If the gun advocates behind this year’s inaugural Gun Appreciation
Day had hoped to use the day’s festivities to build support for their
anti-regulation platform, they are going to have to wait another year.
Emergency personnel had to be called to the scene of the Dixie Gun
and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina after a gun accidentally
discharged and shot two people
at the show’s safety check-in booth just after 1 pm. Both victims were
transported to an area hospital, and the Raleigh Fire Department
announced that the show would be closed for the rest of the day.
Responsible!
Two similar incidents occurred at entirely separate gun shows in the
Midwest, one in the Cleveland suburb of Medina, Ohio and the other at
the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana. In Ohio, the local ABC
affiliate reports that one individual was brought to a hospital by EMS, and in Indiana Channel 8 WISH says
that an individual shot himself in the hand while trying to reload his
gun in the show parking lot. That brings the tally to 4 victims of gun
violence so far at three different gun shows during the country’s first
Gun Appreciation Day.
Super responsible!
CNN is reporting
that three people were injured at the gun show in Raleigh, not two as
originally reported. All were victims of a shotgun that fired while the
owner was removing it from a case.
You get the picture. So at least five people were injured at three separate WOOHOO GUNS ARE AWESOME rallies. And let's remember, these were organized specifically to counter that awful, heartless National Day of Service for Dr. King's birthday that wingers despise so much.
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