Rangeview High School in Aurora, Colorado:

About an hour after school let out for the day, the student was getting a ride home from a school employee who also works a second job as an armed security officer, according to police. The employee was trying to put his gun into the glove box of the car when the weapon fired, hitting the student in the leg.

The man drove the student to a nearby hospital, arriving around 4:30 p.m., police said. The student was rushed into surgery with what police described as a “significant injury” to his leg.

Consider this: Though only about 35-40% of America own guns, we have almost as many guns as people. Almost 300 million firearms.

If we can’t cut down on this menace to civilization, can’t we cut down on the negligence? Can’t we foster some responsibility?

Because this is endemic violence by another name. It’s murder by stupid. And this needs to be stopped. This has to be punished. Your weapon misfires in public by any means, you go to prison. For 6 months. If it misfires within 100 yards of children, 12 months in lockup. If it misfires and hits someone, 5 years in jail. I’ll be much more tolerant of the N.R.A. after the penitentiaries start loading up with their yahoos.

It’s about time we figured out whether the Good Guys With Guns are really all that good. The word also means “adept.” You carry a killing machine into the public realm, the law puts you on the hook. It’s only right.

If hypocrisy doesn’t make you want to throw down Jesus Christ’s yellow rose and march right off the set then something is wrong with you.

Stephen King and the Second Amendment
By Ron Capshaw | National Review

Stephen King has declared his support for gun control in an 8,000-word essay published by Amazon. In it, King condemns the NRA and advocates banning guns with more than ten rounds. He even goes beyond Obama’s pledge to protect hunting rifles and calls on hunters to give up “their sporting toys.”

He says he wants fewer guns in America. But . .

In The Stand, after millions of American citizens are wiped out by a “superflu” created in an Army lab, the libertarian argument of how helpless an unarmed citizenry would be in a country where only criminals and the Army have guns is validated in the book’s black-helicopter America.

And what happens?

Televised broadcasts show citizens in a lethal gauntlet between the army on one side and far-left terrorists on the other. Freedom of the press is eradicated as broadcasters are forced to read government propaganda with a gun literally pointed at their heads.

It’s like a nightmare.

In the more contemporary Desperation, a lone highway patrolman is able to capture whole groups of unarmed drivers. Without weapons, the captives are unable to prevent the police officer from killing a little girl. The captors escape and, rather than phoning the ACLU, obtain as many automatic weapons as possible.

It’s like some kinda horror show.

And consider the novel Cujo. Had the mother been carrying even a hunting rifle she could have shot the rabid dog within seconds of encountering the animal, and thus spared her son a slow death.

Suppose you’re a wisp of a girl. Yes, you, with your dirty pillows. Suppose you’re the type for gym shower shenanigans. Suppose you can juggle knives with your mind. Suppose you can turn John Travolta’s car into a bonfire. Suppose you can turn John Travolta into a bonfire. Who more than you needs a Laser-Sighted Bushmaster M4A3 16″ Patrolman’s Carbine? Nobody. Are your schoolmates going to tease you? Not any more. When they vote you Prom Queen, you can be sure they mean it.

We have come to the rational end of the road. You thought gun nuts were a fetishist and apparently brain-damaged bunch. And you were right. Because it’s impossible to have a discussion with anyone who swears the Second Amendment shields the Bill of Rights. You can’t reason with someone who literally can’t go on without his Glock. But this? You won’t believe this.

An Arizona group say they are upset with what they claim is deadly government overreach. So they are demanding that lawmakers prevent the state from slaughtering any more poor defenseless firearms.

A gun-rights group is pressing the Legislature to block municipalities from destroying guns voluntarily turned in to police departments.

The Arizona Citizens Defense League requested a change in the law adding guns “surrendered” willfully by the owner to the list of firearms police departments must recirculate back into the market . .

“It’s already in the law. The problem is they’re misconstruing the law. So we’re changing the words so their perfidy is made very clear,” [Communications Director Charles] Heller said.

Government perfidy. State-sponsored treason and treachery. The killing of innocents. The shocking crimes have forced the ACDL and the NRA to leap to the defense of weapons. Really, it’s not like a poor M-16 can defend itself.

“We’d love to see anybody that destroys a gun at the city get arrested, but we don’t think that would pass the Legislature,” Heller said. “It’d be nice if it did.”

And isn’t it about time somebody went after the bastards? You bet.

Well, okay, the government is vested with substantial power. It is legally tasked with the killing of human beings, like death row inmates, and the euthanasia of thousands of cats and dogs abandoned every year by its citizens. The gun nuts would be the first people to tell you they’re good with that. But since when does the state think it can murder a handgun?

“. . the purpose of government as defined by Arizona’s Constitution is to protect people’s rights, not destroy firearms.”

“It’s not the purpose of government,” he said. “It’s an abuse of the intent of government and it’s an abuse of power.”

All across America, giddy gun nuts brandishing their favorite acting Clint Eastwood squints and for real death factories gathered together today for the birthday of Martin Luther King Junior Gun Appreciation Day, a celebration of wasted human development and abated sexual adequacy. Though the meeting between the Southern Toofless, Midwestern Fatbags and Idaho You Name Its has the effect of soothing somewhat their common lust for Orlando Bloom’s haunches, the real goal of the day is to allow the routine mishandling of weaponry to result in public human slaughter rather than the paltry private offing of family pets, Nazi pottery and children. Thanks, it’s going well:

Emergency personnel had to be called to the scene of the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina after a gun accidentally discharged and shot two people at the show’s safety check-in booth just after 1 pm. Both victims were transported to an area hospital, and the Raleigh Fire Department announced that the show would be closed for the rest of the day . .

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UPDATE: Two similar incidents occurred at entirely separate gun shows in the Midwest, one in the Cleveland suburb of Medina, Ohio and the other at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana. In Ohio, the local ABC affiliate reports that one individual was brought to a hospital by EMS, and in Indiana Channel 8 WISH says that an individual shot himself in the hand while trying to reload his gun in the show parking lot. That brings the tally to 4 victims of gun violence so far at three different gun shows during the country’s first Gun Appreciation Day.

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UPDATE: CNN is reporting that three people were injured at the gun show in Raleigh, not two as originally reported. All were victims of a shotgun that fired while the owner was removing it from a case.

3 shootings, 5 hospitalizations. On the plasma-splatter scale, I give it a hearty 10 pints.

How hard is it to have a sober adult discussion on gun control? Nearly impossible. You could more easily talk about oral sex practices than reasonable gun laws with Americans. They are obsessed with their weapons. You bring up the subject, they simply lose their minds.

Obama’s collaborators in Wyoming
Wyoming Gun Owners | December 20, 2012

Two weeks ago Judge Jeffery A. Donnell violated his oath to the Wyoming Constitution when he issued a — gun free zone order — in the Albany County building, claiming he can do so by his OWN authority.

His plan to override the current law from the bench is devious to say the least. It’s very likely that Judge Donnell hopes in-time his unlawful order will be decided by collaborators in the Wyoming Supreme Court . .

Judge Donnell’s orders, don’t be fooled by the terms “courthouse,” he’s talking about the entire “County business building.”

Wyoming covers an expanse of 100,000 square miles. But one single building got declared a gun-free zone, and it made the gun nuts drooling mad. It’s a courthouse for Christ’s sake. You don’t need an AK-47 to pay your parking tickets. You certainly don’t need to post the guy’s picture as if he were Geronimo. Wyoming appears to be one helluva backward planet:

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is spurring national leaders to call for tighter federal gun-control laws. But several Wyoming legislators say they are planning to sponsor legislation that would do the opposite.

Incoming Speaker of the House Tom Lubnau, R-Gillette, said he is drafting legislation that would end gun-free zones . .

Lubnau said more gun restrictions will not necessary lead to less violence. He added that violent acts are routinely carried out with weapons other than guns.

He pointed to last month’s deadly bow-and-arrow attack at Casper College as one recent example.

This is what I’m talking about. You want to discuss the effects of unregulated weapons in a civilized society, they remind you someone once took an arrow to the head. Oh, have as many guns as you like then.

Drama queen nation:

. . your chance of dying in a school shooting approximates that of being struck by lightning. In contrast, Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck estimates that 2.5 million Americans each year use guns for self-defense and that 400,000 of them say they would have been killed if they hadn’t been armed. That’s 400,000 a year.

Americans are so full of shit. If the pussies didn’t have their guns, the number of homicides in the country would jump from 16,000 to 416,000. Mmmkay. There would be a 16% surge in the country’s mortality. Not owning a gun would become the third leading cause of death, right behind heart disease and cancer. Right. Is it any wonder we can’t have a sensible discussion about gun control? Half the U.S. are Liza Minnellis, waving their M-16s at the rest of us.

Can I show you my new gun?

A 21-year-old Joliet [Illinois] man accidentally shot and killed himself while trying to demonstrate how the safety mechanism worked on his new handgun, authorities said today.

Deon D. Perry was pronounced dead at 5:40 a.m. Saturday at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center.

It’s the safest one on the market.

Last week:

Police said the spouses were sitting across from each other in a booth about 8:15 p.m. on Jan. 2 when the man reached into his front pants pocket and accidentally discharged a small pistol, striking his wife in the leg just above the knee. She was treated at a hospital and released.

The man had a valid permit to carry a concealed weapon, said Officer Dan Friesen of the Lenexa [Kansas] Police Department.

Your man card has been validated.

Outside Twigs Reloading Den.

MERCER, Pa. (AP) — A man’s handgun went off while he was holding it as he got into his truck in the parking lot of a western Pennsylvania gun store Saturday, and the shot killed his 7-year-old son, authorities said.

Joseph V. Loughrey, 44, of Sharpsville, was getting into the truck when the 9 mm handgun discharged, wounding Craig Allen Loughrey in the chest, according to state police. The boy died at the scene at Twigs Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Remember. A real man protects his family.

The incident occurred near the end of a training class, when the victim, an instructor in the class was conducting a post-run AAR with a class student. While details are thin, what is apparent is that Sonny entered the shoot house while the instructor and possibly the student were still in the house, and at some time after entering the shoot house, fired three shots which struck the fellow instructor twice in the abdomen and once in an extremity. According to reports, the shooting happened during low light, and Sonny’s gun wasn’t equipped with a weapon mounted light, nor was he using a flashlight in the shoot house. The victim is in the hospital recovering from his wounds and is expected to survive.

You want this guy living next to you? Maybe not.

An armed nation is a safe place to live.

A 56-year-old man entering the Gibraltar Trade Center in Mount Clemens [Michigan] on Friday accidentally shot himself while unloading his pistol, police said . .

“They have a policy that no loaded weapons are allowed in the facility. They have a clearing area where they ask those entering to clear their weapon,” Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said. “He was clearing his weapon. It discharged and (he) shot himself in the leg.”

The man, identified as a resident of Harrison Township, was taken by Mount Clemens Fire Department paramedics to McLaren Macomb hospital in Mount Clemens for treatment of the non-life threatening injury.

Please Jesus send us more of these hobbyists.

Weapons celebrity killed:

Keith Ratliff, whose gun enthusiast YouTube channel FPSRussia is among the most popular on the video site, was found dead on January 3rd — killed by a single shot to the head. Ratliff’s body was discovered in the office where he stored many of the handguns and high-powered rifles that helped his videos starring friend Kyle Myers climb the YouTube charts. The clips on FPSRussia, which feature Myers enthusiastically discussing a gun before showcasing its firepower in dramatic fashion (often involving explosions), have been viewed millions of times.