This week's GunFAIL compilation is illustrated by video of one of the incidents listed below. It's cell phone video captured by a witness to a road rage incident in which the man seen approaching the pick-up truck and punching the driver allegedly followed the vehicle he claimed cut him off and "tried to run him off the road" for 25 miles over 40 minutes, to the driver's home, according to various reports.

This crystallizes so many of the issues surrounding gun ownership, including some of those posited in this post in The Guardian's science blog. It's just surmise, but I'm betting this incident doesn't go down exactly the same way without ready access to the back-up of the gun. Though it certainly could be the case that this guy will just always think he can fight like a teenager. But let me also point out that if the kids had really been thugs, they had every opportunity to punch the Mrs. in the face and just snatch that gun away for themselves. Stupid play, all around, from Responsible Gun Family.

Also among our compilation, the story of the Utah gun safety instructor who had his AR-15 stolen. Of course, everyone knows that you can adequately secure an assault rifle by putting a blanket over it, in the back seat of your car. Because lockers are tyranny!

One other note worth mentioning is the discovery of a new category of GunFAIL: "forgetting" all about your gun until the metal detector or x-ray machine at the airport or courthouse reminds you that you were carrying that thing which you had said the day before could only be taken from your cold, dead hands. Seems about four of us each day, or about 1,500 per year, are FAIL-ing in this manner. I might have to put these in a separate report, as it's possible they'll pretty quickly consume this one, if enough such incidents make the news.

Aside from those notes, this week's compilation is pretty routine. Four people who shared their Liberty Projectiles with neighbors or those on the other side of walls, six FAILs involving cops or security guards, four FAILs surrounding fistfights and/or arguments gone bad, four people who forgot entirely that they had guns at all, one "intruder" who turned out to be a family member, four who were cleaning loaded weapons, four concealed carriers who shot themselves, and two who lied to the cops and claimed someone else shot them. Nine of these incidents involved minors.

Below the fold, this week's dishonor roll.