Hoarding can be a very dangerous habit. It's filthy, unsanitary, and poses serious health threats. Although it's kind of hard to top the dangers of having so much stuff that you can't find your guns strewn throughout the house.

Johnny Lee Wicks, who shot two cops in a Vegas courthouse yesterday, had been battling the government for two years over his Social Security benefits. I guess he lost. [Las Vegas Sun. Pic: AP]

The British shooting world — in which rich people get together in stupid trousers to shotgun animals — has already hosted dictator kids this year. Now one of its leading figures is embroiled in a 'Christmas suicide mystery'.

Andrew Madoff—Bernie's son—has applied for a handgun permit. To fend off the angry poors, presumably! Once all the Goldman and AIG execs get their handguns, too, things will be back to normal around here. [NYP]

On Steven Seagal: Lawman, we see that Steve isn't just a Zen Kung-Fu Police Master, he also happens to be an excellent marksman. But is he an excellent teacher? Ehhh, not so much.

Man, the not-at-all-racist New York Post can't get enough of the Times Square gunman the NYPD shot dead when he started firing a MAC-10 in Times Square. He could've killed people? Meh, says the Post. But: a thug-life gangsta rapper?!

Today, yet another reason why young people should not get to play with firearms!

The NYPD shot and killed a CD vendor in Times Square this morning who was not only scamming tourists, but also packing a Mac-10, for chrissake. The reaction of tourists: Awesome!

Today at Gawker.TV, awkward on-air silences our favorite TV News anchors, Tiger Woods on the Bob Hope Show, yet another bad Nic Cage movie trailer, an engagement proposal on The Biggest Loser, and how women should properly handle their firearms.

Last week, Bloomberg News columnist Alice Schroeder suggested that panicky Goldman Sachs bankers were "loading up on firearms" in the event a "populist uprising" broke out. But that's not the case, you'll be relieved to hear:

An intruder breaks into a woman's house; she calls for assistance. Does she have a gun? OF COURSE SHE HAS A GUN, STUPID. It's just her feeble female brain can't use it unless she's shooting it in the kitchen. HELP!

In your ferocious Friday media column: A reporter brings a gun to cover Obama, more NYT layoffs coming soon, the Dallas Morning News would like your continued patronage, and plagiarist plagiarizes.

According to Bloomberg's Alice Schroeder, senior Goldman Sachs bankers have begun applying for permits to carry concealed handguns, lending credence to Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean's assessment that "There is an embattled feeling around" Goldman now. Tom Wolfe, call your office.

Do be careful before chastising any senior Goldman Sachs execs you happen to come across. Alice Schroeder of Bloomberg News reports beleaguered bankers at the firm have been loading up on firearms recently and "are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank." En garde! [Bloomberg; photo: VF.com]

This is why kids shouldn't be let near guns. This one can't handle firing a starchy root vegetable, let alone real bullets.

There are two ways to "get into" journalism. One: Go to journalism school and rise through the ranks of the establishment. This is dumb. The other way: Fly off to a war zone and start reportin'! This is also dumb.

Following our story about two of Colonel Gaddafi's sons treating America as their playground a magazine reports that Saif has been shooting up parts of Europe recently too, along with some intriguing playmates.

Iver Johnson Revolvers "are not toys: they shoot straight and kill." Nevertheless, they're "absolutely safe," and "Papa says they won't hurt us." In 1913, as now, gun owners were mainly schizophrenics. [Copyranter]

We mentioned last week that Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, received a concealed weapon permit in 1996 when he was living in Vinton, Va. Here are the highlights from his Roanoke County Circuit Court application.

Add this to the data pile on the Ft. Hood shooter: We've learned that Nidal Hasan applied for and received a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Virginia in March 1996.