GunFAIL IV

Well, the shooting continues apace, so it's time for another installment of what's becoming a regular feature: the #GunFAIL series.

First, we'll catch up on some old business: stories that didn't make it into previous GunFAIL entries. (See GunFAIL III, Your next installment of GunFAIL News, The Week in GunFAIL News, and Today in GunFAIL News.)

For whatever reason (and there are many, some deeper than others), local news of shootings of any nature don't always break into the traditional media right away, and are sometimes even slower to appear in my online searches. Remember, for all the stories I'm turning up here, my only weapon in this is Google. In other words, all this stuff is happening in numbers great enough that anyone with a computer and Internet access could compile this information just as easily as I can. There's no special magic or professional investigative technique involved. And if there were, you can bet the numbers would likely be much higher.

At any rate, the result of relying on the sometimes slower-moving local media is that often, shooting stories don't get discovered until a week or two after they happened. And in order to give you a picture of the full volume of such stories, I simply add them to the next installment so you don't miss out on them, even though they may chronologically belong in a previous GunFAIL installment.

So with that, it's time to catch up on the news from the end of January, and begin with February. And it's already been a hell of a month.

Stick with us below the fold, for this week's outrageous GunFAIL news.