# 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:** 475
**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 19, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9486 "2021-05-19T04:23:39Z")
Ban nightstands? ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9487 "2021-05-20T11:35:21Z")
Gotta arm the nightstands. ---
**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 20, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9488 "2021-05-20T13:49:23Z")
Family hunts down vandals driving a black Dodge Charger, only it was a gray Dodge Challenger, not a black Dodge Charger. Innocent neighbor shot to death. Whole family charged with murder. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/20/houston-mistaken-identity-argueta-murder/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/20/houston-mistaken-identity-argueta-murder/) ---
**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 20, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9489 "2021-05-20T14:17:16Z")
It’s not even just a case of mistaken identity. Even if they had the right person, it’s still murder. You are not allowed to kill people for vandalism. The fact that the person that they murdered was completely uninvolved just makes the gun owners that much stupider, but no less evil. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9490 "2021-05-20T16:56:16Z")
The family that slays together…rot in jail together. Or apart. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9491 "2021-05-20T21:24:45Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > It’s not even just a case of mistaken identity. Even if they had the right person, it’s still murder. Yeah! This quote from that Wash Post article > "Seems like a tragic case of mistaken identify,” made me wince not only for that, but also because it was said by > [Harris County Sheriff Ed] Gonzalez, who was nominated by President Biden last month to serve as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He needs to get his priorities straightened ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9492 "2021-05-20T22:43:01Z")
… now that’s what I call both “family planning” and “effective birth control”. ---
**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 23, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9493 "2021-05-23T01:10:47Z")
Three-year-old shoots two-year-old with gun he found hidden in a couch. > Wilson told the sheriff’s office that he hid the gun, a Hi-Point CF-380, in the couch to keep it away from the children. [http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn\_topstories/~3/xXsgdr\_brw8/index.html](http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/xXsgdr_brw8/index.html) ---
**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 23, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9494 "2021-05-23T06:42:27Z")
He put it in the couch, how much more secure do you expect it to be? ---
**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 30, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9495 "2021-05-30T02:07:31Z")
A 9-year-old girl has died after being shot while jumping on a trampoline [http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn\_topstories/~3/G43df3unti4/index.html](http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/G43df3unti4/index.html) T-minus how many minutes until a post in the bizarro gun news thread… ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9496 "2021-05-30T15:24:52Z")
Lol it really IS uncanny. Last post here on the 22nd; last post there on the 22nd. Post here 13 hours ago; post there 4 hours ago ---
**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 30, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9497 "2021-05-30T16:31:41Z")
[From earlier this month in Louisiana](https://www.houmatoday.com/story/news/2021/05/07/houma-man-accused-holding-woman-and-child-gunpoint/4990895001/), a woman was assaulted, and her child threatened, in their own home, by a man with a gun. > [@](#): > > She told deputies that Charles came into her home while she was sleeping and began hitting her with the gun. The woman sent a text message to a family member for help. When the family member called the woman’s cell phone, Charles pointed the gun at her 8-year-old son’s head and threatened to kill him if she did not say “everything was fine,” the Sheriff’s Office said. > > Charles then forced the victim and child into her car at gunpoint and drove them to a nearby store parking lot to watch if police responded, authorities said. When the suspect determined police were not called, he drove back to the home and held the woman and child against their will. [In St Louis, earlier this month](https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/st-louis-county-stolen-car-suspects-kidnapping/63-3da157ab-c724-40e5-8fda-5142e888625b), a woman and her child are kidnapped at gunpoint while in their car. > [@](#): > > The man walked up to a woman who was sitting in her car in the Aldi parking lot. A 5-year-old child also was inside the car at the time. The woman told police he pulled out a gun, got in her car and demanded that she give him a ride out of the area. As a bit of a change up, kids kidnapping adults at gunpoint, [as here in St Louis a couple weeks ago.](https://www.newsweek.com/15-year-old-accused-robbery-rape-woman-was-wearing-ankle-monitor-1593083) > [@](#): > > Dillon allegedly entered the woman’s St. Louis County home and held her at gunpoint as she was entering at 11 p.m. in late September, according to the charges. He then abducted her, forcing her to drive her vehicle to a second location where he then raped her at gunpoint. > > The woman, who is in her 30s, and Dillon had no known connection to one another. After Dillon allegedly raped her, he forced her to withdraw $500 from her bank and ordered her to give it to him. > > He then forced her to drive to another location, where he sexually assaulted her at gunpoint a second time. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9498 "2021-05-30T18:45:59Z")
I don’t get; where’s the stupid in those stories? ---
**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 30, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9499 "2021-05-30T19:18:16Z")
That these people had such easy access to guns in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9500 "2021-05-30T19:28:06Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Lol it really IS uncanny. Last post here on the 22nd; last post there on the 22nd. Post here 13 hours ago; post there 4 hours ago I noticed it, too, since it was pointed out. It _has_ to be intentional. ---
**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 31, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9501 "2021-05-31T20:09:18Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > T-minus how many minutes until a post in the bizarro gun news thread… You mean the useless thread that a grand total of one person posts in? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9502 "2021-05-31T21:39:03Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > You mean the useless thread that a grand total of one person posts in? I find it amusing that he’s the only one who posts in it anymore. I hope this continues. Although, perhaps a mod could suggest that he get a fucking blog. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9503 "2021-05-31T21:49:32Z")
He already has a blog – It’s that thread. Proudly powning the libs since 1973 (it’s taking longer than he thought) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9504 "2021-05-31T22:01:55Z")
It’s like a guy fishing in the same pond for years, and nobody has the heart to tell him that there are no fish in there. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9505 "2021-05-31T22:04:16Z")
Nope, We have plenty of heart: The mods have told us years ago not to troll Bone’s pet project. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=474) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=476)