# Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729 "2013-01-29T19:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 219
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4361 "2015-01-09T23:36:32Z")
Waiting for the ‘just another example that the gun owners need more training’ crowd. Although I’ve noted they don’t tend to come around much when it is a peace officer making the blunder… ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4362 "2015-01-10T07:33:17Z")
The Albuquerque police did a drug bust, but made the mistake of having more than one undercover police officer at the bust–so naturally the undercover officers started shooting at each other. One in critical condition. > **[APD officer shot by fellow undercover officer](https://www.koat.com/article/apd-officer-shot-by-fellow-undercover-officer/5061431)** > > An Albuquerque police officer shot a fellow officer during an undercover narcotics operation Friday afternoon, according to sources. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4363 "2015-01-10T14:13:38Z")
Not sure if a gun was involved, but noted gun rights enthusiast George Zimmerman was arrested last night and charged with aggravated assault. > **[Lawyer: George Zimmerman charged after allegedly throwing bottle of wine at...](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2015/01/10/lawyer-george-zimmerman-charged-after-allegedly-throwing-bottle-of-wine-at-girlfriend/)** > > After allegedly throwing a bottle of wine at his girlfriend Monday, George Zimmerman spent 14 hours in jail this weekend and now faces aggravated assault charges and must surrender all his firearms… ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4364 "2015-01-10T18:26:55Z")
He has also had to surrender his weapons. > **[Gun 'hero' George Zimmerman ordered to surrender arms after assault](https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0110/Gun-hero-George-Zimmerman-ordered-to-surrender-arms-after-assault)** > > George Zimmerman became a folk hero to some gun lovers after he shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Now, following another assault charge, Zimmerman has been ordered to surrender his firearms. ---
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4365 "2015-01-10T18:37:32Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Not sure if a gun was involved, but noted gun rights enthusiast George Zimmerman was arrested last night and charged with aggravated assault. > > [Lawyer: George Zimmerman charged after allegedly throwing bottle of wine at girlfriend – Orlando Sentinel](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman/os-george-zimmerman-arrested-assault-lake-mary-20150110-story.html) You left out “ **Hero of the Second Amendment**.” ---
**Author:** ![Ionizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4366 "2015-01-10T18:42:34Z")
[Here’s a great example](http://www.newser.com/story/201100/wife-shoots-husband-surprising-her-with-breakfast.html) of not knowing what your target is, etc. Summary - husband left house at ~10:00 am, and returned with a ‘surpise breakfast in be’ for her. He set off the alarm, so wife got weapon and shot him through a closed bedroom door. Apparently, she did not even call out or otherwise ID her target. Stooopid! She hit him in chest, but he only had ‘minor’ injuries, per news story linked. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4367 "2015-01-10T20:01:58Z")
[Shootout at _She’s A Pistol_ gun shop](http://www.kctv5.com/story/27804128/police-3-people-shot-in-shawnee#ixzz3OQwelUsS) in a Kansas City 'burb leaves one of the owners dead and three of the four would-be robbers wounded. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4368 "2015-01-10T22:45:14Z")
Indiana Couple Arrested for Filming Baby Playing With Handgun > [@](#): > > Two videos discovered on 19-year-old Michael Barnes’ cellphone showed a 1-year-old boy tinkering with the handgun as Barnes tells the child to say “pow,” according to a statement from the Evansville Police Department. > > Authorities didn’t say if the gun was loaded. In the video, the infant can also be seen placing the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth. > **[Indiana Couple Arrested for Filming Baby Playing With Handgun](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/indiana-couple-arrested-filming-baby-playing-handgun-n283721)** > > Two videos discovered on 19-year-old Michael Barnes' phone shows a 1-year-old boy tinkering with a handgun as Barnes tells the child to say "pow." ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4369 "2015-01-11T03:54:42Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > The Albuquerque police did a drug bust, but made the mistake of having more than one undercover police officer at the bust–so naturally the undercover officers started shooting at each other. One in critical condition. > [APD officer shot by fellow undercover officer](http://www.koat.com/news/officer-shot-near-tramway-central/30617298) Sorry, I just didn’t realize what a big-time drug operation this was: > [@](#): > > The undercover operation that resulted in an officer being shot and critically injured by a fellow officer was an attempt to bust two men for selling $60 worth of methamphetamine. [http://www.abqjournal.com/524310/news/officer-was-shot-during-undercover-sting-for-60-worth-of-meth.html](http://www.abqjournal.com/524310/news/officer-was-shot-during-undercover-sting-for-60-worth-of-meth.html) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4370 "2015-01-11T09:08:30Z")
Here we have a 4 year old boy finding a loaded gun and his 3 year old sister shot herself in the stomach with it (now hospitalized). What a stupid girl. At 3 years old she should know better!!! [http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/police-report-4-year-old-finds-gun-in-home-3-year-old-accidentally-shoots-herself-in-stomach](http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/police-report-4-year-old-finds-gun-in-home-3-year-old-accidentally-shoots-herself-in-stomach) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4371 "2015-01-11T09:38:33Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Sorry, I just didn’t realize what a big-time drug operation this was: > > > [@](#): > > > > The undercover operation that resulted in an officer being shot and critically injured by a fellow officer was an attempt to bust two men for selling $60 worth of methamphetamine. All _Heisenberg_s start as _TimeCubeGuy_s\*! \*Which really doesn’t work for the joke, but who’s heard of any actual theoretical physicists at the _$60 of meth_ level? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4372 "2015-01-11T15:33:32Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Indiana Couple Arrested for Filming Baby Playing With Handgun > > [Indiana Couple Arrested for Filming Baby Playing With Handgun](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/indiana-couple-arrested-filming-baby-playing-handgun-n283721) A perfect example of why I will continue to support gun control until there is effective idiot control. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4373 "2015-01-11T16:24:31Z")
> [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](#): > > A perfect example of why I will continue to support gun control until there is effective idiot control. And people dramatically underestimate just how many idiots there are out there. ---
**Author:** ![Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zeke\_N.Destroi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeke_N.Destroi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4374 "2015-01-11T16:51:20Z")
Not if you: 1. Pay attention to the news 2. Interact with the public regularly 3)Listen to [Carlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rh6qqsmxNs) (Obviously some NSFW language - it is Carlin after all 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4375 "2015-01-12T18:02:28Z")
Indiana coax their 1 year old daughter into [putting a gun in her mouth.](http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/01/indiana-couple-charged-with-child-neglect-after-goading-daughter-into-putting-gun-in-mouth-110496.html) Wow… :eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4376 "2015-01-12T18:07:49Z")
Apologies for the duplicate post… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4377 "2015-01-16T19:52:52Z")
Gun nuts staged a paintball-simulation of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The difference being, two of the “staff” were armed with their own paintball guns. Because the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun . . . Well. [Everybody died anyway.](http://aattp.org/texas-gun-nuts-reenact-charlie-hebdo-with-armed-civilian-but-everyone-dies-anyway-video/) > [@](#): > > Well, not _everybody_ exactly. Twice, an “armed civilian” shot one of the attackers, adding one to the total body count, but otherwise not affecting the outcome. In another simulation, one of the armed civilian survived…by just running away. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4378 "2015-01-16T20:06:23Z")
[Armed gun nuts confront a Texas state legislator in his office.](http://www.salon.com/2015/01/16/%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re_a_tyrant_to_the_constitution%e2%80%9d_how_gun_nuts_are_threatening_politicians/) > [@](#): > > On Tuesday a gun rights group led by Kory Watkins went to several lawmakers’ offices to push for an open carry law. Many members were not in their offices at the times of the visits, but Nevárez was there to speak with the group. He listened as Watkins and other activists passionately talked about the Second Amendment and their right to bear arms. > > “You won’t be here long, bro,” one person off-camera said to the Democrat from Eagle Pass. > > Nevárez kept his composure for a time, as he sat back on a leather couch in his office, but as the advocates continued to hammer him with pointed questions, the situation became tense. > > “You’re a tyrant to the Constitution,” a voice said to the representative. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4379 "2015-01-17T20:42:25Z")
NM Actually, this belongs in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/4380 "2015-01-20T03:28:03Z")
[9 month old dies after being shot in the head by 5 year old sibling.](http://fox4kc.com/2015/01/19/9-month-old-dies-after-being-shot-in-the-head-by-older-brother-in-nw-mo/) But hey, YAY GUN OWNERSHIP !!! See, this 5 year old handled his gun like a real 'Merrikkan. Took out his primary target without wasting ammo. God bless the little sniper. :dubious::dubious::dubious: Everybody wins here. He gets his first clean kill ( and a lifetime N.R.A. Membership ! ), no way his Mom will go to jail, because, yanno, she’s his MOM, and they still get to keep their guns !!! Win win. Fucking lunatics… fucking sick lunatics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=218) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=220)