The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

http://gawker.com/pop-tart-gun-tyke-gets-lifetime-nra-membership-refuses-510531201

And remember, using kids as political props is bad. Until it isn't. Also, too.

thought you wrote the assault rife shot cake, Granny.

should've noted that this boy's parents are...a litigator and corporate attorney.

that's a terrible gun, kid

it's a terrible gun and I'm walkin with spiders (bc old pop-tarts attract ants, and ants attract spiders)

when I was in 6th grade (1977) our teacher did an exercise where she had two guys from class go out to "run an errand" and then come back, get into an argument, have one "shoot" the other with a cap gun, and then they both ran out the door. The teacher asked us to write down exactly what happened, what they said, what they were wearing, etc. - it was a lesson in subjectivity of the observer. I've never forgotten it, but more and more I think "wow I am old, that would never ever happen today"

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/batavia_geneva_st_charles/chi-10-hurt-in-shotgun-accident-at-gun-club-20130605,0,392342.story

another fun day at ye olde gun range

Make sure you're following David Waldman's #gunfail series at Daily Kos. He's on Week 21: http://www.dailykos.com/news/GunFail

Because the incident was an accident, police said there will be no criminal charges.

This shit drives me nuts. Since when is negligence which leads to injury not chargeable just because "it was an accident?" Auto drivers can't get away with that, why should gun owners?

lol auto drivers get away with that every day

True. But people at least have the good taste to get pissed about it sometimes.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/articles/20130607prescott-valley-boy-shoots-kills-father-abrk.html

http://i.imgur.com/aT9r7w2.jpg

Oh hey just a homemade drone w/a remote control handgun nothing to see here move along

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxThXvuP4Vo

The best part? This effort is all to advertise *smartphone screen protectors.* Just think what a REALLY motivated person could do.

that is insane yet strangely satisfying. digging the vaporwave soundtrack.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/free/20130716arizona-boy-shot-fort-huachuca.html

http://news.yahoo.com/fire-fears-trigger-u-rocky-mountain-ban-exploding-024811964.html

The U.S. Forest Service has blamed the targets for lighting 16 wildfires since 2012, seven of them in the five-state region under the ban. The blazes together cost more than $33 million to put out.

http://www.kmov.com/news/just-posted/Police-Gun-safety-219327371.html

LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) -- Police say an instructor at a central Ohio gun safety class has accidentally shot a student.

lol

"...(the student) tells the newspaper it appears (the instructor) didn’t know the gun was loaded..."

I mean, seriously

that is comedy direct from god. i have no other way to interpret it.

http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Gun-rights-rally-to-break-long-Alamo-tradition-4907464.php

i sincerely hope all these people just go ahead and shoot each other

Guns & Ammo editor steps down following pro-gun control editorial

eh fuck em all

He just didn't love guns enough

http://i.imgur.com/ZhJjF31.jpg

aw, he shd start a pacifist rival publication to axe cop

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) is expected to sign a bill that even the National Rifle Association is calling the most “comprehensive gun bill” in recent state history. It allows guns in bars, nightclubs, and government buildings without security checkpoints such as libraries. It eliminates criminal charges for those who accidentally bring their guns to the airport or other secured buildings where guns are prohibited. It even expands the state’s Stand Your Ground provision to allow felons to invoke the defense, and allows guns in public schools by authorized teachers and administrators.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/03/25/3418602/georgia-governor-expected-to-sign-the-most-extreme-gun-bill-in-america/#

WTF?

It eliminates criminal charges for those who accidentally bring their guns to the airport or other secured buildings where guns are prohibited.

Yeah, Atlanta-Hartsfield is one of the biggest in the world, that can't be right.

LOL @ 'accidentally' bringing your guns to the airport. Does that work if you are Muslim?

Yeah they have to mean eliminating any state charges that exist over/above fed charges, surely.

This year there have been two cases of high school students in my county accidentally bringing their guns to school in their cars.

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/south-river-high-student-expelled-for-having-shotgun-in-car/article_46e48299-e807-5751-8d23-bb9bbf7b4800.html

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/shotgun-found-in-student-s-truck-at-southern-high-school/article_6602ec3a-9eb6-5517-8bdc-3b64d6779757.html

this happened once when i was in HS, kid had a hunting rifle back there and had forgotten in #countryshit

*it

Sure, and I can basically see that happening with some regularity pre-Columbine.

fwiw this was post columbine

the georgia stuff feels like the policy equivalent of trolling.

"you want gun control, eh?"

I thought we figured all this out already. No? Oh, well.

Seriously, though, thanks to NRA nuts and their obsession with concealed carry, every fucking building in my city now has to have a decal of a gun with a slash through it to show that guns are not welcome. The elementary schools, places of worship, bookstores and coffee shops ... as if the prohibition of guns in those places is the exception, not the rule. So dispiriting to volunteer in my kids school and see the stupid stickers up. What does it teach them? That everyone in the city is likely packing? Is that the NRA long game, to try to convert America's youth to their paranoid ways? I can imagine their retort now.

"Maybe if we begin teaching our kids about gun skill and safety and let them carry them we could prevent the next whatever. If only the liberals would allow kids to carry guns to school..."

Throws $10 million dollars at some asshole running for some public office.

had another otherwise-relaxing hike marred by the loud, intermittent POPPOPPOP of someone enjoying their gun shooting hobby. way low on the list of shitty effects of gun culture, but point being that even when it's someone being a "good gun owner", following all laws, being conscientious about keeping their guns out of kids' hands, etc, just having it around for peace of mind and target practice, it's at the least an annoying fucking hobby. Used to play tennis at courts near the local gun club, ahhh what a peaceful way to spend a weekend afternoon, the sunshine, the friendly athletic competition, the incessant POPOPOPOPOPOP.

idk i'd kinda like that

Seriously, though, thanks to NRA nuts and their obsession with concealed carry, every fucking building in my city now has to have a decal of a gun with a slash through it to show that guns are not welcome.

my city is like this too, every business and office has one of those stickers. except the gun shop, i guess.

Concealed carry obsessives are pathetic, but that's some "Ugh, why are all these signs in Mexican too" bullshit. The horror, the horror of gun pictograms in my line of sight.

Yeah, nothing horrible about seeing a no-handgun sign in the front door of an elementary school.

True the gun control crowd are a lot like racists

for those with any interest in the 3d printed guns debate: http://gizmodo.com/join-the-debate-3d-printed-guns-or-government-regulati-1555676392

i dont even have a gun, but if i mention that to people, they dont seem to like it one bit!

damn, a couple dudes were murdered (shot to death) by a career criminal the other night in the Central District of Seattle and they turned out to be friends of friends :(

I didn't know them personally but I've never had gun violence hit so close to home.