Five of 44 guns discovered by TSA at airports around the country this week.

Five of 44 guns discovered by TSA at airports around the country this week.

It's Back-to-School time! Many areas of the country saw their kids back in school during this past week, while elsewhere, students will be returning over the next two weeks. So it's only fitting to note the two particular kinds of GunFAIL that coincide with the season. First, there's the old gun-in-school problem. We had eight of those in primary and secondary schools around the country. Specifically in St. Louis and Ferguson, MO Sandy Springs and Atlanta, GA Winston-Salem, NC , and; Spring Hill, KS . From the post-secondary world, we have the story of the Texas Tech students who thought it would be fun to fire guns off the balcony of their off-campus apartment. Let college kids bring their guns to school? Sure. Why not?

The second kind of seasonal GunFAIL demonstrated this week: the cancellation of classes and/or athletic events due to the shooting death of a local student. We saw that one this week in Drain, OR, and last week in New Boston, TX. It's worth noting, however, that such cancellations don't occur for every accidental shooting. They tend to happen when it's a member of the football team who gets shot. Doubly so when they're accidentally shot by another member of the football team.

In other GunFAIL headlines, there was the now-famous story of the Connecticut man who, while lying in wait for a pesky raccoon, sneezed, fell off his chair, and shot himself in the leg. And the baffling story of the accidental shooting at the "Little Buckaroos Reading Roundup" event, hosted by the Lodi, CA SWAT team. There's just so much to wonder about in that one! The York, SC school resource officer responsible for our second on-campus security guard accidental discharge of the new school year. And of course, the Anchorage, AK GunFAIL two-fer, in which two Responsible Gun OwnersTM shot themselves in the leg, in succession, with the same gun.

The more routine news: three accidents while cleaning loaded guns; two "home invasion" shootings; three GunFAILs involving four cops (in one incident, two drunk cops shot at one another in a fight over loud music at a campground); one gun range accident, and; two "intruders" who turned out to be family members.

The kids of GunFAIL this week were mercifully few, aged 3, 4, 4, 16 and 16. And once again, our count includes a 4-year-old girl accidentally shot by her 6-year-old brother.