Nine of 37 guns found by TSA agents on passengers attempting to board flights last week.
Nine of 37 guns found by TSA agents on passengers attempting to board flights last week.
A relatively quiet week, with just under 40 entries. It's happened before, but not very often. Despite the relative calm (at least in reported events), there were some truly remarkable accidents last week, including two tragic "thought there was an intruder" shootings that killed three people. The first, in Barboursville, WV, involved a man who, convinced that someone was breaking into his shed, shot a pair of men dead from the window of his home, with a scoped rifle, in the middle of the afternoon. The problem, though, was that they weren't breaking in, and it wasn't his shed. But other than that, the ground (though not his), was successfully stood. The two men were, in fact, the new owner of the adjacent property and his brother. And their skin was darker than his, too. The second such story comes from Franklin County, VA, where a woman, finding her front door unexpectedly open, retrieved a gun from the bedroom, became startled by movement in the house, and shot and killed her boyfriend, who had just returned earlier than expected and unannounced from a business trip.
Thirteen kids were among last week's GunFAIL victims, including five between the ages of 11 and 17 accidentally shot in a single incident in Milwaukee. The youngest victim of the week was one described only as a baby, accidentally shot to death by her father, as he sat on the couch with the rifle he'd just bought hours before.
In the less spectacular categories, 15 people accidentally shot themselves, four gun owners accidentally fired into their neighbors' homes (including one loaded gun cleaner in St. Mary's, WV, who accidentally shot his 15-year-old neighbor in the head that way), two police officers accidentally discharged their weapons while on duty, two gun owners practicing at the range were accidentally shot, two were shot in hunting accidents, and two accidentally fired guns they were cleaning, apparently while they were still loaded. In keeping with the theme, two people committing suicide with their guns accidentally shot or nearly shot people nearby with the same bullet. In one incident in Morgantown, WV, a young man shot himself to death at home, sending the bullet upstairs through the ceiling, and into the ankle of his father, Tony Barill, a state representative from, yes, West Virginia. A very rough week in West Virginia.
On that note, I'll wrap up and simply let you read the stories below the fold for yourselves.
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