Fun With Guns: The Guns, Guns, Guns, and God Edition
Let’s start out with an 18 year old high school student in Saluda, Virginia, who came to school with an armory in the trunk of his car.
To make matters even more fun …
… perhaps the most unnerving thing is that police are working under the assumption that they haven’t even found all the weapons. Much of the ammunition found in his car does not match the guns he was caught with.
Thankfully, the guns were found before anyone got hurt.
And then there’s the I Love Jesus Gun Brigade.
In Memphis, a 4 year old girl was shot in the face by her older brother using their grandmother’s gun.
Boylan says her grandsons found the weapon in her bed.
“I got up to go to church and I forgot to put it up. They came over, and I just forgot.”
The girl is still in the hospital undergoing several surgeries to her jaw.
Well done, NRA.
Thanks to Larry and Jeff for the heads up.
Grandma sleeps with a gun. What a great country song that’ll make!
1Doesn’t say much for Virginia or Tennessee, does it?
2Grandma got run over by a handgun? Next question: will anyone with any kind of real clout decide that grandma can’t take care of herself let alone a weapon and an innocent child and do something about that, such as grandma gets separated from the weapon and deposited in what the Brits call “care”.
3Washington Post editorial today points out that the VA GOP-dominated legislature is spitting on gun control laws that most Virginians want. The new Dem Governor McAuliffe has proposed that private dealers at gun shows do background checks on buyers (state cops there could them on the spot), and that guns be kept out of the hands of stalkers, domestic abusers, sexual batterers, and anyone convicted at least twice of assault and battery. He also wants back the law, trashed in 2012, limiting buyers to one handgun a month.
In polls, 71% of Virginians wanted the one-gun-a-month limit, and 90% wanted the gun-show background checks.
But the VA legislature is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NRA, which has its HQ just off I-66, so expect them to keep pissing on the wishes of most everybody else in the state.
And then they’ll say gun laws in DC don’t work, as if nobody can walk across the bridge and buy a load of guns in VA.
4He’s got clips for a Mac-10 or an Uzi and what looks like clips for an AK-47 and neither of those guns are shown. Yikes!
5EPO is spot on. Too many magazines displayed.
6Questions remain in my mind aboot this little spud.
Yeah, I always check guns and leave them out before going to church. Makes the finders holey.
7Why did she have a gun in her bed?
8And why didn’t she take it with her to church?
9@9: She didn’t take it to church because the Church “Shoot off” wasn’t scheduled until the following Sunday.
10So the grandma’s daughter was killed by a gun yet she leaves a gun, with the safety off and bullets in it, just laying around in the open. She sounds like she’s more a danger to herself and others than her imagined danger from others. How unbelievably stupid.
I wonder if the NRA is planning on giving that kid a discount coupon for his next gun purchase or is his stash not large enough yet to be given a volume discount. The NRA’s motto should be ‘What Would Jesus Shoot’.
11@Rhea: yeah, funny thing about states with strict laws next to states with fewer regulations regarding ownership of an item. Remember how the NRA always mock people who say that looser gun regulations in surrounding areas undermines the effectiveness of stronger gun control laws? They change their tune if the ownership is for something other than guns:
So, if Nebraska and Oklahoma win their lawsuit, can California use it as precedent to sue Nevada over its lax gun control laws?
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