Your stupid gun stories of the day.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

Alaska State Troopers say a Nikiski man is dead after shooting himself while playing Russian Roulette Sunday afternoon. 

In an online dispatch, troopers said they were called to a home in Sterling shortly after 4:30 p.m. Sunday where residents told them that 31-year-old John Rutherford had been playing Russian Roulette on the couch there when he fatally shot himself. 

The incident took place in front of Rutherford’s fiancée, troopers said.

The article does not specify that alcohol was involved but this is Alaska, so yeah, alcohol was probably involved. 

And just in case you thought that all this guy needed was some instruction on gun safety, that does not necessarily insure the safe handling of a gun either.

Courtesy of  Florida's 10TV: 

A man accidentally shot himself during a gun safety class at an Orlando pawn shop. Orange County Sheriff's officials did not identify the 23-year-old victim but said the incident happened Saturday at the Instant Replay Pawn Shop and Shooting Range. The Orlando Sentinel reports the bullet grazed his leg.

And hey just in case you thought that the training police received made them more responsible, I beg to differ.

Courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch:  

A Columbus police officer accidentally wounded a 4-year-old girl in Whitehall on Friday when he fired at a charging dog, police said. 

A neighbor and the girl’s uncle identified her as Ava Ellis, who was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where police said she was in stable condition. 

The officer was at the doorway when a dog charged at him, Alex-Bouzounis said. 

The officer fired once, missing the animal but striking the girl in the right leg. It was unclear whether the girl was hit directly or by a ricochet. The officer has not been identified.

Gee I wonder if the dog was black?

So there you have it, three completely unrelated incidents with individual circumstances, and one common denominator.

But remember what the NRA tells us; guns keep us safe, and more guns keep us safer.