Lilly Tomlin was right:

Lilly once noted, “No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.  And the NRA wants more and more people to be armed, everywhere, at all times?  Too many Americans have been watching too many Rambo movies and self identifying with Rambo, when, in truth, they’re actually Mr. Magoo. An armed Mr. Magoo, which is a very, very bad combination. And the odd thing is the people busy shooting themselves in the feet don't seem to understand what the basic problem is.  Excerpt from Reader Supported News (RSN)

5 People Shot at 3 Different Gun Shows on Gun Appreciation Day

By Adam Peck, ThinkProgress
22 January 13
f 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 three 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.
Gun Appreciation Day is the combined effort of dozens of far-right organizations who have been vocal opponents of gun control advocates' efforts to reduce the number of dangerous weapons on our streets and prevent them from ending up in the hands of people with criminal backgrounds or a history of mental illness. In response to a renewed push for sensible reforms of gun laws after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, groups like the National Rifle Association and the founders of Gun Appreciation Day have instead advocated for an increase in the number of guns in public places like elementary schools, arguing - falsely - that more guns will mean more protection for individuals.
But today's unfortunate accident, which took place at a safety check in surrounded by hundreds of people who presumably have at least some training on how to properly handle a dangerous weapon, undermines that case. Earlier this week, an armed security officer at a Michigan charter school accidentally left his gun in a restroom that is regularly used by students as young as five years old.
A representative from Political Media, the group responsible for organizing Gun Appreciation Day, was not immediately available for comment.
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.

On Another Note

President Obama's inaugural speech was rightly lauded on so many points, but one that I think got slight shrift was his reference to we, the people, being Citizens.  Citizens. That designation has gone under the radar for so long.  We've touted our "freedoms," our individuality, our rights, and bewailed our "moochers" and "takers," (while mooching and taking, I might add) but we have rarely discussed our duties as citizens, a contract we make with each other to be both beneficiaries of the riches of The Commons AND our responsibility and duty to see to the continued health of The Commons.  Citizens are adults who see to it their government acts responsibly in their names, citizens vote, citizens work to see that justice is done, that the community is ruled by law, not the mob, citizens strive to open up the bounties of The Commons to more people, not restrict it's bounty to only a few, citizens are involved in their country's civil life, in their community's life because citizens understand that their government is them, their country is theirs and they need to continue making it a more perfect union.