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Eighteen Months of Idiots and Deadly Power Working in Tandem
harles P. Pierce does an excellent job of documenting absurd gun violence across the country with his recurring post, “Today in Responsible Gun Ownership.”
His many examples hardly show the tip the iceberg that is gun violence
across the United States. In most instances, these trigger-happy
absurdities across our land best serve as bloody highlighters circling
the ineptitudes in our laws.What good is a restraining order if the stalker can still own an arsenal?
Why do some states still allow pistols in bars?
Blind people can own guns?
Should women be forbidden to wear low-cut blouses to firing ranges?
Thanks to Pierce’s research, here’s an 18-month look back at irresponsible gun lovers.
June 16, 2014
An ambiguously drunk man, “kind of bumping into some stuff,”
is detained after carrying a “large semi-automatic rifle” along the
streets of a Michigan neighborhood. Cops return the rifle the next day
after determining that he didn’t “brandish” the weapon but merely held
it openly, which is legal in Kalamazoo. Semantics: super important when
drunkards carry loaded weapons.
Georgia’s new law permits guns in any building that
doesn't have a security screening. Entertainers now contemplate
canceling performances at Macon Centreplex and Macon City Auditorium,
since the locations are now massive tragedies waiting to happen.
As a neighbor teaches his 7-year-old daughter how to
ride a bike, 61-year-old Gary Drake drunkenly shouts advice from his
Minnesota porch. When the father says, “I got it,” Drake pulls out a
Remington 870 shotgun, points it at the father and threatens to kill
him. Fortunately, his wife talks some sense into belligerent old
drunkard.
The Louisiana House passes a bill that allows
lawmakers to carry firearms into government buildings. Rep. Jeff
Thompson (R-Bossier City) ensures there are no psychiatric tests
required.
Seven people are shot at a sports bar shootout in
Ohio, a state where concealed weapons were recently permitted in bars.
This shooting happens after James Irvine, chairman of Buckeye Firearms
Association, boasts the success of the trigger-happy law prematurely.
A New Hampshire hunter is shot by his cousin after
accidentally resembling a turkey. The victim gobbles five non-lethal
BB’s across his body, including one in the spleen.
A blind man in Florida, who shot and killed a guy with
a .308 at a range of under 18 inches, is acquitted under the “stand
your ground law” and returned his guns. He remains blind and with guns.
A 62-year-old Virginian shoots and kills two brothers
with a .243 after they shake the door of a shed on their newly purchased
property. The shooter does not own the shed, has no belongings in the
shed, and gives no warning before killing.
Senator Rand Paul offers an amendment to allow legal
gun owners to enter post offices with firearms as they can any other
venue. If there’s one thing someone going postal needs, it’s guns.
In Tennessee, man takes off his pants, which hold a
loaded .25 caliber Berretta pistol in the front pocket (easy to forget
about). He puts them on the dresser and inadvertently shoots himself in
the chin.
Kentucky Representative Leslie Combs is unloading her
Ruger 380 semi-automatic in her office at the Capitol Annex when she
accidentally fires the weapon at nobody. Says the representative, “I’m a
gun owner. It happens.” Good point, Lessi. Good point.
A 72-year-old with Alzheimer’s is shot and killed for
approaching his former Georgia home. After shouting commands that were
not followed, the shooter assumes the victim is evil – a frail,
slow-moving bad guy worthy of death.
Four members of Mothers Demand Action are in the Blue
Mesa Grill when forty members of Open Carry Texas gather in the parking
lot to hold guns menacingly and intimidate the mothers.
A Missouri legislative assistant leaves his fully
loaded 9 milli sitting on the toilet paper after pinching a loaf.
Missouri has allowed concealed weapons among “legislators and their
staffers” since 2011. This is the first time that the new law, shall we
say, backfired.
In Indiana, a moron named Zachariah Grisham murders
the 3-year-old son of his girlfriend when playing a game where the
toddler says “bang-bang” and the moron points a real gun at him and
pulls the trigger in jest. This time, the gun is loaded. The moron is
soon arrested.
Two men go to a Milwaukee farmer’s market with AR-15
rifles over their shoulders and pistols on their hips. Police draw guns
on them and debate Wisconsin’s open carry laws. The provocateurs are
legally free to continue being dicks.
An Ohioan gun instructor accidentally shoots his student while teaching how to not accidentally shoot people.
A man with grenades, automatic rifles, and multiple
other firearms leaves his 3-year-old alone in the Miami apartment with
the weapons in reach, because he’s late for work and short on time.
Calamity ensues.
Buckeye Firearms Association, an Ohio-based pro-gun
lobby, raises $12,000 for George Zimmerman to “buy a gun, gear,
ammunition, training, security systems, personal protection, whatever he
[feels] appropriate to defend himself, defend his family, defend his
parents.” Yes, George Zimmerman.
At an Arkansas gun show, one ambitious bullet is
accidentally fired through the shooters’ hand before ricocheting to
graze another man. The show goes on.
During their annual river float in Missouri,
Paul Dart and his family and friends stop at a gravel bar to for a
bathroom break when the property owner murders him for trespassing.
A couple is driving their five children around
backwoods Virginia when they turn the car around in the wrong driveway.
As they’re reversing the Tahoe, 72-year-old Margie Rhea Ramey fires two
shots at the family. One bullet strikes the vehicle but no one is
injured.
After a sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee shows a gun to
his wife, a toddler picks the gun up from the bed and accidentally kills
the 48-year-old wife.
A Floridian man gets shot in the leg in an alley, a
bowling alley. The shooter is the victim is the dumbass bowling with a
loaded gun in his pocket.
A Colorado school employee and part-time security
guard gives a schoolboy a ride home. While putting his firearm into the
glove box, he shoots the boy in the leg.
A 5-year-old Texan gets out of the bathtub with his
7-year-old brother, retrieves a .22 rifle, and shoots his sibling in the
back. The child survives. Some parents stop bathing children together
once they start asking the wrong questions. Other parents need more
prompting.
In Michigan, a 23-year-old disassembles a loaded pistol when he accidentally busts a cap his teenaged buddy’s leg.
Despite a protective order requiring David Holten to
stay two blocks away from his ex-wife, he is legally allowed to keep two
pistols and a semiautomatic rifle in the state of Washington.
Consequently, Holten takes his wife hostage with his firearms.
Fortunately, this incident does not add to the five murders over the
last decade where gun-owners with restraining orders killed their
significant others.
A 64-year-old man in Utah fires blindly and futilely
down the road at burglars fleeing with his property. Police take his
.357 handgun and slap him on the wrist with a $700 fine.
A Vietnam vet in Georgia murders a 22-year-old who mistakenly pulls into the old bastard's driveway.
A casing flies into a woman’s blouse at a gun range in Florida. Startled, she shoots her husband.
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