A Tuesday morning roundup of gun violence in America.

I had an article or two saved to write about this morning, but they just kept multiplying. (Much like my attempt to write a post on the Bundy ranch situation on Sunday.)

So here are a few, but certainly not all, of the results of the 2nd Amendment keeping us free in America.

First the wrong place right bullet scenario:

A 26-year-old San Francisco man was shot to death early Saturday when he went to a unit on the wrong floor of his apartment building after returning home from a night out. Stephen Guillermo had been out drinking with friends, his family said, and apparently pressed the wrong floor number on the elevator of the building in the 900 block of Mission Street in the South of Market area. 

He got off on the third floor instead of the fifth floor, where he lived with his brother and sister, and went to the unit in the same location in the building as his home two stories above. 

Guillermo was shot at 1:40 a.m. inside the third floor unit of a 68-year-old man, Amisi Sudi Kachepa, who later surrendered to police and was arrested in the shooting.

This of course happens with some frequency around the country. In many cases the police are called and the drunken man is removed without incident. But in others there is a gun.

The there is the "I was only trying to frighten my son, but the gun just went off" scenario: 

An Alabama man accidentally shot and killed his teenage son while trying to scare the boy. 

Sexton Adams told police his 17-year-old son was acting in a bizarre and angry manner when he returned about 2 a.m. Friday to their McIntosh home. 

Adams said he felt threatened by his son’s unusual behavior and took out his .38-caliber handgun to scare the boy. 

But he said the gun fired accidentally and shot his son, Darius Adams, who was pronounced dead a short time later. 

“He cocked the pistol and in the process, according to him, the pistol went off,” said Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer. “You know, it’s just a very tragic thing. The man killed his own son. It just doesn’t get much worse than that.”

Gun advocates will respond to stories like this by saying that responsible gun owners would never point a loaded weapon at anybody who they had no intention of shooting, as if all of the guns in America are in the hands of responsible gun owners and this is just a tragic, unforeseen circumstance.

No they aren't, and sadly no it isn't. 



(By the way the police are still trying to determine why the boy was acting erratically as if THAT might provide a clue as to why he died.)

The "Let's look at my gun collection, oh damn I just shot my nephew" scenario:  

An 11-year old boy, looking at guns with his cousin and uncle, was shot and killed in Pike County Saturday afternoon. His uncle has been charged with criminal homicide. Chad Olm, 34, has a safe in his room with a keypad lock, where he stores four guns. 

According to police records, this is what Chad Olm said happened: 

Olm was in his bedroom with his son and his nephew, both age 11. The boys asked to see his guns so he opened his security safe. 

Olm told police that he does not leave his guns loaded. 

He opened the case and showed them his .357 Magnum revolver, which had been wrapped in a sleeve. 

He handed it to his nephew and then to his son. They thought it was cool because it had a big scope on it. They wanted to pull the trigger and he let them, the police report said. 

Next, he took out a .22 revolver. He removed the pin and cylinder and then put it back together again and handed it to his nephew and then to his son. 

Then Olm showed the boys a 9 mm pistol that had been stored in a case, and let each boy hold it. 

Last, he took out a Glock 27 .40-caliber handgun that has a laser sight. Olm said there was no magazine in it, but he did not work the action to check or clear it. 

He was holding the pistol and showing the boys the laser on the ceiling and the wall. 

Then, Olm pointed the laser at his nephew. 

One of the boys (Olm could not recollect which one, according to court papers) said: “Look, you have a red dot on your forehead.” 

His nephew reached out for the gun and Olm pulled the trigger. 

The gun went off.

"He does not leave his guns loaded." One of the most famous, of the famous last words.

Gee who would have thought that pointing a gun at your nephew's head would cost him his life?

And finally the "Son raised as a sovereign citizen murders State Troopers" scenario. Alaska version:  

A sovereign citizen shot and killed two Alaska state troopers last week during an argument over a $150 couch, authorities said. Nathanial Kangas is accused of killing Trooper Sgt. Patrick “Scott” Johnson and Trooper Gabriel Rich as they attempted to arrest the suspect’s father. 

As the troopers tried to take Arvin Kangas into custody Thursday afternoon, his son went inside their house to retrieve an assault rifle, police said. 

The 19-year-old Nathaniel Kangas fired the weapon seven times at close range into the troopers’ backs, said a police officer who was present during the arrest attempt. 

Police said the younger Kangas immediately dropped his weapon and apologized, saying he’d opened fire because the troopers were wrestling with his father. 

A friend of the Kangas family said the father and son were members, along with himself, of “The Athabascan Nation,” which considers Alaska law enforcement to be a violation of Native Alaska sovereignty. 

“We haven’t ever been conquered and we ain’t going to feel like we’re conquered,” said family friend Gary Albert.

The father had already brandished a shotgun at a Village Police Officer, which prompted the call to the Troopers.

There are a number of native people up here who do not recognize the authority of the police or state troopers, however it only occasionally results in a loss of life.

So there you have it folks. Just more reminders of how the 2nd Amendment is keeping us safe from tyranny.