Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Continental Airlines

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It is my firm belief that whoever is in possession of a firearm "owns" that gun. It doesn't matter who owns the gun legally. If you have it, it's yours. The rule applies the...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Parents of Unnamed Six-Year-Old Boy

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"A 6-year-old boy is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in the face, Mason County Sheriff's deputies said." And so begins yet another tale of a negligent discharge resulting in a serious injury to...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unnamed Firearms Training Dude [Not Shown]

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Nothing focuses your powers of observation more than being around firearms. When there's a deadly weapon or forty in a room with multiple strangers milling around, you tend to get pretty good at sizing...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Officer Gonzalez

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"Details about what happened to two boys found shot to death with their father's handgun trickled out as sheriff's deputies tried to piece together the evidence," contracostatimes.com reports. "San Bernardino County sheriff's Sgt. Frank...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Calogero Scimea

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"A wedding photographer in Sicily was accidentally killed when he asked the prospective bride and groom to pose for a picture using hunting rifles as props - and one of them went off," reports nydailynews.com....

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: MSPALTEN

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg5_SA4cNbE Ever since 911, airline pilots have been isolated behind a locked door. Although Google is no help here, I'd bet dollars to small bags of salty snacks that this isolation has made airplane travel...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: DevilsAdversary34

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU52V3a6Mhg I think we've got something of a genre here: stupid people teaching stupid people how to shoot guns with only a passing mention of firearms safety (point it that way). OK, maybe the girl...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Ted Nugent

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFV6W-RA5AA When you think of Vietnam War protests, you probably think of hippies. Grass. LSD. Woodstock. Marches. Tear gas. Police beatings. The Kent State massacre. And no wonder: the peace movement of the late 60's...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: garykirk1964

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7GrSQ7F2vo Mr. Kirk has muzzle discipline issues, obviously . But first, one wonders about his racking style. When pumping a shotgun action, the best direction for the muzzle is forward, downrange. I'm not suggesting that Mr....

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Cedar Hill Mayor Rob Franke

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Our own James Montgomery has been blogging the murder/suicide case of Coppell Mayor Jayne Peters. The divine Mr. M is threatening to leave his air-conditioned videogame station to visit the Texas town and unearth...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Bradley A. Hammer [Not Shown]

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"Authorities identified an Allen Township man who died after being shot accidentally by his 7-year-old son," the Toledo Blade reports. "Bradley A. Hammer, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Detective Sgt....

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Shaun Rogers [Not Shown]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UniVIZ4gU8 An Ohio court has sentenced Cleveland Browns Defensive Tackle Shaun Rogers to a 12-month "diversion program." The judgement is a plea deal relating to Rogers' April arrest for carrying a loaded .45 in his carry-on....