# 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:** 446
**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 25, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8902 "2019-06-25T18:02:01Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > ISTM it comes from the Good Guy / Bad Guy filter that distorts their view of the world and the people in it - if the Bad Guy gets shot, that’s Positive Gun News. What’s strange is that if TWO bad guys get shot, it’s NOT Positive Gun News for some reason. ---
**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 26, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8903 "2019-06-26T00:34:10Z")
Ms. Courtney Irby was [jailed for burglary](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48747994), for entering her estranged husband’s apartment, collecting his arsenal and delivering the weapons to the Lakeland police department. _On 14 June, following a divorce court meeting, Mr Irby was arrested for domestic aggravated battery after he allegedly ran his wife’s vehicle off the road and hit her car with his own … Mrs Irby told officers she feared for her life during the incident and had requested restraining orders_ Florida does not restrict domestic abusers (of which Mr. Irby has been accused) or those with related restraining orders from possessing firearms. But federal law does. It remains an open question as to what should be allowed in a case like this. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8904 "2019-06-26T02:05:02Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [A tragedy, to be sure](https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2019/06/13/officials-5-year-old-shoots-toddler-in-head-uncle-charged), but part of the price we all must pay for being able to kill the Bad Guys: If only the 2-year-old could have defended himself … What every two year old needs for protection against five year olds is an [Iver Johnson Safety Revolver](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Iver_Johnson_revolvers.jpg). ---
**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 26, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8905 "2019-06-26T22:24:17Z")
[12-year-old accidentally shoots and kills his twin, police say; mother in custody](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/12-year-old-accidentally-shoots-and-kills-his-twin-police-say-mother-in-custody/ar-AADteaQ) > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > A San Bernardino woman has been arrested after one of her sons accidentally shot and killed his 12-year-old twin brother with a gun found in their home, authorities said. > > > > The brothers were playing with the weapon in the master bedroom of their house on East Central Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Monday when it discharged, a San Bernardino police representative told KCBS-TV. It was unclear whether the firearm already had bullets in it or if the boys loaded it. ---
**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 27, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8906 "2019-06-27T00:59:50Z")
At least the mother was arrested. ---
**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 27, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8907 "2019-06-27T04:26:45Z")
On a [slightly less stupid](https://news.yahoo.com/nra-cancels-nratv-and-the-internet-sends-thoughts-and-prayers-142530140.html) note, nratv is ceasing production of live programming and distancing itself from Dana Loesch. La Pierre says that it has gone off-message. Existing material will continue to be presented, but probably not the extreme RW invective. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8908 "2019-07-08T21:36:44Z")
Woman brandishes gun in road rage incident, accidentally shoots her husband in the head: > [@](#): > > “During the incident, an altercation occurred in which, the offender, Erica Cole, attempted to shoot a second party but shot her husband, Nicholas Cole, striking him in the head,” Cullman County Deputy Brad Williams said in a statement. [https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/alabama-road-rage-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/alabama-road-rage-trnd/index.html) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8909 "2019-07-10T14:30:28Z")
[Line too slow at the DMV? Shoot up the place!](https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article232449527.html) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8910 "2019-07-10T14:42:06Z")
Good Guy with a Gun [Police: Off-duty jailer showed handgun during brawl at Goodguys car show](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-off-duty-jailer-showed-handgun-during-brawl-at-goodguys-car-show/ar-AAE5t4j) > [@](#): > > The man was identified by police Tuesday as Boone County Sheriff’s Department jailer John McCormick. He has not been charged but his gun was confiscated. Firearms are banned inside the fairgrounds. > > McCormick, 45, of Madrid, allegedly brandished the gun while fighting with 69-year-old James Welshons of Des Moines. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8911 "2019-07-10T14:46:53Z")
> [@](#): > > State Fair Police Commander Doug Phillips said he has conflicting reports about who threw the first punch but that McCormick reported fearing for his life. He was gonna shoot the guy; that’s what cops say to justify a shooting. Prolly started the fight, knowing that if he was losing, he could pull out his gun to pull out a win. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8912 "2019-07-10T15:08:19Z")
I’m guessing James Welshons is white, because he didn’t get shot. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8913 "2019-07-10T20:04:42Z")
[Florida Man Strikes Again!](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-man-hunting-iguanas-misses-and-shoots-nearby-pool-guy-instead/ar-AAE7jtO) > [@](#): > > A Florida woman has warned parents to protect their children after an iguana hunter shot her pool maintenance technician. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8914 "2019-07-10T22:23:01Z")
NRA board member and thought leader Ted Nugent shares his view of which states no longer “qualify as American”. > [@](#): > > I was born in Detroit. You know Laura Michigan was the arsenal of democracy. It was the epicenter of work ethic and pride of productivity when I was born in '48. But unfortunately it’s turned into a suburb of San Francisco now politically and it just breaks my heart. California, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts – politically those states don’t even qualify as America anymore. It’s just heartbreaking. > **[NRA board member Ted Nugent tells Laura Ingraham that many states don't...](https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/nra-board-member-ted-nugent-tells-laura-ingraham-many-states-dont-qualify-america)** > > From the July 10 edition of Podcast One's The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast:  ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8915 "2019-07-10T22:35:43Z")
“And heck, if those places aren’t America anymore, doesn’t it just follow naturally that the people there are no longer Americans? And hey, if they aren’t Americans, they’re barely even human, right? Where’s my guns?!” ---
**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:** [July 11, 2019, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8916 "2019-07-11T02:37:22Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > NRA board member and thought leader Ted Nugent shares his view of which states no longer “qualify as American”. Those states represent about two thirds of the population of the US, right? ---
**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:** [July 11, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8917 "2019-07-11T02:40:17Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Those states represent about two thirds of the population of the US, right? The Fake US, sure. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8918 "2019-07-11T05:42:10Z")
The U.S.S.A. Get it right ya bleedin commie. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8919 "2019-07-12T11:57:51Z")
[They aren’t even pretending anymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21743298&postcount=1560) in the Safe Space thread: > [@Gray Ghost](#): > > Robber is taken to hospital, where he dies the next day. Nobody but the robber is physically hurt, but the clerk, per the link, was “very distraught and very upset.” > > The robber wasn’t dead at the scene, but you can’t have everything. Yes, an actual purported human being wrote that. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8920 "2019-07-12T12:07:11Z")
That’s because if you steal something, you deserve the death penalty. Especially if that penalty can be executed right at the scene of the crime. Saves time and money! ---
**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:** [July 12, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/8921 "2019-07-12T13:55:34Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > That’s because if you steal something, you deserve the death penalty. Especially if that penalty can be executed right at the scene of the crime. Saves time and money! You know how a lot of the fringe Christian right (not sure it’s really fringe any longer) are pushing the “Muslims are going to impose Sharia law and start chopping off hands if you steal something” meme? Christ isn’t all soft and cuddly like Allah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=445) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=447)