Utah Man Dies After Accidental Shooting

Local news reports

A 50-year-old Spanish Fork man died Monday after he accidentally shot himself in the stomach.

Rowland L. Denison had been conscious and communicative when police received a 911 call and found him at 2021 E. Canyon Road about 6:30 a.m. Monday. He told officers he was removing his .270-caliber rifle from his vehicle when it fired, striking him in the stomach.

He was taken to Mountain View Hospital in Payson, where doctors wanted to fly him to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, said Spanish Fork Police Lt. Matt Johnson. However weather conditions prevented the flight, so Denison underwent emergency surgery in Payson. He later was flown to Utah Valley, where he died Monday afternoon.

No worries for the wonderful statistics of concealed carry permit holders who do wrong.  Guys like this don't count even if someone bothers to check. 

Another stupid "pro-gun" cliche bites the dust

Something to ponder.

"The Nazi law favoured - and still favours - the strong who murder the weak, Koenig argues."

This is in relation to German law which, according to the German Association of Lawyers, the Nazis decided that a murderer was someone who killed "treacherously" or "sneakily" - "heimtueckisch" is the word in the law and it remains there today.

Dr Stefan Koenig, a Berlin defence lawyer who chairs the Association of Lawyers' penal committee, says the Nazis defined murder in the light of their belief that some people were inherently weak-minded. It was about defining a murderer as someone treacherous rather than looking at the circumstances of each individual crime.

East Germany had a different law, closer to the idea in the United States, UK and many other countries, that murder requires an intention to kill or cause serious injury. But with the unification of Germany in 1990, the law of West Germany became the law of the land.

"In the penal code concerning murder, somebody is guilty of murder but not manslaughter if he abuses the victim's defencelessness, abusing the fact that the victim is not aware of any attack," he says.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26047614

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Washington Woman Arrested for Negligent Discharge

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Washington Police said a woman was cleaning a gun in her Tacoma apartment early Sunday when it fired into the unit above her where a family was sleeping. A one-year-old and a three-year-old child were asleep in the apartment when the shot was fired through the floor.

No one was injured when the gun fired about 12:20 a.m.

Tacoma police spokeswoman Loretta Cool said, the woman was booked into jail on suspicion of reckless endangerment.

You know what the problem is, though? When a negligent gun owner is charged with first-offense reckless endangerment, they plea-bargain it down to something milder and end up keeping the guns. This kind of negligence should get the full impact of one-strike-you're-out.