw+Story%29
'No open carry' signs are likely to trigger next Texas gun debate
The next tussle over Texas’ new open carry law is likely to come over one of its more mundane requirements: signs.
Starting in January, licensed Texans will be able to openly carry handguns in belt or shoulder holsters. Business owners who want patrons to leave their weapons behind will have to post one new large sign and revise one they already have.
No one considers the new rules to be a monumental burden, but some worry property owners could be caught off guard.
The signs must meet strict rules on appearance, wording and text size.
And with some gun owners eager to take advantage of signs that aren’t exactly correct, critics of the law fear that businesses will bear the brunt of battles over the measure.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Rep. Poncho Nevárez, an Eagle Pass Democrat who pushed unsuccessfully this year to make the signs easier to post. “The intent of the business owner is disregarded.”
Many open carry supporters consider the concern, like many others, overblown.
Business owners, regardless of what signs they post, will still be able to orally tell gun carriers they are not welcome. And some boosters argue the vast majority of gun owners in Texas will honor businesses’ request — even if a sign isn’t exactly to spec.
“Most gun owners respect private property rights,” said Open Carry Texas leader C.J. Grisham.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/polit...gun-debate.ece
gun fellators are in sickos
We don't have a problem with guns, we have a problem with mental health issues.Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe
In what would, in a sane nation, be a national outrage, a responsible lover of the Second Amendment murdered his two little boys, aged three and four, before turning the gun on himself and not quite managing to commit suicide.
In a sane nation, there might also be something shocking about this being the second time since December that a vocal open-carry advocate has shot family members to death.
But we live in America, so it’s just one more story that we’ll read, shake our heads at, and perhaps wonder if it’s ever going to be time to talk about guns.
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So it sure sounds like Shawn Fuller was just a typical American gun-humper, albeit perhaps a more frequently liquored-up version of the standard model. His sudden drunken murder of his children shouldn’t be blamed on guns, of course — he could have killed them any number of ways, as our deleted commenters are sure to remind us.
And most gun owners aren’t angry drunks, or at least we hope they aren’t. But Shawn Fuller had a gun handy when he was drunk and angry, and it sure is remarkable how often that combination ends up with somebody dead and a mother sobbing.
Still, the super-patriot open-carry gun-humpers are right about one thing: The Second Amendment ensured that Josiah Fuller and Uriah Fuller won’t ever have to live under a tyrannical, out-of control government that crushes their liberty.
http://wonkette.com/592820/open-carr...amendment-safe
guns enable mental sickos to be murderous or suicidal sickos.We don't have a problem with guns, we have a problem with mental health issues.
obviously just another mentally ill crazy, a bad apple, not your avg angelic, heavily, expertly trained, rational, restrained gun fellator
ATF agent arrested at Texas high school football game for assaulting man and waving gun at crowd
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/atf-...e+Raw+Story%29
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The Mother Jones/Vox claim that states with the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest gun murder rates is bull .
add in accidental gun deaths, suicides, and ALWAYS: more guns = more gun violence, deaths.
The Mother Jones/Vox claim that states with the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest gun murder rates is bull .
http://wkrn.com/2015/10/04/8-year-ol...r-old-suspect/
Guns don't kill people, children kill people...
And why are they arresting an 11 year old child and not the parent who gave access to a shotgun?
8-year-old girl dies in east Tenn. shooting; Police arrest 11-yr-old suspect
WHITE PINE, Tenn. (WATE) – A shooting Sunday morning in White Pine left an 8-year-old girl dead and an 11-year-old boy arrested on first-degree murder charges.
Jefferson County Sheriff G.W “Bud” McCoig said the boy shot the girl in the chest with a 12-gauge shotgun from inside his home along Robin Road. Sheriff McCoig added that the gun belonged to the boy’s father. The boy’s name is not being released at this time.
According to her mother, Latasha Dyer, McKayla was found lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to her chest. She was taken to Morristown-Hamblen hospital, where she later died.
“She was a precious little girl, she was a mommy’s girl, no matter how bad of a mood you were in she could always make you smile,” Dyer said.
She added that her daughter was outside playing when her next door neighbor, an 11-year-old boy, asked to see her puppy. She said her daughter told the boy “no,” and shortly after the, 11-year-old boy shot her. The shooting wasn’t the first time their family had problems with the boy, according to Dyer.
“When we first moved to White Pine, the little boy was bullying McKayla,” she said.
“He was making fun of her, calling her names just being mean to her. I had to go the principal about him and he quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her.”
WATE reached out to the boy’s family for comment, but received no answer. Dyer said she’s heartbroken and their entire family is devastated.
“I want her back in my arms, this is not fair, hold and kiss you’re babies every night because you’re never promised the next day with them,” said Dyer.
“I hope the little boy learned his lesson because he took my baby’s life and I can’t get her back.”
Both children were White Pine Elementary students, according to Sheriff McCoig.
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