Gun-nuts' holiday
Lewis DiuguidThe gun advocates had their holiday over the weekend, and it went off with a bang — literally.
Gun show accidents injured five people nationwide. Three people were hurt at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, N.C., The Associated Press reports. A shotgun went off accidentally. Shotguns can do a lot of damage.
In Indianapolis, a man wounded himself in the hand as he was loading his .45-caliber semi-automatic while leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife Show. That had to hurt.
At the Medina Gun Show in Ohio, a gun dealer was examining a semi-automatic handgun he had purchased when it went off with the bullet striking a friend of the dealer.
And what’s up with the seemingly lawless attitude of Johnson County, Kan., Sheriff Frank Denning, saying more “responsible people” in possession of firearms is a better way to prevent mass shootings than more gun control? Who’s to say who’s responsible with guns and who’s not especially after so many gun accidents over the weekend? Some cities in the state are permitting open carry of weapons. How stupid is that? What are they smoking and drinking in Kansas?
If the holiday for guns happens again next year in opposition to the holiday for the birthday for slain civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., let’s hope fewer accidents occur and fewer people get injured. As a person who believed in nonviolence, Dr. King would want it that way especially because a gun was used to assassinate him 45 years ago.
Dave Williams
4 months agoSo, name calling is an acceptable form of journalism. The Red Star does it again!
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
4 months agoPlease learn the difference between commentary and journalism, Dave.
Matt Henry
4 months agoMan, it must be nice to be so sure of your position that you don’t have to posit any real comment about it other than platitudes and single moments out of hundreds of thousands where humans display (gasp!) moments of imperfection.
You can pooh-pooh it all you want, but this column could easily be written about all the fools who were bitten by dogs they choose to own and hurt in cars they choose to drive. Guns exist; there is no turning back the clock and making them NOT exist. It boils down to LWD no “liking” guns, so only fools mess with them. Foolish logic.
George Hunsucker
Northland
4 months agoAnti-gun nuts keeping penning columns….
Ed Tomicich
4 months agoThese Editors have to go. When I lived in NY a few years ago I canceled my subscription to the anti-gun Journal News now famous for it’s gun permit map. I think I will do the same for the star. I left NY to come to Kansas to be with the people who think like me and understand and believe in the constitution. Thank God for people like Sheriff Denning. WE are the NRA, we are the people to interact with every day. WE fix your cars, fix your plumbing, electric,carpentry. We truck your goods to the store. We are your policemen, firemen, Doctors and Dentists. We have served in the military, we have offered our lives for the good of our country. WE have never sought to harm you, you have never felt threatened by being around us. We are the ones ready to protect you when evil comes knocking at your door.
Just like every other libtard, you interject the wrong words to describe things you do not agree with. Like “lawless” when it’s totally legal. See this link below to see all of the protection guns have offered. You will not see it on the national libtard media outlets. But it does make it to the local news, and it is collected here to prove how biased you and your “journalistic” media friends are. The Armed Citizen.
http://www.americanrifleman.org/BlogList.aspx?cid=25&id=21
Pages of guns saving life and limb that you won’t have the intellect to grasp.
Mark Hastert
4 months ago“Libtard, libtard libtard”
It’s always good to read insightful intelligent commentary….
George Hunsucker
Northland
4 months agoWe know hastert, we read yours everyday….
Matt Henry
4 months agoI hate to say I agree with Mark. It’s like a needle in my eye. But “libtard” used over and over doesn’t make your point stronger, only easier dismissed….