Man tells son to lie about shooting sister, a tally of mass shootings since Newtown, and a letter from Starbucks saying Espresso's and guns don't mix.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A Wisconsin man is facing charges for allegedly telling his 6-year-old son, who had at least 3 years of firearms training, to lie after shooting his 4-year-old sister in the face with a shotgun. 

In late August, WKBT reported that Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the Town of Alma, where the 4-year-old girl had been struck in the side of the head with a shotgun blast. 

According to the Jackson Country Chronicle, authorities in Jackson said this week that 48-year-old father Fred B. Maphis had told his son to say that the shotgun had accidentally gone off when he dropped it. But the son later admitted that the father instructed him to lie because he had pointed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. 

The boy told authorities that his sister had asked him to aim the shotgun at her, but he had made the mistake of putting it too close to her ear.

 A sheriff’s office complaint said that the mother told investigators that the boy had been training with firearms since the age of 3. She said that he had his own .22 caliber rifle, but he was only allowed to shoot with adult supervision. The father insisted that he had just forgotten to unload and secure the shotgun.

You know I am certainly not an expert in gun safety but you would kind if think that lesson one might be, "Don't ever point on at your sister." I'm just saying. 

And the father encouraging his son to lie indicates that he probably should not be allowed to have children, much less guns.

In other gun violence related news HuffPo has put up a graphic concerning mass shootings that should chill the blood of EVERY American.

That is indefensible. And the fact that we are unable to address this problem like grownups is disgusting. The NRA is responsible for hundreds of deaths in this country, and I for one would like for them, and the gun manufacturers they serve, to be brought up on charges of aiding and abetting a criminal activity.

After all, corporations are people my friends.

And finally Starbucks has had enough of being used as the modern day stand in for the OK Corral,

Here is a portion of their open letter: 

Our company’s longstanding approach to “open carry” has been to follow local laws: we permit it in states where allowed and we prohibit it in states where these laws don’t exist. We have chosen this approach because we believe our store partners should not be put in the uncomfortable position of requiring customers to disarm or leave our stores. We believe that gun policy should be addressed by government and law enforcement—not by Starbucks and our store partners. 

Recently, however, we’ve seen the “open carry” debate become increasingly uncivil and, in some cases, even threatening. Pro-gun activists have used our stores as a political stage for media events misleadingly called “Starbucks Appreciation Days” that disingenuously portray Starbucks as a champion of “open carry.” To be clear: we do not want these events in our stores. Some anti-gun activists have also played a role in ratcheting up the rhetoric and friction, including soliciting and confronting our customers and partners. 

For these reasons, today we are respectfully requesting that customers no longer bring firearms into our stores or outdoor seating areas—even in states where “open carry” is permitted—unless they are authorized law enforcement personnel.

Okay by a show of hands who DIDN'T think this would be the result of all of those gun nuts walking into the Starbucks with assault rifles slung across their shoulder?

I am guessing that ONLY those gun nuts with assault rifles slung across their shoulders are not raising their hands. And therein lies the problem with gun nuts.

Before I close this post I would also like to address the tired old NRA and Fox News talking point that the Navy Shipyard shooters attack can be blamed on the violent video games that he played. (As voiced by newest Fox news blonde bimbo Elizabeth Hasselbeck here.)

No it cannot.

Violent video games are as omnipresent in every other developed country as they are here in the United States, however guns are not. Therefore THEIR citizens can spend all day being desensitized to gun violence and death, if you believe that is really the result, and yet their neighbors and co-workers can feel safe to work and live alongside them.

Fewer guns, fewer gun deaths. It's called "math."