It's never funny when someone shoots himself with a gun, but if ever there was a case in which we might have to stifle a chuckle at least, it's this one from Florida. There at Jupiter Lanes a bowler managed to shoot himself in the leg while bowling.

According to WPBF, it was a complete accident. One minute he was picking up his ball and swinging it back to make a strike, and the next his gun went off. Other bowlers were understandably terrified when they heard the shot.

As far as gun violence and terrorism go, this past year may have been one of the most harrowing and devastating in recent memory. Not that Hollywood cares. While fretting that Fifty Shades of Grey won't get enough play at the box office if it isn't R-rated (aka devoid of graphic sex), they're content to keep churning out flicks filled with violence or that are being promoted with violent imagery. Though, we don't have just Hollywood to blame. Consider the ridiculously moronic move on the part of a Missouri movie theater, the Goodrich Capital 8 Theater in Jefferson City, this past Friday.

In an attempt to promote Iron Man 3, they had an actor dressed in black, wearing body armor, and carrying a fake rifle walk into the theater. Yep. Not even one year after The Dark Knight shooting, the theater's management was somehow okay with that!

When a 6-year-old is shot by a 4-year-old, what do you do? Do you haul the 4-year-old off to jail? Do you just let it slide, write it off as a terrible accident? Or do you try to find some middle ground? That's what cops in New Jersey are trying to do right now. They've arrested the father of the 4-year-old who shot neighbor and buddy Brandon Holt last month.

But no one is charging Anthony Senatore with Brandon's death.

It's never been a mystery what side of the gun control debate Sarah Palin lands on. She's made no secret of her family's love of hunting; her daughters gave her a pink handgun for her birthday; and perhaps most telling, her son Trigg's nickname is Trigger. So she was the perfect person to fire up the ammo-loving crowd at the NRA convention in Houston, Texas today. Sporting a pink lettered "Women Hunt" tee, she quoted Shakespeare (yes, the playwright) and Margaret Thatcher. Was that unexpected? You betcha!

Now historically, I have not been much of a fan of the one-time Alaskan governor, but her impassioned rant -- however misguided many may think it is -- just may have been one of her best. Check out Palin's 8 most inspirational quotes from the NRA convention.

School shooting. Two words that put American parents into a panic. We're primed to expect the worst. What happened at an all-boys parochial high school in Cincinnati, Ohio this morning was bad enough.

It isn't a story of mass casualties. Just one student at La Salle High School was injured, and so far cops say the investigation indicates he shot himself.

I am not a fan of the NRA. I am not a fan of guns. If you asked me whether or not I'd want a kid wearing a T-shirt that said "NRA" with a picture of a gun on it to the school where my children also go, I'd say "No." But then I have to ask myself why -- beyond my personal opinion of the NRA. And that is where I get stuck. An eighth grader in West Virginia was arrested after refusing to take off his T-shirt, which had the NRA name on it and the motto "Protect your right." The school's clothing policy doesn't specifically ban a shirt like that, although it comes close, as it bans clothes that "display violence."

This has been a truly heartbreaking and difficult week in the news, and yesterday's vote in the Senate to decline the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey bill that would have extended background checks to gun shows and Internet sales was another blow. Though the bill got 54 votes, it wasn't enough to avoid filibuster and so it died. A law that 90 percent of Americans support, a no brainer law, a simple, obvious thing that most people think is law anyway, died because our Senate Republicans are bought and paid for by the NRA.

The word "despicable" doesn't even begin to do it justice.

As a person who supported the bill and supports better gun control, I am disgusted. But as an American, I am absolutely horrified. This wasn't a controversial bill. This wasn't something a lot of people were against. It has 90 PERCENT support. And it still died. What is wrong with this picture?

If you aren't a fan of NASCAR, you probably wouldn't have known the NRA was hosting Sunday's race in Texas. When ESPN reported on the event, they never even mentioned its host. But then came news of the shooting at the NRA 500.

A man died in the middle of the race at Texas Motor Speedway, victim of, of all things, a gunshot wound. It's a sad, tragic accident, and one that the NRA cannot afford to ignore.