The bad news: There was yet another mass shooting, one of the victims being a 10-year-old girl who was grazed and thankfully is in good condition. The good news: There were no deaths.
Happy Mother’s day:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 17 people, police said.
Three suspects were seen running from the scene. Raw video at the link.
Sadly, yesterday, there was another shooting of one small child by another. Via TPM:
A five-year-old boy in Denton, Texas was left in critical condition after he was shot in the head by his eight-year-old friend Saturday morning. According to the Denton Record-Chronicle, the police said the two boys were alone in the bedroom when the older child found a .22 caliber rifle, pointed it at the other boy, and shot him.
Nope, we weren’t going to shoot at the target, nosireebob. h/t.
A Port Canaveral police sergeant was fired Friday after an internal investigation showed he offered other officers a target resembling Trayvon Martin to use for shooting practice.
Sgt. Ron King, a firearms instructor and two-year veteran of the force, offered the target of a hoodie-wearing figure at the range near Cocoa during the first week of April, Rosalind Harvey, a port spokeswoman, said Saturday.
The other officers, who were on duty, refused, officials said.
In a YouTube video posted late Saturday, King said he did not intend for the Trayvon target to be used for shooting. It was designed “to use a bad situation as a learning tool,” he said.
Port Canaveral Interim Chief Executive Officer John Walsh apologized publicly to Trayvon’s family Saturday and called King’s behavior unacceptable, insensitive and unprofessional.
NRA instructor describes accidentally shooting himself in the foot – the lessons he drew — and why gun control measures threaten citizens’ rights and safety.
Kenny is a 49-year-old licensed National Rifle Association instructor who leads training classes in pistol and rifle use.
Q:
“So then why do you need the rifle if the government’s gonna roll ya?”
Kenny the NRA instructor:
“Because every particular firearm has its own personality. It shoots differently. Some are more accurate. Some shoot, kick light.”
Ahhh, got it! Finally! The reason gun fetishists gotta have a firearm that will be completely ineffective against the heavy artillery and drones that the U.S. government will undoubtedly use on its own citizens IS– fanfare!– because every firearm has its own personality.
At long last, the mystery of irrational fear and obsession with military style weaponry is solved.
NRA instructor Eugene Kenny would have joined his fellow gun-rights supporters at the state Capitol Wednesday—if he hadn’t accidentally shot himself in the foot. [...]
Wearing an NRA hooded sweatshirt, he had his left foot in a cast because he accidentally shot a bullet last week while cleaning his Glock handgun.
Let’s review our lessons, now, class: There are no gun accidents. There is plenty of gun negligence.
Please proceed, Kenny:
“I usually always cock it back and it usually ejects a shell that’s in the chamber. You pull the trigger to release the slide … This time there was a cartridge in there. And BANG! Hit my ankle.”
“There was a cartridge in there,” said NRA Instructor Kenny. No, it wasn’t “in there.” Kenny negligently left it in there, or failed to notice it was in there, but it wasn’t just magically “in there.”
Did I mention that Kenny had $8,000 worth of guns—ten, mostly handguns, plus a rifle– stolen from his apartment? They must have been grabbed by the “bad guys”– who now have the “good guy’s” guns.
Ooo! Ooo! I bet you didn’t know that gun safety laws are adding jobs:
He said while he opposes the package of bills in Hartford on philosophical grounds, they may only help his business because rifle owners and others may need new certification training.
Remember that graphic, Sarah Palin’s “hit list” from 2010, back when she was targeting House Democrats and used gun sight icons to make the point? That was pretty appalling and she got a lot of blowback for it. You might even say she was caught in the cross hairs:
So should former NRA lobbyist and founder of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners Dudley Brown be for his remarks. Think Progress is reporting on his interview with NPR, during which he said this:
Brown complains universal background checks are just a step towards identifying gun owners so the government can seize their weapons, and he calls the 15-bullet limit on ammunition clips arbitrary. He’s promising political payback in next year’s election that could cost Colorado Democrats their majorities.
“I liken it to the proverbial hunting season,” Brown says. “We tell gun owners, there’s a time to hunt deer. And the next election is the time to hunt Democrats.”
Between the continuing Republican references to “hunting Democrats” and their bizarre obsession with “illegitimate and legitimate” rape– a crime of violence– one might conclude that many of those on the right are becoming even more unhinged.
And just as they’re making all that noise about their “new and improved” party image.
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