Man threatens host of kid’s birthday party with a gun.

By , on 7 June, 2011
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I generally don’t have a problem with gun ownership — most gun owners seem to be responsible and considerate — but this guy isn’t one of those people:

According to a police affidavit, Hayes became upset and began yelling at the victim because “Y’all didn’t save my kids no damn ice cream and cake.”

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Four-year-old boy given shotgun shell to play with shoots his mother.

By , on 28 October, 2010

Sometimes you have to wonder how we’ve survived this long as a species:

Four-Year-Old Boy Shoots Mother With Shotgun – Seattle News – The Daily Weekly.

A 23-year-old Kitsap woman was taken to the hospital yesterday with non-life-threatening injuries after her four-year-old son shot her in the side with a semiautomatic shotgun.

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Kid suspended for drawing a laser gun.

By , on 22 August, 2007

It used to be you had to bring an actual gun to school in order to be suspended for it. These days all you have to do is draw something that looks like it could be a gun and the chances are good your school will suspend you:

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