http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/03/chris-kyle-navy-seal-dead/1887327/

Author of American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History is shot and killed at a igun range! Supposedly the safest place because of all the, you know, guns.

http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/the-gun-report-february-2-2013/

A blog post showing just how pedestrian gun violence is in America. It includes these gems.

A man was walking along the side of the road in southwest Houston Friday morning when he was gunned down.

Michael Wayne Kearins, 17, and Christopher Thomas Cousins, 18, both of Harewood Road in Edgewood, Md., shot each other during a confrontation Thursday night. Kearins was transported to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead….

Finally, this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/dangerous-gun-myths.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

…But there is a more fundamental problem with the idea that guns actually protect the hearth and home. Guns rarely get used that way. In the 1990s, a team headed by Arthur Kellermann of Emory University looked at all injuries involving guns kept in the home in Memphis, Seattle and Galveston, Tex. They found that these weapons were fired far more often in accidents, criminal assaults, homicides or suicide attempts than in self-defense. For every instance in which a gun in the home was shot in self-defense, there were seven criminal assaults or homicides, four accidental shootings, and 11 attempted or successful suicides. …