In a round of awful, more-depressing-as-new-details-emerge news, a three-year-old boy — who recently survived a debilitating dog attack — is in critical but stable condition after someone shot him in the head while he slept last night in Brooklyn.

Three weeks after he was caught speeding in Texas, George Zimmerman was spotted in public again on Thursday. According to TMZ, Zimmerman visited the Florida headquarters of Kel-Tec, the gun manufacturer that made the PF-9 pistol Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin, where he asked about purchasing a tactical shotgun.

Surveillance cameras inside a Florida Dunkin' Donuts store captured footage of two irate customers using a loaded gun to assault an employee because he gave them the wrong kind of coffee.

Today, a Tennesseean five-year-old brought a gun to school in his backpack. While the kindergarten student waited for the morning bell in the Westside Elementary cafeteria, the pistol fired one round. Via WMC-TV, the Shelby County Schools' statement:

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly held a news conference earlier this week to brag about the largest gun bust in the city's history.

A haunting new PSA produced with crowdfunded dollars employs audio from the night of Trayvon Martin's murder in order to recreate the crime scene from the point of view of both George Zimmerman and one of the witnesses who phoned 911.

Just hours after Brian Holbrook's 3-year-old son fatally shot himself with a gun that was improperly stored inside a bedroom closet, the Michigan dad took to his Facebook page to affirm his continued support for guns.

There is a lot to like here: Boyfriend and girlfriend spending quality time together shooting an AK-47 in the woods; boyfriend neglecting to teach girlfriend the importance of not pointing the AK-47 at anything she doesn't intend to shoot; girlfriend promptly pointing the AK-47 at boyfriend.

An Ohio man thought he was just ordering a $1700 safe for his 24 long rifles and dozen shotguns, but little did he know it had already been stuffed full of nearly half a million dollars worth of tightly wrapped Mexican bud.

Congrats to Atlanta for winning this year's "most guns found at the airport" title. We know you'll do great next year, Dallas!

A gun safety instructor in Ohio accidentally shot one of his students in the arm after violating the number one rule of gun safety.

A speeding driver who was endangering the lives of children in Norfolk, Virginia, was expressing his displeasure at being told to slow down by brandishing a gun, when the weapon accidentally discharged and struck him in the groin.

A Cleveland man who was attempting to prevent his drunk friend from getting behind the wheel of a car got a bullet in his chest for his troubles.

Police in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, say a 12-year-old boy armed with a BB gun robbed a local lemonade stand being run by a group of younger boys.

Late Monday night, a man in Concord, New Hampshire awoke in a panic, startled by a dream he'd had in which he'd heard a loud gunshot. He then realized he was standing in the middle of his kitchen, holding a gun, and bleeding from one of his knees.

Deputies in Florida's Escambia County have some explaining to do after they allegedly shot an unarmed man for grabbing a box of cigarettes out of his own car outside his own house.

A gun club in Ohio has raised over $12,000 to buy George Zimmerman new guns or a security system after the 9mm pistol Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin was taken into evidence by the U.S. Justice Department. The department is currently conducting a civil rights investigation into Martin's shooting, while the gun club argues that Justice is actually violating Zimmerman's civil rights by keeping his handgun from him.

Authorities in Tennessee arrested a 72-year-old woman for firing a weapon at a car full of children that was backing into her driveway to turn around.

North Carolina legislators just approved a gun bill that allows concealed-carry permit holders to carry guns into bars, restaurants and playgrounds, and to keep guns inside locked cars on public school and university campuses.

A shirtless man was arrested Tuesday afternoon after witnesses saw him attach a .45-caliber handgun to his belt near a Secret Service police booth outside the White House. Upon being taken into custody, the man, Christopher Briggs, reportedly told officers he was "was only going to fire a couple of shots if no one confronted me."