Gunnuttery category archive

Shoot first. Ask questions later, politely (emphasis added).

On that day, the dogs, 2-year-old Argus and 1-year-old Fiona, got out of their enclosed backyard when a tree branch fell and collapsed part of the fence, said Mary Bock. . . .

Some time around 11:30 a.m., Pilotti saw the dogs near his sheep, pulled out the 20-gauge single-shot shotgun he legally owned, and fired, said West Vincent Police Chief Michael Swininger. Mary Bock said police told her Pilotti first fatally shot Argus in the face, then shot and killed Fiona.

(snip)

When William Bock asked Pilotti about the incident, his reply, according to the Bocks, was “I shoot first and ask questions later.”

Shooting first, always the most polite course of action, if done with the pinkie out, natch.

Addendum:

Charges have been filed.

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Dog-gone politeness:

A man walking his dog was shot in the leg by a disgruntled motorist when the animal lurched into the road, forcing a pickup to stop.

Gun nut paradise appears to have arrived.

(Follow the link. This one’s even creepier than the excerpt implies.)

Collateral politeness.

A 90-year-old woman was shot to death overnight in Warminster Township, Bucks County, as police exchanged gunfire with a man who had barricaded himself in an apartment.

It is not clear who shot the woman.

Raise your children, politely.

An Alabama man was in surgery on Sunday after police said he shot himself and his 6-year-old daughter while cleaning his gun.

Homicide Unit commander Capt. Loyd Baker said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit had been called to the scene by Northport police to investigate a 45-year-old man who reportedly fired a round into his own leg as he was cleaning a 9 mm pistol, according to Al.com.

In the Baltimore Sun, Dan Rodricks explains that we have promulgated all this politeness:

We’ve become so accustomed to violence like this we accept it as normal. We expect it.

And, in fact, when it comes to gun violence in the U.S., what happened in College Park (yet another murder-suicide–ed.) approaches the tragically common — a gun used in a murder or in a suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 31,672 firearms-related deaths nationwide in 2010. About two-thirds of them were suicides.

This happens because we accept it.

Then there’s this, another manifestation of what happens when you enter the fearful, paranoid world of gunnuttery.

Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she’s going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while “simulating the sound of gunfire,” as one school official put it.

Kids with active imaginations? Or potential threats to school safety?

Some school officials are taking the latter view, suspending or threatening to suspend small children over behavior their parents consider perfectly normal and age-appropriate . . . .

The school officials are being silly and stupid, but silly and stupid is what grown-ups do.

There’s another issue here.

Where’s the NRA? Who’s protecting these kids’ right to bare fingers?

Aside:

Last I heard, nothing except dignity and good taste had been wounded with a Hello Kitty anything.

Exercise freedom of expression, politely.

Two union halls in Fairfield and Winslow (Maine–ed.) were shot up by BB guns, apparently in drive-by fashion, within the last four days.

This is not the first time either union office building has has been shot up. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall at 176 Main St. in Fairfield was the target of a drive-by shooting back on Nov. 29 by someone firing .22-caliber bullets. No suspects have been charged in that incident.

Steven M. explains the WATB factor in gunnuttery demonstrated by gun nuts’ quivering in fear every minute. A nugget:

Right-wingers frequently complain about what they call the liberal “nanny state” — as they see it, liberals believe ordinary elements of human life, large sodas and bicycles ridden without helmets and little kids blowing out candles at birthday parties, are dangerous and need to be policed and restricted.

But who believes ordinary life is more dangerous than right-wingers? You can never leave the house without your concealed-carry weapons, and your open-carry weapons! You’re at constant risk . . . .

Politely look both ways when crossing the road.

A Minnesota man accused of standing in the street and firing at passing cars — killing a 9-year-old boy — had roughly 200 rounds of ammunition stuffed into his jacket pocket, a backpack and the fanny pack he was wearing when arrested, prosecutors said Wednesday.

MarketWatch highlights five things that are harder to buy than a gun. You’ll be taken aback.

Be polite when dining out.

A Bend woman accidentally shot her husband when her Derringer fell out of her pocket, hit the floor and fired.

Via PoliticalProf.

Be polite in Family Court.

It was around 8:00 a.m. when the gunman walked into the public lobby of the New Castle County Court of Common Pleas, located at 500 N King Street.

According to Wilmington police, the gunman opened fire, killing two women and injuring two Capitol police officers. At least one of those women is believed to have been targeted.

In other news of the courteous, there’s this.

Addendum:

Heed the sounds of politeness:

Emma Harding and about 100 others took cover behind the counter of the Dunkin’ Donuts downstairs. Jennifer Robinson fled into a communications room. Crying, Victoria Warren, hiding in another room, phoned her brother.

“I’m scared,” she told him. “I heard gunshots.”

At Psychology Today Blogs, Gordon Livingston skewers the NRA’s red herring that better mental illness care will end the bloodshed. A nugget:

Although it is mass shootings, particularly the massacre of school children in Newtown, that capture our attention and have accelerated the current discussion, Americans for the most part kill each other with guns in one’s and twos. Of the total number of gun deaths in this country, around 30,000 a year, the majority are not the result of mental illness, but of ordinary human emotions like anger, hate, greed, and despair. In fact, about half of all shootings are suicides.

Read the rest.

Via Bob Cesca.

F. T. Rea thinks that mass shooters would rather shoot than switch. (Click to read.)

I think he’s onto something there.

Gunnuttery is the Dirty Harry fantasy for men with smal–oh, never mind.

Share the politeness.

Police said the victim, Camile N. Prince, 24, was hit with a stray bullet after an altercation between two groups of people in the area of 16th Street and East 7th Avenue at 10:13 p.m., police said. Prince apparently was not the target of the shooting, police said.

Promote politeness.

A Manassas woman has pleaded guilty to violating federal firearms laws after buying 31 handguns over a two-week span at three Virginia gun shows.

Forty-four-year-old Kimberly Dinkins pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Alexandria to dealing firearms without a license. She faces up to five years in prison.

Court records show that Dinkins resold all of the guns for a profit.

Celebrate your children’s birthdays, politely:

A Connecticut woman was arrested at the children’s restaurant Chuck E. Cheese in Newington on Monday after she was accused of pulling her gun and chambering a round while threatening another mother.

Aside:

One of the nice things about having an empty nest is never ever having to go to Chuck E. Cheese again.

Gun Nut Paradise in the pink.