# 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:** 441
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8802 "2019-05-06T18:32:38Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > But you have to mop up the pool of blood the child is lying in first. 'Merica! ---
**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:** [May 8, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8803 "2019-05-08T04:06:32Z")
Another school shooting today, this time in a suburb near Denver. One dead, seven wounded. Another line of kids evacuating their school with their hands over their heads so the cops know they’re not armed. Ho hum. Another day in the greatest country on earth. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8804 "2019-05-08T05:18:48Z")
Thoughts and Prayers. Let’s hope the haters can observe a few weeks of respectful silence before they start blaming this tragedy on guns. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8805 "2019-05-08T13:41:44Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Thoughts and Prayers. Let’s hope the haters can observe a few weeks of respectful silence before they start blaming this tragedy on guns. I think thoughts and prayers are really starting to work. Only one dead? That’s a miracle! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8806 "2019-05-08T14:44:45Z")
What a shit hole country. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8807 "2019-05-08T16:16:18Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Thoughts and Prayers. Let’s hope the haters can observe a few weeks of respectful silence before they start blaming this tragedy on guns. [Thoughts and Prayers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlTkSPyhT2k) ---
**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:** [May 8, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8808 "2019-05-08T17:34:11Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > [Thoughts and Prayers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlTkSPyhT2k) [my cats](https://i.redd.it/59a4wetw80lx.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8809 "2019-05-08T23:24:06Z")
Man, I wish I had a hobby that people thought was worth more than other people’s lives. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8810 "2019-05-09T13:04:02Z")
Odd how the Safe Space thread \*still \*has nothing about how this brave young man, simply exercising his Constitutional Carry rights in a public space, was tragically killed defending his gun from a Spanish-surnamed gun grabber. Yet another tragic martyr for the Second Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8811 "2019-05-09T13:16:47Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Thoughts and Prayers. Let’s hope the haters can observe a few weeks of respectful silence before they start blaming this tragedy on guns. Guns are your concern? Are we supposed to be sending our thoughts & prayers to the guns now? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8812 "2019-05-09T15:21:07Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > Guns are your concern? Are we supposed to be sending our thoughts & prayers to the guns now? I think his tongue was in his cheek in that post. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8813 "2019-05-09T15:36:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think his tongue was in his cheek in that post. And I continue to fail to grasp sarcasm. This is why I’m not invited to parties. ---
**Author:** ![UnwittingAmericans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d9b06d/32.png) [@UnwittingAmericans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwittingAmericans)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8814 "2019-05-09T15:41:28Z")
Sooner or later there will be a thread about what’s OK to grasp at parties. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8815 "2019-05-09T15:42:49Z")
My Mother liked to say I’d inherited my Father’s Scottish sense of humor. My mistake was thinking this was intended as a compliment. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8816 "2019-05-09T15:43:45Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > And I continue to fail to **grasp sarcasm**. This is why I’m not invited to parties. nah…too easy. 😃 ---
**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:** [May 9, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8817 "2019-05-09T15:53:07Z")
We are only criticizing the _stupid_ guns in this thread. The other guns, we have sympathy for them. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8818 "2019-05-11T07:04:15Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You can have my gun when you pry it from my 4 year-old daughter’s cold dead hands! Deal! ---
**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:** [May 12, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8819 "2019-05-12T04:30:41Z")
Husband shot by wife’s handgun in the middle of Publix market when her purse fell off the counter. Both have concealed carry permits. > **[Watch: He was shot while standing in line at Publix. But how? Here's how...](https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/watch-he-was-shot-while-standing-in-line-at-publix-but-how-heres-how-pasco-deputies-figured-it-out-20190510/?template=amp&__twitter_impression=true)** > > Click here to read this story in Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8820 "2019-05-12T06:05:13Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > And I continue to fail to grasp sarcasm. This is why I’m not invited to parties. It’s OK. Catching when someone is sarcastic is a skill not everyone has, and sometimes sarcasm doesn’t come across as easily on the Internet. Oh, wait, this is the Pit. I should say something rude. Nuts! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8821 "2019-05-13T15:53:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Husband shot by wife’s handgun in the middle of Publix market when her purse fell off the counter. Both have concealed carry permits. > > [Watch: He was shot while standing in line at Publix. But how? Here's how Pasco deputies figured it out.](https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/watch-he-was-shot-while-standing-in-line-at-publix-but-how-heres-how-pasco-deputies-figured-it-out-20190510/?template=amp&__twitter_impression=true) Yet another gun that fires if you drop it: Cobra Firearms Derringer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=440) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=442)