# 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:** 497
**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:** [December 21, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9928 "2021-12-21T01:40:26Z")
“That’ll teach you to drop your blue baggy inside my recycle bin!” - 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9929 "2021-12-21T10:09:14Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > I mean, yeah, sure, this is America, I agree, but that doesn’t mean I just let my SUV run overnight where it’s parked. > > “Just because you _can…_ ” Yes, well… > **[Rolling coal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal)** > > Rolling coal (also spelled rollin' coal) is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to emit large amounts of black or grey sooty exhaust fumes—diesel fuel that has not undergone complete combustion. > Rolling coal is a form of anti-environmentalism. Such modifications may include the intentional removal of the particulate filter. Practitioners often additionally modify their vehicles by installing smoke switches, large exhausts, and smoke stacks. Modifications to a vehicle to enable rolling coal... _USA! USA! USA!_ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9930 "2021-12-21T11:13:48Z")
You got to hand it to Americans: every country has its idiots, but only Americans put so much _work_ into their stupidity. That’s that can-do spirit we keep hearing about! ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9931 "2021-12-21T14:09:24Z")
For my blistering retort, may I offer this old pearl: [![](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/40a/3b9/b22ae3001f142a69a0b671243386797f15-29-president-trump-american-flag-cpac-20.rhorizontal.w700.jpg) ](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/40a/3b9/b22ae3001f142a69a0b671243386797f15-29-president-trump-american-flag-cpac-20.rhorizontal.w700.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 21, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9932 "2021-12-21T16:28:10Z")
Hey, I thought people weren’t supped to use the flag to wipe their ass… ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9933 "2021-12-21T22:20:21Z")
An understandable mistake (on your part); after all, shit does come out of the portion of his anatomy touching the flag. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9934 "2021-12-22T04:01:46Z")
Weren’t there TWO events where Trump did that humping the flag schtick? ISTR he did that at CPAC two years in a row, or at some other such event. Those pics of him making whoopie with the flag are among the most DIZGUSTING pics of him that I can think of. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9935 "2021-12-22T12:24:13Z")
Man shot in theater in dispute over seats: > **[Man shot in Phipps Plaza movie theater over seat dispute, police say](https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/man-shot-in-buckhead-movie-theater-over-seat-dispute-police-say/HUYKBO22AREGNEPXC7YXLKSB54/)** > > A shot rang out inside a Buckhead movie theater on Monday night after two people got into an argument over seat assignments, police said. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9936 "2021-12-22T17:14:43Z")
… I turned down the chance to see the new Spiderman movie because of reports that no one was wearing COVID masks. Now, this sh-t? What’s coming back next? Black powder pistol duels? ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9937 "2021-12-23T17:25:09Z")
Man fatally shot over flag football dispute in Washington, D.C. in the shadow of our capitol. > **[Police arrest suspect in fatal shooting during flag football game on Capitol...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/22/police-arrest-football-shooting-capitol-hill/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE0NzE3MjYiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjQwMjgwMjUxLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjQxNDg5ODUxLCJpYXQiOjE2NDAyODAyNTEsImp0aSI6IjU1ZjEyOGFkLTMyZWMtNGM1Ni04ZWI2LTZmYzA3MzIyMGU4NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9kYy1tZC12YS8yMDIxLzEyLzIyL3BvbGljZS1hcnJlc3QtZm9vdGJhbGwtc2hvb3RpbmctY2FwaXRvbC1oaWxsLyJ9.1MLfT005InfJBWEPPGDuO47VoXbkUo5qt2txWERlQcs&itid=gfta)** > > The shooting came after a game marred by tension and trash-talk, court papers say ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9938 "2021-12-23T19:58:18Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Man fatally shot over flag football dispute in Washington, D.C. in the shadow of our capitol. No doubt he was aiming for Pelosi, but missed. Note, the suspected perp’s name is Hawley. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9939 "2021-12-29T22:02:22Z")
> **[North Carolina 3-year-old who accidentally shot herself on Christmas Day...](https://us.cnn.com/2021/12/29/us/north-carolina-christmas-shooting-toddler-dies/index.html)** > > Aylee Gordon, a 3-year-old girl who accidentally suffered a gunshot wound on Christmas Day, died Tuesday evening, according to a release from the Henderson County Sheriff's Office. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9940 "2021-12-29T23:35:36Z")
That is unspeakably sad. From an earlier article in a different source: > Aylee Gordon’s father, a retired Henderson County Sheriff’s Office Captain, said she found the gun by accident in a truck parked outside their house. > > “She picked up a pistol and shot herself in the head by accident. We didn’t know. She’s got a head wound,” her father, Tim Gordon, said in the 911 call. > > Gordon told the dispatcher they had a friend visiting for Christmas, and that person left a gun in the car. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9941 "2021-12-30T03:26:54Z")
The gun was Not in the visitor’s vehicle–it was in the father’s vehicle: > **[Henderson County News: 911 call: Girl, 3, shot herself after picking up...](https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/news/11157-911-call-girl-3-shot-herself-after-picking-up-pistol-in-seat-of-pickup.html)** > > Henderson County (Dec 28, 2021) - A 3½-year-old girl accidentally shot herself in the head after she had ridden her new bicycle on Christmas Day and then picked up the loaded 9-mm pistol in the backseat of her father’s pickup truck, the father told... ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9942 "2021-12-30T03:33:10Z")
I’m sure someone will be along and explain to us that, unattended, loaded, ready to fire, in the back seat of a pick up is responsible gun storage. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9943 "2021-12-30T06:22:24Z")
He said that they had a visitor for the holidays and the visitor went in the car and he did not know it. That is how he put it. I mean, I can understand a distraught parent being somewhat incoherent. Guns chambered ready to fire, though. It was not an “accident”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9944 "2021-12-30T09:34:57Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > I’m sure someone will be along and explain to us that, unattended, loaded, ready to fire, in the back seat of a pick up is responsible gun storage. I will at least credit them for being unlikely to make that argument. We’re more likely to get the “No True Gun Owner just leaves loaded guns lying around like that” defense. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9945 "2021-12-30T09:55:12Z")
We will hear that he shouldn’t be prosecuted, he lost his daughter, he’s suffered enough. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9946 "2021-12-30T15:46:11Z")
Good guy with a gun made a little mistake. > **[16-year-old girl, mistaken for intruder, fatally shot by father at home in Ohio](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/30/16-year-old-girl-fatally-shot-southeast-side/9052660002/)** > > Janae Hairston, 16, was shot and killed in her family's garage after being mistaken for an intruder by her father Wednesday morning. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729/9947 "2021-12-30T16:29:42Z")
Same thing happened in **[Memphis in August](https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/father-shoots-kills-8-year-old-daughter-while-checking-intruders-police-say/YKTPWBLBBZF2XAYBVFCQGCWTUE/)**, **[Ohio in 2016](https://www.fox19.com/story/30942657/police-father-shoots-son-14-thought-he-was-intruder/)**, **[Las Vega in 2019 (not fatal)](https://www.8newsnow.com/news/father-shoots-13-year-old-son-mistaken-for-intruder/)**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=496) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-1/648729.md?page=498)