Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Sandy Tucker

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OK, so who "owns" a gun? The person who bought it, obviously. Only maybe not. At the risk of going all Eddy the Eagle (the NRA character, not the UK ski jumper), we must...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Cleveland Browns DT Shaun Rogers

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Now that Washington Wizards' NBA b-baller Gilbert Arenas is serving time for felony gun possession---oh wait. Sorry. Suspended sentence. Which could well become the de facto standard for professional athletes packing heat. Well, I...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unnamed Seattle Apartment Dweller

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Someone once told me that being assertive means understanding that your needs are just as important as anyone else's. And then she hit me. True story. When it comes to gun safety, people tend...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Mark David Lassila

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Many gun control advocates see gun ownership as a Catch-22. Guns are too dangerous for mentally unstable people. Anyone who wants a gun is mentally unstable. Get yourself out of THAT one. Meanwhile, I...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unidentified Blacks Creek Teen

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"The boy told deputies he was walking and then tripped," nwcn.com reports. "As the boy began to fall, he said he accidentally discharged the .22 pistol he was carrying. The father was...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unidentified Gun Sex Guy

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NP? The man, 25, told police at the scene that he rubbed the loaded handgun all over his girlfriend's body before getting intimate after he consumed a six-pack of beer at a party...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Baltimore Policeman Jamar Lloyd Barnes

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A lot of people assume cops are gun people. Wrong. I once met a police officer who couldn't tell me what kind of bullet fed his firearm. No really. He tried to fob me...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of 2004

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This is going back a ways, but the Barnes story reminded me of a case from 2004. I somehow read or heard a report that an off-duty officer had shot someone in a road-rage...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Placer County Sheriff’s Deputy Ken Skogen

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Placer County Sheriff's Deputy Ken Skogen's three-year-old daughter is dead after accidentally shooting herself with her father's gun. Investigators declined to provide specifics, save the fact that the gun involved was not Skogen's...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: DeWayne Williams

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There are two views of what happened the night that DeWayne Williams shot and killed a man. According to Assistant Oakland County prosecutor Jason Pernick, Williams is a cold-blooded murder, "a man with...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Ricky Brunelle [Not Shown]

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In terms of gun safety, hunting is a dangerous business. IGOTD has cited numerous examples of hunters who accidentally discharged their firearm, forgetting to keep their gun unloaded and/or their barrel pointed in a...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Charles Heverly

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Regular readers of this website will both know that we don't hold the police to any higher gun safety standard than anyone else who owns a firearm. Not pointing your gun at people you...