Shocking statistic ‘o the week
by digby
You’d think Christmas week would be a slow week for GunFAIL incidents. But all that actually slowed down was the number of guns found in schools, since most schools were closed for the better part of the week, if not all week long. Instead, those kids were at home, in some cases, with nothing better to do than accidentally shoot one another, or get accidentally shot. In fact, I found fifteen kids who were accidentally shot last week. And in a bizarre, if not particularly significant twist, six of them were 14-year-olds. Shockingly, we also saw our record for the youngest GunFAIL victim shattered, when an infant of just 2 months of age was accidentally shot and killed in East Lampeter, PA. The other child victims of GunFAIL last week were aged 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17 and 17…
Also of special note from last week: the Pennsylvania man who decided to punctuate a domestic argument by pounding a rifle on the floor, which then discharged and shot his daughter, upstairs, and; the Colorado man who mistook his 14-year-old step-daughter for an intruder and shot her to death as she tried to sneak back into the house. But that was only the first of two GunFAILs in Colorado Springs for the week. It’s a relatively GunFAIL-y place, actually. These two incidents are their 13th and 14th appearances in our lists. But that’s over only 10 weekly lists. In other words, this is actually the third time Colorado Springs has appeared more than once inside of a single week’s list.
And that’s not all by a long shot. Read on to hear about all of this horrifying carnage (as well as the concealed carry fool who shot himself in the ass in Home Depot…)
And keep in mind that as David Waldman points out, a whole lot more guns were given out as stocking stuffers this year than were confiscated by Obama…
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