# 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:** 54
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1061 "2023-04-20T14:14:08Z")
What that needed was a good basketball with a gun. (Does this mean I’ve just accepted daily shootings as a part of life? I dunno!) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1062 "2023-04-20T14:27:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What this sadly reminds me of is the somewhat longish thread from years ago where at least one poster was actually defending the homeowner who incapacited one or two individuals who broke into his house and then, after a while, the homeowner shot one or both to death. What the fuck? That’s just straight up murder. Defebding that is absolutely disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1063 "2023-04-20T17:10:27Z")
Totally undefebdable! ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1064 "2023-04-20T17:12:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Totally undefebdable I’m also opposed to defending it, but defenestrating the perpetrator is probably fine. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1065 "2023-04-21T15:38:46Z")
Has this become Stupid Gub News of the Day now? ---
**Author:** ![SlipperyPete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@SlipperyPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlipperyPete)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1066 "2023-04-21T16:23:44Z")
WWJS - Who would Jesus shoot? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1067 "2023-04-21T16:48:37Z")
That’s such a great scene from that movie! Here it is in all of it’s splendor (you’ll have to remove the space from the // and the w): https:// [Take the Money and Run - I Have a Gub, Apt Natural - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdMdboymT8) ETA: No, just click on the link. Somehow, that works. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1068 "2023-04-22T06:45:16Z")
I’m thinking the event you’re talking about was the [killing of Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Haile_Kifer_and_Nicholas_Brady?wprov=sfti1) back in 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1069 "2023-04-22T07:16:00Z")
That’s it! ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1070 "2023-04-22T11:22:18Z")
Responsible gun owner holds supermarket employee at gunpoint because the meat counter is closed. > **[Springfield man charged with demanding meat at gunpoint](https://www.ozarksfirst.com/crime/springfield-man-charged-with-demanding-meat-at-gunpoint/)** > > REPUBLIC, Mo. — On April 18, Republic Police Department officers were called to a Price Cutter to respond to a call about a robbery in which a man held an employee at gunpoint so that he would be s… ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1071 "2023-04-22T12:02:58Z")
Just a hunter culling the slowest and weakest steaks. And he did pay for the meat (pretty sure). ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1072 "2023-04-22T13:38:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > What that needed was a good basketball with a gun. > > (Does this mean I’ve just accepted daily shootings as a part of life? I dunno!) Gotta laugh to keep from crying. Dan ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1073 "2023-04-22T15:03:17Z")
Came here to post that too. Y’all really need to read the whole story to get the full flavor of what a dipshit the guy is. > The officer asked Gay why he thought the people in the store called police and told them he was threatening them with his gun. > > “I don’t know,” Gay said in the interview. “I have no idea.” ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1074 "2023-04-22T15:10:56Z")
> The employee said he received a call from the meat department about a man packing his own meat. The employee approached Gay and told him that he could not be there. Gay got upset and said he was going to keep doing what he was doing. The employee said he was not going to help him with the meat. > > “Once he held the gun to my throat — pushed it into my throat — I decided to comply,” the employee told police. Just another example of a hoplophobic snowflake overreacting to the mere threat of being murdered! /end sarcasm ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1075 "2023-04-22T15:18:05Z")
A well armed society is a polite society. If the employee had been armed and shot this guy’s head off, society would be minus one asshole. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1076 "2023-04-22T15:23:37Z")
I will stand before oG and swear that Packing Meat while Packing Heat was legal in Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1077 "2023-04-22T15:25:44Z")
Off topic: I was reading this at the moment your word edit posted and I saw it happen – how minisculely cool is 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:** [April 22, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1078 "2023-04-22T20:03:00Z")
It almost resembles life, happening in _real time_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1079 "2023-04-23T04:41:01Z")
Instacart almost becomes instadeath for a couple of Floridians. [Florida couple delivering Instacart groceries shot at after driving to wrong address | WFLA](https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-couple-delivering-instacart-groceries-shot-at-after-driving-to-wrong-address/?fbclid=IwAR2EPtOvz7CMlfuqccxd-jFbFjn40LnN1uMCHLyVxiey2ynGe_2Yn2NwQ-Q) The icing on the urinal cake? ““(A detective) asked if we wanted to prosecute and we agreed to do that, but he said since they didn’t break any laws or do anything unlawful, they couldn’t do anything because we were on their property,” D’arville told WTVJ.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428/1080 "2023-04-23T05:00:55Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Jesus. > > Expect Amazon delivery costs to go up soon, when the drivers start demanding hazard pay. > > Also UPS and FED-EX (USPS will have to hope for approval for a rate increase, which seems unlikely, given that we _just_ had one). Add Instacart to that list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-gun-news-of-the-day-part-2/958428.md?page=55)