Gunnuttery category archive

Always a good policy.

I can’t help wondering whether the secret sauce in gunnuttery is the wish to kill someone, anyone, just to see what it feels like.

Be polite in the presence of prosciutto:

The man was registered to carry a compact personal weapon that he had in his jacket pocket. When he hung his coat over the back of a chair, the gun fell to the floor and fired into a wall, said Cpl. Darin Hickey, public information officer for the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

His license needs to be revoked because of stupid.

Run-away politeness:

Investigators say the accounts of several witnesses inside the apartment at the time suggest another male was handling a handgun when it accidentally discharged. They say the unknown male took the gun and left the scene before officers arrived.

And another gun that “discharges” itself.

Be polite in the playpen.

The Kansas City Star reports emergency responders were called to an Elmo home at 8:58 a.m. on Monday after a 5-year-old found a loaded .22 caliber handgun and apparently was handling it when it fired.

White says the bullet struck the 9-month-old, who was in a playpen.

Gun nut paradise approacheth apace.

Rear your children politely (emphasis added).

The Dallas Morning News reported that 53-year-old Steven Johnson had taken out his gun at his home in Colleyville to show it to visitors.

According to Colleyville city spokesperson Mona Gandy, the gun discharged and Johnson’s 10-year-old daughter was struck by a bullet that went through a wall of the home.

The wording of the story indicates that this was yet another gun that fired itself. Nevertheless, for some fool reason, the person who was holding it at the time has been arrested. . . .

Words and how they are used matter, folks.

Demonstrate politeness to your public officials.

The Secret Service says multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night.

The vice president and his wife were not at home at the time.

The Secret Service says the shots were fired at around 8:25 p.m. on a public road outside the secure perimeter near the home in Greenville, Delaware.

At this point, it remains unclear whether this was sedition, stupid, or a confluence of the two.

A happy family polites together.

Lincoln said the girl’s father told detectives the girl was helping him and his 6-year-old daughter clean the family’s home on County Road 3451 in Flora Vista on Friday afternoon. The 6-year-old sister picked up a rifle in the room and pulled the trigger, Lincoln said, striking the 8-year-old girl once in the neck.

Play cowboys, politely.

Deputies responded to a report of an accidental shooting at a home on Magnolia Road around 11 p.m. Thursday. Myles said Nelson and Tyler lived at the house along with Nelson’s parents.

“Upon arrival, one of the witnesses stated that they were playing a game of ‘Quick Draw’ and fake shooting each other,” she said.

Follow the money (emphasis added).

The NRA is popularly portrayed, including in the (recent PBS “Frontline”–ed.) broadcast, as an organization of 4 million members, representing an estimated 80 million American gun owners, out of a U.S. population of 316 million. NRA members are generally presented as a relatively benign collection of hunters, gun collectors, a few people obsessed with gun possession and a few more who consider it necessary to be armed against a potentially dangerous U.S. government or to resist the United Nations — the paranoid “black helicopter” crowd. It is also assumed that the NRA’s estimated $250-million-a-year budget, including a generous amount for Washington lobbying, is financed by its dues and programs.

This is only half true. At least half of the NRA’s budget comes from some 16 U.S.-based weapons manufacturers or marketers, including the ubiquitous, profitable Walmart.

Read the rest.

More polite pals.

A 33-year-old father is dead after being shot by a man who Fraser police describe as a friend.

(snip)

Police said the victim first got the gun from a kitchen drawer and aimed it at Magdowski and fired two rounds. The homeowner yelled at the victim that the gun was loaded. Police say Magdowksi grabbed the gun from the victim and fired one shot at him, striking him.

Pray Prey politely.

Police arrested two men on Monday in connection with a shooting at the Old Paramus Reformed Church on East Glen Avenue.

Joseph Galli, 21, of Somerville and Alex Norrell, 22, of Ridgewood are accused by authorities of being involved in an attack on the 200-year-old church late last month, where more than 30 rounds of ammunition were fired into the building — damaging stained-glass windows and some of the roof’s tiling, authorities said in a news release Tuesday.

Pal around politely.

A 15-year-old was shot and killed Sunday by his 15-year-old friend in what Guilford Sheriff’s investigators said they believe was an accidental shooting.

According to the report, they didn’t know the gun was loaded. The story left out the bit about being too stupid to check.

Stairway to politeness:

The captain (in the Fire Dept.–ed.), whose name was not released, was in a stairwell of the East Cambridge fire station at 175 Cambridge St. on an administrative task Tuesday when he was removing a personal firearm and holster from his jacket pocket in an attempt to attach it to his belt, according to Assistant Chief Gerard E. Mahoney. The gun, which he was licensed to carry, accidentally fired, hitting the captain in his hip area, Mahoney said.

According to the report, he wasn’t supposed to be packing at work.

A polite look . . .

A 20-year-old man was accidentally killed on Saturday afternoon when he and an acquaintance were looking at a gun in a Baton Rouge home’s storage room, according to police.

The two men were in a home in the 4900 block of Jefferson Avenue when the gun went off around 12:30 p.m., said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge Police spokesman. A single bullet struck the 20-year-old in the chest, and he died at the scene, according to McKneely.

. . . and another gun that went off on its ownsome.

Perhaps we have reached the gunularity.

Be polite to your partner.

Fayetteville Police say Zia Segule, 28, left for work. His wife, 27-year-old Tiffany Segule, set the home alarm system. Zia Segule returned to the home unannounced to surprise his wife with breakfast. The alarm sounded and Tiffany Segule, who had gotten back in the bed, shot her husband in the chest through their closed bedroom door.

If only the husband had been packing, he could have returned fire to protect himself.

Via TPM.

Afterthought:

The NRA and its gun nut followers thrive in a world of fear.

“Shoot first and ask questions later” is a policy not embraced by persons in possession of their faculties; it is, nevertheless, the NRA way.

These people are nuts, and cowardly nuts at that. They would slay an unknown before they face it.

Be polite to your progeny.

Officer Doug Welborn said the father was carrying a .40-caliber pistol in a holster on his belt when he accompanied his daughter to her appointment at Adient Physical Therapy in the Medical Dental Arts building on Lathrop Street. At some point during the appointment he decided to remove his jacket and didn’t want the gun to be seen by other patients in the office. The man removed the gun from the holster and put it in his jacket pocket, at which point the trigger caught on the garment and a shot was fired.

Via Southern Beale.

Guns don’t kill people; dogs with guns kill people—or so it would seem from the recent rash of gun owners who have been accidentally shot by their dogs.

Follow the link for the rogues’ gallery.

Via Juanita Jean.

Teach the children, teach them politeness.

Kansas City police are investigating the apparent accidental shooting of a 3-year-old Kansas City girl Wednesday afternoon.

(snip)

Initial indications were that the girl either shot herself or was shot by a 4-year-old sibling, according to police.

Practice makes polite.

Deputies say Thomas Nastasiak of Saint Petersburg and John Bell of Clearwater were target practicing on Bell’s property in Old Town when a stray bullet struck a neighbor in his chest.

Deputies say the 62-year-old man whose name has not been released, was raking his yard when he was shot.

“Target practicing.”

Yeah.

Right.

Politeness is a “sound” decision.

According to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the victim was shot while walking through a cutover after being mistaken for game. The shooter, a 51-year-old Richmond man, was a guest of the hunting club and was walking alongside the cutover with two members when he heard the sound of breaking limbs adjacent to his location. He then positioned himself in front of the sound, raised his shotgun and fired once after seeing movement. His shot struck the victim in his left and right leg from a distance of roughly 49 feet.

When my brother lived in Vermont 30 years ago, his boss stopped hunting after he heard some out of town hunters talking in a bar. One said, “Did you bag anything?”

The other replied, “No, but I got off some sound shots.”

When the boss realized that “sound shot” meant shooting in the direction of a noise without knowing what made the noise, he decided that hunting was no longer worth the risk.