And on Gun Appreciation Day, no less.
Emergency personnel had to be called to the scene of the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina after a gun accidentally discharged and shot [three] people at the show’s safety check-in booth just after 1 pm. Both victims were transported to an area hospital, and the Raleigh Fire Department announced that the show would be closed for the rest of the day.
There's more...
Two similar incidents occurred at entirely separate gun shows in the Midwest, one in the Cleveland suburb of Medina, Ohio and the other at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana. In Ohio, the local ABC affiliate reports that one individual was brought to a hospital by EMS, and in Indiana Channel 8 WISH says that an individual shot himself in the hand while trying to reload his gun in the show parking lot.
Law-abiding gun owners I'm sure. Yep, somehow they're allowed to not only sell guns without background checks at gun shows, but they're allowed to load their guns with live ammo. Smart.
But since "people kill people," and guns don't have anything to do with it, would the same thing have happened at a comic convention?