Gunnuttery category archive

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.

Sign the petition.

I’m sort of a First Amendment absolutist, but the First Amendment starts out with “Congress shall make no law . . . .”

The First Amendment applies to the State.

There is no legitimate reason for media to romanticize nutcases. “Nutcases sell commercials” is not a legitimate reason.

The hostage situation in Midland City, Ala. is over.

At a press conference Monday evening, authorities offered the first few details about the end of the small-town saga, which had stretched nearly a week.

Steve Richardson, a special agent with the FBI in Alabama, confirmed to reporters that the kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, was dead, and that the small boy Dykes had held in an underground bunker since last Tuesday was at least physically unharmed, and being treated at a local hospital.

Teach your children, politely.

A Florida man armed with an weapon that had once been banned under federal law forced his wife to watch as he strangled one of his sons and then shot a second before turning a gun on himself.

Via Raw Story

It’s all just a smokescreen of whatever will cloud the issue today.