dagblog - Comments for "Three people injured after 12-gauge shotgun goes off at NC gun show"

I'm sure the NRA response

Verified Atheist — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:29:33 +0000

In reply to http://www.foxnews.com/us/201

I'm sure the NRA response would be that if those 2 adults and 3 children had guns of their own, they could've stopped the teenager earlier.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/201

acanuck — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:08:35 +0000

In reply to Getting a gun to defend your

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/20/teenage-gunman-kills-5-in-new-mexic...

Getting a gun to defend your

acanuck — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:00:01 +0000

In reply to My cousin was in a local

Getting a gun to defend your home is a bad bet statistically. If that gun ever kills anyone, it will not be an armed intruder but you or a family member. Most likely, someone will use it to commit suicide, but accidents and domestic disputes also take their toll. Successfully repelling a home invasion occurs only in movies.

My cousin was in a local

Verified Atheist — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:05:20 +0000

In reply to Three people injured after 12-gauge shotgun goes off at NC gun show

My cousin was in a local Petsmart when a guy standing near her was injured by his gun going off. She was first to render first aid and her the guy's son saying, "I wish he'd never bought that gun." My cousin posted this on her FB page and I particularly liked this comment: "If good people with guns are supposed to protect us from bad people with guns, what protects us from stupid people with guns?"

?Firearms instructor? hired

ocean-kat — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:55:53 +0000

In reply to Three people injured after 12-gauge shotgun goes off at NC gun show

‘Firearms instructor’ hired as school guard leaves handgun in student bathroom

A prosecutor in Lapeer, Michigan says, “No harm, no foul,” after a charter school took the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) advice and hired a armed security guard who promptly left his handgun unattended in a student bathroom.

Chatfield School co-directors Matt Young and Bill Kraly announced last week that they had hired retired Lapeer County Sheriff’s Dept. firearms instructor Clark Arnold as a security guard in response to the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

“It’s a tremendous asset to the safety of our students,” Young told WNEM in a report that aired on Tuesday.

But by Wednesday, the school had admitted to The Flint Journal that the retired firearms instructor had made a “made a breach in security protocol” and left his unloaded handgun unattended in the school restroom “for a few moments.”