# Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428 "2022-01-26T17:10:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/861 "2023-02-19T15:55:21Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Where were they shot Rick? They sustained minor injuries, so apparently nowhere crucial. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/862 "2023-02-19T16:05:39Z")
That doesn’t narrow it down - nowhere crucial describes both Florida and Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/863 "2023-02-19T19:52:01Z")
I’m having a bad weekend. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/864 "2023-02-19T20:28:48Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m having a bad weekend. Yes, but may none of your ends have any superfluous holes in them. That said, “they sustained minor injuries”? Given that they were all children that seemed a given… yet still completely and totally horrible. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/865 "2023-02-19T21:20:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m having a bad weekend. Don’t sweat it. I’ve read some of my old (cringeworthy) posts, typos and small mistakes happen. Sometimes it leads to humor. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/866 "2023-02-19T21:22:48Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Sometimes it leads to humor _Eww_. Do _not_ be telling us about your humors. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/867 "2023-02-19T21:27:01Z")
**Another** shooting in Memphis. > **[1 dead, 10 injured in Memphis shootings](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/1-dead-10-injured-in-memphis-shootings/ar-AA17Gxok?cvid=cd9bf43d1586445ef144b6963fc6b61f&ocid=winp2fptaskbar)** > > One person was killed and 10 more were injured on Sunday in two Memphis, Tenn.,  shootings authorities believe to be connected, police say.  Memphis Police Department officers responded t… ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/868 "2023-02-20T11:48:32Z")
Texas third-grader finds a gun left in a bathroom stall by the the school’s superintendent, who open-carries at his elementary school. > **[Report: Elementary school student finds gun superintendent left in bathroom](https://local12.com/news/nation-world/gun-school-bathroom-student-found-elementary-superintendent-left-restroom-stall-3rd-grade-firearm-campus-weapon-child-rising-star-texas)** > > Police are investigating after a third-grader in Texas found a gun in his elementary school's bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/869 "2023-02-20T12:38:12Z")
> “There was never a danger other than the obvious,” he said. Wow - that is so blindingly stupid I can’t even come up with analogous stupidities (although it seems they are just out of my grasp in my brain). ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/870 "2023-02-20T15:11:10Z")
There is so much stupid in that one article! Stupid that the superintendent and principal open carry. Stupid that the superintendent is too stupid to retrieve his gun after he takes a shit (seriously, was it just sitting on the TP dispenser?). Stupid that superintendent is “proud of the student for how he handled the situation”. Stupid that moron says “There was never a danger other than the obvious”. And stupid that this dipshit in charge hasn’t been fired. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/871 "2023-02-20T15:35:08Z")
I know that I said it and expressed it somewhere… and I know that I wasn’t the first nor the best in how it was said. I know that I’m stealing someone here’s words, and for that I am sorry. They said that bringing guns / more guns into schools was a stupid idea because you are adding unnecessary danger(s) to a building filled with immature minds that we send there to educate and to find wisdom and maturity. It’s like allowing smoking in a gasoline refinery because some people can’t kick the habit: its just an unsafe practice. Now, here we are 1-2 years later we are finding that every thing that poster said has come true and that unsafe gun handling by untrained people has done nothing but put children’s lives at risk and in danger. Yet the Abbotts and the gun salesmen of this world learn nothing and blindly steer the ship, setting course actually looking for icebergs… ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/872 "2023-02-20T16:01:47Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > and the gun salesmen of this world learn nothing They learned that they can make more money off fear. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/873 "2023-02-20T16:38:47Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > And stupid that this dipshit in charge hasn’t been fired. Probably won’t be, because Texas. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/874 "2023-02-20T16:44:53Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Yet the Abbotts and the gun salesmen of this world learn nothing and blindly steer the ship, setting course actually looking for icebergs… ‘Since you mentioned it, you’re absolutely right and that’s why we must allow the open carry of flame-throwers.’ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/875 "2023-02-20T17:16:55Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > There is so much stupid in that one article! Stupid that the superintendent and principal open carry. Stupid that the superintendent is too stupid to retrieve his gun after he takes a shit (seriously, was it just sitting on the TP dispenser?). Stupid that superintendent is “proud of the student for how he handled the situation”. Stupid that moron says “There was never a danger other than the obvious”. And stupid that this dipshit in charge hasn’t been fired. Worse yet (from the dipshit’s point of view) - why hasn’t his permit for open carry been revoked? He obviously doesn’t have the first idea of real gun safety! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/876 "2023-02-20T17:26:50Z")
Given this gross negligence, I think he shouldn’t be allowed to have any guns. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/877 "2023-02-20T18:25:50Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Worse yet (from the dipshit’s point of view) - why hasn’t his permit for open carry been revoked? He obviously doesn’t have the first idea of real gun safety! What is there to revoke? Texas does not require a permit for open carry. (or concealed carry, for that matter.) > **[Guides: Gun Laws: Carry of Firearms](https://guides.sll.texas.gov/gun-laws/carry-of-firearms)** > > This guide provides information on Texas and federal gun laws including: background checks, open carry, concealed carry, handgun licenses, restrictions for felons, and local regulation of firearms and shooting ranges. > [@](#): > > As of 2021, people who qualify under the law can carry a handgun in a public place in Texas without a license to carry (LTC). Which is why people without the first idea of gun safety are walking around leaving their guns in elementary school bathrooms. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/878 "2023-02-21T16:29:35Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > “There was never a danger other than the obvious” “Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?” ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/879 "2023-02-21T16:43:24Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > > “There was never a danger other than the obvious,” he said. > > Wow - that is so blindingly stupid OTOH, it is at least mostly correct. The danger was really the obvious one of a 3rd grader finding a loaded gun in the bathroom. I have to hand it to the man that he correctly identified the crux of the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/880 "2023-02-21T16:49:16Z")
There’s the slightly greater danger of a first-grader or a kindergartener finding the gun instead of a responsible, mature third-grader. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428.md?page=45)