A National Joke That Ends With a Bang

By Dan Hagen

So this guy walks into a Washington state family fun center brandishing a rifle, parents panic and run away with their kids, the place goes into lockdown and he wonders why he was arrested. 

Meanwhile, a power-hungry wannabe cop is on trial for stalking, shooting and killing an unarmed teenage boy. An armed customer becomes frightened in a California chicken restaurant and shoots and kills two employees. A South Dakota man fell asleep holding a loaded handgun, and then shot himself when a relative turned on the porch light. Proving to his friends than the gun isn't loaded, a 15-year-old in Oklahoma put the barrel in his mouth and pulls the trigger. Blam!
All these things happened this 4th of July week. 
Every single damn day someone leaves a loaded gun lying around and lets one small child shoot and kill another. Locally, in a small, sleepy town where you couldn't even buy a beer until recently, a 51-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man were shot yesterday. The woman is dead.

I wonder if the NRA realizes that they have made the term "responsible gun owner" nothing but the punchline to a national sick joke?