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Robb

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Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:04 AM Sep 2013

New fall tradition: Football games dedicated to players killed in shooting accidents





First, this week saw two football games dedicated to players recently killed in accidental shootings: this time in Bowie, TX and Carlsbad, NM. The second tradition: hunting accidents. Last weekend was the first weekend of dove hunting season in several states, and correspondingly, I found five hunting-related accidents that wounded six people, including a 10-year-old girl.

In what has become routine gun accident news, this week's compilation includes six gun cleaning accidents, two "home invasion" shootings, three accidents involving law enforcement officers, and one involving an active member of the armed forces.

This week's child victims of GunFAIL were aged 2 months, 8 months, 8, 10, 12, 14, 14, 16 and 16.

And in related news, itself quickly moving from fall tradition to routine weekly count, the latest Guns Found in Schools list: Dunkerton, IA; Des Moines, IA; Sumter, SC; Albuquerque, NM; Memphis, TN, and; Douglasville, GA....

Read More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/08/1235360/-GunFAIL-XXXIV
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