Go ahead and look, you know you want to.  The others tasered are Jason Acuna (wee man from Jackass) and LaToya Jackson, all players on the reality show Armed and Famous.  I almost wish they had shown Jack Osbourne.

AndrewsDad, fellow NW Blogger, has a great post at NW Bloggers about the gun show loophole myth.

The Commentaters on KVI am 570 discussed this today, in the wake of the recent shooting at a Tacoma High School, and it is sure to be repeated ad naseum how we need stricter control of guns to curb this sort of senseless violence.  One of the hot button issues often reported (incorrectly as you will see) that gunshows are terrible black pit allowing criminals to bypass background checks and obtain weapons with which to committ their crimes.

So here is the truth of the gun show myth.

Originally posted at AndrewsDad on Oct. 24th 2006 

The Seattle P.I. had an article about Washington Ceasefire planting bulbs at Greenlake to commemorate the 600 victims of gun violence in Washington State this year.  It seems odd to me that a group can just go plant bulbs at a city park and I have a question into the Seattle Parks department asking about that but that is a post for another day.  What Washington Cease Fire does not say and what the "reporter", Neil Modie, does not seem interested in knowing is the fact that about 400 of those 600 deaths were suicides.

Now Seattle police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, whose department issued handgun was stolen out of his car earlier this year was in attendance.

In 2005, two violent gun crimes were reported for every 1,000 people nationwide, compared with 1.4 in 2004, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Kerlikowske said it was the "No. 1 issue" at a national meeting of local law enforcement leaders he attended in Washington, D.C., last month.

The reasons? Kerlikowske said criminologists say that for one thing, "we are awash in firearms." Unlike a number of other states, efforts to close Washington’s gun-show loophole have been blocked in the Legislature.

To understand the "gun show loophole", you first must know what it is.  The gun show loophole specifically means when a non gun dealer, a private citizen, sells a gun to another private citizen at a gun show, just as they would if they had taken out a classified ad in a newspaper, a background check is not required.  From Washington Ceasefire’s own press release: