Gun Appreciation Day Celebrated With Shootings at Gun Shows in North Carolina and Ohio (Update)

[RetroGamer1971]

Three people were wounded Saturday afternoon after an accidental shooting at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina. The incident apparently occurred at a security check point when the owner of a 12-gauge shotgun was asked to remove his gun from its case. Somehow, the gun discharged, shooting two people in the hand and one in the right torso.
Meanwhile, in an entirely unrelated incident, a man at the Medina County Gun Show was shot and injured later Saturday afternoon.

As the Daily Intelligencer notes, today is both Gun Appreciation Day and Guns Across America. What a perfect way to celebrate!

UPDATE: And there was another shooting. A man shot himself in the hand while loading his gun outside the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife Show gun show in Indianapolis.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. So North Carolina wins the Idjit Gunnie Award?

Congratulations to the runners-up across America.

[SheilaT]

2. How appropriate.

Too bad it won't make anyone out there decide that maybe all these guns are a bad idea.

But as long as these things happen to the gun apologists, I'm fine with it.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

3. I Seem To Remember Quite A Few Very Condescending Replies...........

.............from gun nuts informing us that guns don't just "go off" on their own anymore. And they were ALL worded like, "Oh, you poor, uninformed, little lamb! How could you BE so naive! Guns don't EVER just go off on their own anymore. They ONLY go off when a person pulls the trigger. And since a gun can't pull its own trigger, guns don't kill people. Har har har."

[grahamhgreen]

4. More guns in schools = more kids shot, IMHO.