[LOLGUNS] 5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows

marens · Apprentice Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 172

5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows On Gun Appreciation Day

If the gun advocates behind this year’s inaugural Gun Appreciation Day had hoped to use the day’s festivities to build support for their anti-regulation platform, they are going to have to wait another year.

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.

Gun Appreciation Day is the combined effort of dozens of far-right organizations who have been vocal opponents of gun control advocates’ efforts to reduce the number of dangerous weapons on our streets and prevent them from ending up in the hands of people with criminal backgrounds or a history of mental illness. In response to a renewed push for sensible reforms of gun laws after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, groups like the National Rifle Association and the founders of Gun Appreciation Day have instead advocated for an increase in the number of guns in public places like elementary schools, arguing — falsely — that more guns will mean more protection for individuals.

But today’s unfortunate accident, which took place at a safety check in surrounded by hundreds of people who presumably have at least some training on how to properly handle a dangerous weapon, undermines that case. Earlier this week, an armed security officer at a Michigan charter school accidentally left his gun in a restroom that is regularly used by students as young as five years old.

A representative from Political Media, the group responsible for organizing Gun Appreciation Day, was not immediately available for comment.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/19/1473881/two-people-accidentally-shot-at-a-gun-show-safety-checkpoint-on-gun-appreciation-day/?mobile=nc

Could be an article from the onion, though.
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McGruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 145

Sometimes ROFLMAO just isn't enough to express what you're really feeling.

sikpuppy · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:00 pm Post subject:

Should be renamed "Bullet Acceptance Day".

Old School · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:03 pm Post subject:

Meanwhile in Chicago, a handful of teenage black kids are shot dead by other teenage black kids with handguns.
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sikpuppy · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:11 pm Post subject:

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sikpuppy · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:35 pm Post subject:

They used to have these enormous impact sprinklers here, for irrigating grass verges near main roads. As kids we used to shoot them at each other on hot days until chased off by council rangers. Is that what it's like to have guns as kids?

pjp · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject:

lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't need civil liberties.
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wildhorse · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:06 pm Post subject:

The NRA (USA) should open throughout the USA lots of shooting ranges for kids, operated by kids. No adults admitted, because of likely paedophile infiltration.

wswartzendruber · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject:

First, let's start with a less-biased news source: CNN Article

Second, let's not laugh at the gun, let's laugh at the person controlling it. You can't fix stupid. And to be honest, when you have this many gun shows at once, you're going to have accidents.

Third, twenty-seven people died yesterday in the U.S. from alcohol-related car accidents. I still say it's more efficient to ban booze.

pjp · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:33 pm Post subject:

McGruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 145

wildhorse · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:02 pm Post subject:

Jesus

big dave · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:18 pm Post subject:

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782

24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?

you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again?

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Old School · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:24 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:26 pm Post subject:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-G0-ChCCnKnw/UPvAlcSSeTI/AAAAAAAAHfM/ngW7_vO_xtc/s482/47D7zGq.png

big dave · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:33 pm Post subject:

Old School · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:53 pm Post subject:

big dave · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject:

wswartzendruber · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:32 am Post subject:

McGruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 145

So what was your point?