Gunnuttery category archive

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.

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.

Read more »

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.