Chris from Baltimore posted the following comment to yesterday’s Gun Report: “More children are ‘slaughtered’ during circumcision in the U.S. than with assault rifles.” Chris, could you please provide the supporting data? We’re a tad skeptical.

Here is today’s sampling of gun violence.

—Joe Nocera

A 50-year-old man shot and killed himself during a gun-safety class at a Bellevue, Washington, gun range. Brian J. Parry is believed to have shot himself in the head with a pistol Sunday during a class at West Coat Armory as he stood in front of more than a dozen people.

Bellevue Patch

One person was killed in a shooting before 8:00 Thursday night in Fort Wayne, Ind. Demarcus Adams, 23, was in a vehicle parked on the southeast side when another vehicle pulled up next to him and someone fired multiple shots. A woman at the scene, Denise Trigg, said the victim was her son, and that he died in her arms. Trigg also said Adams was shot near the same area last month.

WANE

A triple shooting left one person dead and one in the hospital late Tuesday in Albuquerque, N.M. On a residential street near the Winrock Mall, a bloodied man began banging on doors around 11:30 p.m., asking neighbors to call the police. Police followed the victim’s trail of blood to a home, where they found a man shot to death in the kitchen. More blood led detectives to a nearby parking lot, where they found a woman in a car with another person bleeding. Police said they had few answers as to what led to the gunfire.

KOAT

A 17-year-old male in New Haven, Conn., accidentally discharged a gun Tuesday, shooting himself in the penis. The gun was in the man’s pants. He ran into a nearby school, where someone called 911. “We see that the vast majority of groin shots are accidental discharges,” a police spokesman said.

New Haven Register

A teen is dead following a shooting in the basement of a home in Galesburg, Ill., early Thursday. Isaiah Stevenson, 18, died as a result of a single gunshot. Police charged 20-year-old Cody Delacruz, who lived at the home, with manslaughter in connection with the shooting.

WQAD

A man screaming for his girlfriend and banging on apartment doors in Riverside, Calif., Wednesday night shot and wounded one man and fatally shot a blind man who was calling 911. Daniel John Jones, 44, entered the complex about 7:20 p.m., confronted Miles Conley and asked if he was having a relationship with his girlfriend. He then shot Conley in the leg with a handgun. James Weatherby, 57, had come outside of his apartment to call 911 when Jones shot him in the chest. An unemployed accountant, Jones was later arrested on a freeway off ramp a few miles away.

The Press-Enterprise

A 4-year-old child was accidentally shot in Apex, N.C., Thursday afternoon. The boy and his three-year-old brother were playing in the car when they opened the glove compartment and discovered a handgun. The gun discharged and he was shot in the leg. Both the gun and car belonged to their older sister’s boyfriend, neighbors said. His injuries are non-life threatening.

WTVD

A man is being held on $100,000 bail after he admitted to chasing and firing shots at a man he found inside his car early Thursday in Bay Point, Calif. 39-year-old Charles Settle said that as he approached his car he noticed an unknown man inside the back seat. When the man got out of the car and pedaled away on his bike, Settles retrieved a handgun and chased him, firing several rounds at him. The man on the bike has not been located, and area hospitals were notified.

Mercury News

A 28-year-old Kansas City woman allegedly shot and wounded an ex-boyfriend who was trying to take her pit bull puppy. A 34-year-old man barged inside Nicole Morris’s home about 2:20 a.m. Thursday demanding the dog. Morris asked her 11-year-old daughter to bring her a specific pair of socks, and the girl complied. Inside the socks was a gun, and Morris her ex in the leg. Her 6-year-old son also witnessed the shooting. Morris was charged with domestic assault and armed criminal action.

Kansas City Star

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 2,693 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.