Fifteen of the 53 guns discovered by TSA agents at airports across the country, during the week of Feb. 12-18, 2016.

It’s true that we’re still a bit behind in catching up with GunFAIL incidents. But does it really matter, when any longtime reader can tell you that these are all just basically the same stories over and over again? Now, that might lead you to ask why I bother continuing with these reports, but to me, a lot of the story is in the fact that people keep making the same basic mistakes over and over again, almost predictably and at a nearly constant rate.

So it shouldn’t surprise you that although this week’s compilation does not cover the week immediately past, during which Patrice Price was shot and killed by her son in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it nonetheless includes a report of a toddler getting hold of an unsecured gun in the family car, and shooting his mother with it. Because that’s actually the kind of thing that happens every few weeks. Keep in mind that we’re talking about February 20, a full two months ago, and two and a half weeks before Jamie Gilt was shot by her son in Putnam County, Florida.

In other repeating news, we also have an incident in which a 20-year-old man accidentally discharged a gun during a FaceTime video call, killing his 17-year-old friend on February 19. That came just two months since the December death of a Miami man who accidentally shot and killed himself under similar circumstances. And there are just too many incidents to list that fit the pattern of this week’s bathroom GunFAIL.

Our title story this week comes, as is often the case, from Florida. Knowing that obeying gun-free zone signage is for suckers, a dad who surely abides by the good kinds of laws decided to walk his daughter to school with a gun in the pocket of his shorts. Holsters, as we know, are for the kinds of eggheads and safety nerds who would probably be the type to notice things like gun-sized holes in their shorts pockets. Losers! Anyway, for unknown reasons, this dad apparently had no nerve sensitivity in the bodily area around which shorts pockets are generally found, so when his gun fell out of his pocket and onto the ground in the school yard, he took no notice of it. But another parent did. Problem solved, right? No. The custodian who came to retrieve the gun apparently thought a good way to see if it was a real gun or just a pellet gun would be to take it over to the side of the school, away from the kids but next to the giant fuel tanks, and pull the trigger. An all-around good showing for the Gunshine State that day.

I’ll wind things up with this gentle reminder, even though many of you who hate-read GunFAIL don’t need reminding: not all gun enthusiasts are rabid conservatives. There are, after all, many reasons to want to keep a gun around. And even though we like to think that maybe our liberal-leaning, gun-owning friends are smart enough to avoid most of the truly stupid kinds of accidents, if they’re spending lots of time around dangerous toys tools, some number of them are bound to catch a bullet sooner or later. And that’s what happened to Tennessee marriage equality hero Gwen Schablik. Gwen’s even made the pages of Daily Kos before for her activism and leadership. She seems to have recovered and is back in the game as an activist and LGBT community leader, but even making the smart choice to train at a professional facility didn’t keep her entirely out of harm’s way, as she was struck in the back of the head by a ricocheted bullet while shooting at a Knoxville gun range.

Anyway, there’s plenty more where those came from, all to be found below the fold.