Gunnuttery category archive

Daniel Ruth reviews the polls sampling public opinion about gunnuttery, then does the math:

But those figures, as well as at least 2,657 shooting deaths since Newtown, are irrelevant. Here’s the number that really matters: 255. That’s the number that means the probability of getting a truly rational gun control bill passed is about the same as Carnival Cruise Lines being named vacation destination of the year.

The 255 figure represents the members of the House and Senate who are card-carrying members of the quaint-sounding Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, which is an L.L. Bean kind of way of saying these folks are the willing handmaidens of the gun lobby. Put another way, nearly half of Congress is a pretty reliable vote to kill or water down any effort to bring a pinch of coherency to the nation’s frothing gun culture.

More math at the link.

Be polite to those with whom you live.

Fulton police spokeswoman Melissa Parker told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the two roommates had been “arguing all day,” when one “finally just pulled a gun and shot the other.”

Bring this scourge to an end.

Mandating that every roommate pack heat seems to be indicated.

Resolve differences with your significant other politely.

County police Lt. Andrew Schurman said 25-year-old David Mazzocco, of Imperial, began shooting at the Fort Pitt Inn on Steubenville Pike moments after a heated text-message exchange with a girlfriend.

(snip)

None of the handguns was registered to Mr. Mazzocco, who county police said was barred from owning guns.

Police also found a fourth gun — a loaded AR-15 assault-style rifle — inside Mr. Mazzocco’s truck in the parking lot, Lt. Schurman said.

Always be polite to your friends.

He was shot by his friend, a 19-year-old man who remained on the scene and was taken into custody by police without incident. The friend told police he had been handling the gun when it accidentally went off.

I grew up shooting.

Really, now.

Guns may go off by stupid, but they don’t go off by accident. Accidents are not allowed.

If you want teh stupid, gunnuttery is teh stupid.

Via PoliticalProf.

Guarding politeness in schools:

A New York town that began assigning an armed police officer to guard a high school in the wake of the Connecticut massacre has suspended the program after an officer accidentally discharged his pistol in a hallway while classes were in session.

You realize this won’t end the gun nuts’ gun fantasies.

The fetish is too overwhelming.

Via Bob Cesca.

Mandate politeness.

That will certainly work out well.

Shop with courtesy.

Angered that a Walmart employee refused to honor a “dollar-off” coupon, a Florida woman allegedly retrieved a handgun from her car and waved the weapon at several store employees, police allege.

Be polite to your elders.

Two teens are scheduled to appear in a Wyoming court Tuesday in the killing of a woman and her parents in a tiny town near the Montana border where residents say they’ve been left shaken by the violence.

According to the story, at least two of the victims were shot.

A cry for help, or just too stupid to have access to a computer?

A 17-year-old student was arrested today after threatening on Facebook to shoot someone at El Camino High School during school on Monday.

The carnage continues.

Via Bartcop.

Web-based organizations with ties to Moveon.org, an advocacy group that backed President Barack Obama’s re-election, want to shrink the NRA’s membership by eliminating an incentive to join — cheaper hotel rooms and car rentals.

That would diminish the gun lobby’s clout as it tries to block Congress from enacting new legislation in the aftermath of the December mass shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the advocacy groups reason.

I doubt this will work.

I suspect that persons do not join the gun fan club for the discounts.

I don’t know whether I am typical–probably not–but I support several organizations which offer travel discounts, and I never think of them when I’m actually traveling.

Teachers who want to know about firearms got their chance this weekend in Rowan County.

The Salisbury Post reported that the Rowan County Wildlife Association offered free classes in firearms instructions in case legislators approve bill to let teachers carry guns.

Try as hard as I can, I cannot imagine Mrs. Yagley packing heat.

Please make it stop.

Watch the Freudian clip.

It doesn’t get much more Freudian than that.

Teaching politeness:

A school employee in east Texas was shot on Wednesday during a district-sponsored handgun safety training class that was designed to get more guns in public schools.

The Tyler Morning Telegraph on Thursday reported that Van Independent School District school board member Leslie Goode confirmed that “there was an accident involving one of the employees today.”

Another one of those guns with a trigger finger of its own.

Be polite to unarmed shoplifters who are running away from you.

Martinez told WKMG that he was shocked that police arrested him because he thought no one other than the shoplifter was in danger. He said he just wanted to mark the man’s car for police.

Orange City police argued that surveillance video showed that the gun owner was never in danger because McKee was in the process of fleeing when the shooting occurred.

According to the story, he also “marked” two other cars.

And he thought his High Noon fantasies had come true . . . .

A family that polites together slays together.

Denison (the grandmother–ed.) left a suicide note, drove alone to the day care, picked up the boys, took them to a nearby lake and apparently used her husband’s gun to fatally shoot them and herself, authorities and relatives said Wednesday. The bodies were found Tuesday night, about two hours after a frantic search began.

More dog-gone politeness:

Police in Sebring, Florida say a man told them that his dog accidentally shot him in the leg with a gun that he thought was unloaded.

Gregory Dale Lanier of Frostproof was riding in his truck on Feb. 23 when the dog knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor of the truck, causing it to discharge into the man’s leg, a police report indicated.

“Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr said police did not arrest the dog or detain the animal, . . . .”

Loaded gun.

On seat.

Safety off (unless the dog shot him on purpose).

Meet the gun nut.

In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Kelly Trumbull waxes poetic.