Gunnuttery category archive

Brendan explains how it works.

Possibly polite practice rounds?

The 2-year-old was sitting in his mother’s lap when someone in a passing green Honda stuck a handgun outside the window and fired as many as 10 or 11 rounds, Menlo Park police Sgt. Kevin Paugh said.

The Honda headed east toward the Dumbarton Bridge, police said. The whereabouts of the car, which reportedly had two occupants, was unknown late Saturday.

Politeness on the hoof.

Police said the shooting occurred around 7:30 p.m. in the 600 block of Elma Avenue. The woman told police she was driving her 1999 Nissan Altima southbound on Elma Avenue when she saw two men walking in the street in front of her.

“She flashed her lights to warn the males that she was behind them,” the police report said. “The suspects walked off to the side of the road so the victim could pass. After the victim drove past the males, one of the males fired several shots at the victim’s vehicle.”

Via PoliticalProf.

Dick Polman hands out the “Well-Regulated Militia Awards.” A sample:

Second runner-up: At a home in Richmond, Virginia 10 days ago, somebody left a loaded gun on the kitchen table. A four-year-old picked it up and shot his great-uncle in the head. Bye bye, great-uncle. The local district attorney said the tyke thought the gun was a toy. A neighbor reportedly said, “Nobody knew that was going to happen.” Well, gee. if a Well-Regulated Militia member leaves a loaded gun in plain view of a curious kid, that does tend to heighten the odds of someone getting plugged in the head. Anyway, authorities said the four-year-old is legally in the clear.

In related news, Maine man gets time for stealing courtesy:

A New Sharon man was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to 27 months in federal prison for possessing 19 stolen firearms, including six semi-automatic rifles, five semi-automatic pistols and numerous shotguns.

Frankly, I’m mildly surprised the gunnuttery was not analyzed by Krafft-Ebing.

Hofstadter was right.

Image via Bartcop.

Guns fuel the drive for courtesy.

Overland Park (Kansas–ed.) police are searching for a man who fired several shots at another driver’s car Monday morning near 79th Street and Metcalf Avenue.

The road-rage incident began about 7:30 a.m. near 91st Street and Metcalf Avenue, police Capt. Todd Chappell said.

It’s not even slowing down, is it?

Three people were injured after gunfire erupted at Lone Star College North Harris campus on Tuesday afternoon.

The shooting happened about 12:20 p.m. at the campus at 2700 W. W. Thorne, near Aldine Westfield, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

At least two of the victims were wounded in the shooting and rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital. One of them was critically wounded. Details about the other person’s wound and condition were not released.

Via the Daily Banter.

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Zandar zones in on the WATB factor in gunnuttery:

It’s funny how in the blink of an eye, law-and-order minded wingers have gone from screaming about the need for mandatory sentencing, three strikes laws, and giving prosecutors the power to actually deal with those who break the law, to, now that firearm legislation is the question of the day, yelling that America’s various district attorneys and prosecutors are power-hungry pocket dictators.

You can’t make this stuff up:

As gun rights activists celebrated the turnout at gun shows for national Gun Appreciation Day Saturday, police responded to at least thee accidental shootings that left five people injured at shows across the country.

They can’t even be trusted amongst their own kind.

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Addendum:

Noz explains what it means.

From a study by the Combatting Terrorism Center of the United States Military Academy:

Conservatives are claiming that the report is biased, apparently because it’s based on facts and numbers and stuff that actually happened.

In the San Jose Mercury-News, Jason Dempsey asks,

Does the NRA Want to Turn America Into Afghanistan?

Follow the link to find out why he asks.

Reg Henry takes on gun nuts’ pretzel logic. A snippet:

Consider the irony: Every self-professed patriot becomes teary-eyed about the flag and those whose job it is to fight to protect it — and rightly so. By and large, members of the Armed Forces today are widely admired and respected.

But if guns were used in an effort to overthrow a tyrannical government, guess who the enemy would be? Why, those same men and women of the Armed Forces marching under that same grand old flag. The president, if a reminder is needed, is their commander in chief.

(snip)

. . . the word “tyrant” has been devalued and dumbed down to the point of meaninglessness. What we have is a government that some people don’t like . . . .

Elsewhere, PoliticalProf considers the properties of gunnuttery.

Tarrrrgetttt practice! courteously, of course.

Morans.

You can’t make this stuff up.

An armed guard at a Lapeer, Mich., charter school — hired in the wake of the Newtown massacre — made a “breach of security” this week when he left his gun unattended in the bathroom “for a few moments,” Chatfield School Director Matt Young told the Flint Journal. The gun was unloaded.

Via Delaware Liberal.

Thom covers the politics of the origins of the Second Amendment.

It was all about fear of slave revolts.

Watch a follow-up discussion here. (It gets lively at about the eight minute mark.)

See additional comment at Bob Cesca’s place.

Chattel slavery is America’s original sin. It stains us still.

Dick Polman reviews the gun nuts’ war against facts. A nugget:

Why, perchance, was the gun lobby so fearful of basic data and scientific inquiry back in the early ’90s? Duh.

In 1992 and 1993, a team of respected gun research experts – financed and sponsored by the CDC – concluded that keeping guns in the home actually increased the risk of homicide and suicide in the home. The studies were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (homicide study, here). The gun lobby freaked out. The studies flatly contradicted the lobby’s contention that guns in homes make people safer.

The gun manufacturers freaked out, too. If word got around that gun-owning households were less safe – and, worse yet, if future researchers came to that same conclusion – gun manufacturers might sell fewer guns. And since the abiding goal is to increase revenue and maximize profits, the solution back then was obvious. Future gun violence research had to be squelched.

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