# 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:** 444
**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 29, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8862 "2019-05-29T15:52:42Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How would the police know about the situation? By monitoring Stupid Gun news on the SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8863 "2019-05-29T16:54:58Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [The NRA opposes simply educating people about safe gun storage](https://news.yahoo.com/texas-approves-safe-gun-storage-campaign-over-nra-192429677.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca). Maybe one of our local hoplophiles can explain why. If they are safely stored, then when the person that they sold it to uses in a crime, they can’t use the excuse that it was stolen. ---
**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 30, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8864 "2019-05-30T14:17:10Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > [Video (and write-up)](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/mississippi-black-couple-picnic-video-gun.html)shows campground manager asking black couple leave pinic area, backed by her gun. > > Bonus that the guy is National Guard and just returned from overseas. Glad to see the woman is being careful with her handgun. Nothing secures a firearm better than a pocket on some stretchy shorts. What a dumbfuck. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8865 "2019-06-01T12:04:46Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > How is this not in the “guns make me orgasm” thread? [Certainly this ought to be.](https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/valrico-man-charged-with-manslaughter-following-handgun-foreplay/2042275083) > [@](#): > > A Valrico man has been charged with manslaughter after deputies say foreplay with handgun led to the death of his partner. > > Deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office say the Andrew Shinault, 23, shot a woman, who is also in her 20s, while engaging in an act of foreplay involving his registered handgun. > > Deputies tell News Channel 8 the couple knew the gun was loaded and were using the gun for “sexual excitement.” ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8866 "2019-06-01T12:53:56Z")
Oh yeah, btw, there were 12 people killed in Virginia Beach yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8867 "2019-06-01T14:29:07Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Oh yeah, btw, there were 12 people killed in Virginia Beach yesterday. A price the gun cultists are quite willing to pay for the “right” to indulge in their masturbatory Dirty Harry fantasies. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8868 "2019-06-01T17:11:06Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Oh yeah, btw, there were 12 people killed in Virginia Beach yesterday. That’s really odd. That’s the first I’ve heard of the shooting, but for the last couple of days, youtube has been showing me commercials for Virginia Beach. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8869 "2019-06-01T21:13:02Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Oh yeah, btw, there were 12 people killed in Virginia Beach yesterday. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > That’s really odd. That’s the first I’ve heard of the shooting, but for the last couple of days, youtube has been showing me commercials for Virginia Beach. Granted, I don’t watch or listen to news feeds 24/7, but the first I heard of this was via a friend’s Facebook post. This morning when I turned on the TV, MSNBC and CNN were covering this story extensively. Fox News was talking about how the tariffs would eventually hurt both China and Mexico. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8870 "2019-06-02T04:27:59Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Oh yeah, btw, there were 12 people killed in Virginia Beach yesterday. You guys aren’t giving nearly enough thoughts and prayers! Up your game, god damn it!! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8871 "2019-06-02T12:14:56Z")
They’re having \*real \*trouble dismissing this guy as something other than a responsible, law-abiding citizen, a professional adult whose guns were legally purchased, because people still got killed who wouldn’t have been otherwise. There’s no way to define a screen that would have excluded him, since he met every definition of Good Guy With A Gun right up until he wasn’t anymore. But, rather than tell us they’re rethinking their views, they’re just shutting up, the fucking irresponsible cowards. Oh well, #(PlaceName)Strong, thoughts and prayers, now is not the time either, if only there was something that could be done … Until next time. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8872 "2019-06-02T16:40:54Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > They’re having \*real \*trouble dismissing this guy as something other than a responsible, law-abiding citizen, a professional adult whose guns were legally purchased, because people still got killed who wouldn’t have been otherwise. There’s no way to define a screen that would have excluded him, since he met every definition of Good Guy With A Gun right up until he wasn’t anymore. But, rather than tell us they’re rethinking their views, they’re just shutting up, the fucking irresponsible cowards. > > Oh well, #(PlaceName)Strong, thoughts and prayers, now is not the time either, if only there was something that could be done … Until next time. If they did anything that would have prevented this tragedy, then it would mean that they wouldn’t get as many toys to play with. Priorities man, where are your priorities? Would you deny a upstanding white guy the pleasure of being able to use any gun, any time, for any reason, just to prevent the deaths of innocent people? You monster. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8873 "2019-06-02T16:44:29Z")
This guy was actually black. You can tell because the cops killed him. Maybe that’s their opening this time. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8874 "2019-06-02T23:43:02Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > They’re having \*real \*trouble dismissing this guy as something other than a responsible, law-abiding citizen, a professional adult whose guns were legally purchased, This must be fake news. Criminals don’t use legally purchased guns. Everybody knows that. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8875 "2019-06-03T01:02:25Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > This must be fake news. Criminals don’t use legally purchased guns. Everybody knows that. No person is a criminal until they are. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8876 "2019-06-03T16:45:56Z")
But … but … _we’re_ the Good Guys and _they’re_ the Bad Guys! They \*need \*killin’! That’s how the moral reasoning seems to work for them. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8877 "2019-06-03T17:06:44Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > You guys aren’t giving nearly enough thoughts and prayers! Up your game, god damn it!! I was watching The Memorial golf tournament yesterday, and when W apologist announcer Jim Nantz started his insipid comments re: Va Beach shooting, I automatically recited **Thoughts & Prayers**. He _immediately_ crossed me up with **Prayers & Thoughts**. Very creative, that one. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8878 "2019-06-12T22:39:38Z")
[NC Elementary Teacher Accidentally Killed By Gun In Purse](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nc-elementary-teacher-accidentally-killed-by-gun-in-purse/ar-AACMHB5) > [@](#): > > A Rowan County elementary school teacher was killed while eating at Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Kannapolis Saturday after a handgun inside her purse fired a shot into her abdomen, according to reports. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8879 "2019-06-12T23:40:32Z")
The gun just fired on its own? I guess guns DO kill people! ---
**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:** [June 13, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8880 "2019-06-13T00:04:55Z")
Impossible! Guns can’t just go off!! ---
**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:** [June 13, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8881 "2019-06-13T00:20:30Z")
Maybe new guns have AI? Seconds count when you are trying to stop a home invasion. Who has time to grab the gun and fire it? Guns that just fire on their own will save thousands of lives a year! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=443) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=445)