Wednesday, December 17, 2014
South Carolina 3-Year-old Shoots Himself Dead - No One Charged
Local news reports with video
The mother of a 3-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed himself thought the gun was unloaded, according to Simpsonville Police Chief Keith Grounsell.
Grounsell said the child’s 38-year-old mother, who has limited knowledge of guns, had taken the clip out of the gun, but did not realize that there was still a bullet in the chamber.
"The mother did take precautions. It wasn't that she didn't. She just didn't know how to properly unload a gun," Grounsell told WYFF. "The magazine was removed from the gun but she did not rack the slide to get the bullet out of the chamber."
He said the mother had put the gun inside a dresser, and Michael had climbed up on a pile of Christmas presents to reach it.
I guess it all depends on what you mean by precautions.
Ohio Man Shoots and Kills Himself with Friend Gun - No Charges
Local news reports
A Newark man was killed last night when a gun he was handling accidentally fired.
Christopher Byerly, 23, was visiting a friend at 569 E. Main St. Newark Police Sgt. Paul Davis said that Byerly was carelessly handling a firearm that belonged to the resident.
When the gun owner tried to retrieve the gun, Davis said, Byerly pulled away. His thumb got caught in the trigger guard and the gun fired, shooting Byerly in the chest.
Byerly, of 88 N. Buena Vista St. in Newark, was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital, where he died.
Davis said there was no evidence of any criminal activity.
‘It was completely accidental,” said Davis. “We don’t anticipate any type of criminal charges being filed.”
A Newark man was killed last night when a gun he was handling accidentally fired.
Christopher Byerly, 23, was visiting a friend at 569 E. Main St. Newark Police Sgt. Paul Davis said that Byerly was carelessly handling a firearm that belonged to the resident.
When the gun owner tried to retrieve the gun, Davis said, Byerly pulled away. His thumb got caught in the trigger guard and the gun fired, shooting Byerly in the chest.
Byerly, of 88 N. Buena Vista St. in Newark, was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital, where he died.
Davis said there was no evidence of any criminal activity.
‘It was completely accidental,” said Davis. “We don’t anticipate any type of criminal charges being filed.”
Obama Surgeon General Nominee Prevails Over NRA And Right-Wing Media Smear Campaign
Media Matters
Dr. Vivek Murthy overcame a longstanding right-wing media and National Rifle Association smear campaign togain Senate confirmation as Surgeon General on Monday by a vote of 51-43.
Conservative media had worked to cast Murthy as a radical for his uncontroversial stance that gun violence is a public health issue and criticized his supposed lack of qualifications.
The conservative media attacks against Murthy began in early March. Coverage of his nomination focused on his past acknowledgement that gun violence affects public health, which conservative media spun as evidence Murthy is obsessed with gun regulations. (Murthy has actually said his focus as Surgeon General will not be on gun violence, but rather obesity.)
Fox contributor Katie Pavlich claimed that Murthy is "rabidly anti-gun" and "must be stopped," and Fox & Friends co-host Peter Johnson, Jr. argued that, if confirmed as Surgeon General, Murthy would make the examining room about "about party registration or about gun registration" rather than medicine. Fox hosts also worked to downplay Murthy's considerable accomplishments and suggested that he was unqualified to be "our nation's doctor" because "he hasn't done much in his career yet," all while arguing he would turn the Surgeon General role "into a hyper-partisan position." These arguments became the basis for an extendedsmear campaign on Fox News and conservative blogs.
Quote of the Day
“The thing is, once everybody’s carrying guns, it kind of becomes hard to identify who the good guy is, who the bad guys is. It’s not like people are running around with a stamp on their forehead saying, ‘good guy,’ ‘bad guy,’” said Marshall, Texas, Police Chief Jesus Campa.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
It would be even more intimidating if he had 6-8 black men with him....
Or, Santa: He'll slay you!
You don't seem to realise how stupid you come off to me when you point to the "blackface" aspect of the Zwarte Piet tradition in my posts: especially when there is a link to SOMEBODY READING THE STORY, where he says.
and I have a label to the post: 6 to 8 Black men
Anyway, had you bothered to LISTEN to the story, you would have heard:
Take another bow for making fools of yourselves! You deserve it.
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| "Elves," he said. "They're just so silly. I now have 6-8 black men as helpers." |
You don't seem to realise how stupid you come off to me when you point to the "blackface" aspect of the Zwarte Piet tradition in my posts: especially when there is a link to SOMEBODY READING THE STORY, where he says.
In France and Germany gifts are exchanged on Christmas Eve, while in the Netherlands the children open their presents on December 5, in celebration of St. Nicholas Day. It sounded sort of quaint until I spoke to a man named Oscar, who filled me in on a few of the details as we walked from my hotel to the Amsterdam train station...
Then, of course, you've got the six to eight former slaves who could potentially go off at any moment. This, I think, is the greatest difference between us and the Dutch. While a certain segment of our population might be perfectly happy with the arrangement, if you told the average white American that six to eight nameless black men would be sneaking into his house in the middle of the night, he would barricade the doors and arm himself with whatever he could get his hands on.Not to mention I say things like:
OK, this is a tradition that needs to be experienced in person, but this comes pretty close to what it is like. It usually comes as a surprise for the non-Dutch/Flemish when they first encounter it (I know it did me).and
As Sinterklaas is coming to town this weekend: here is a description of a tradition that I experienced live and in person when I lived in Belgium. I was walking down the street in Antwerp to run into two men in blackface (and this was after Vlaams Bloc won the election). I decided to keep my wisearse comments to myself.Now, would the neo-nazi Vlaams Bloc be upset if my comments were approving? Seriously, How stupid are you people?
and I have a label to the post: 6 to 8 Black men
Anyway, had you bothered to LISTEN to the story, you would have heard:
Oscar finished his story just as we arrived at the station. He was a polite and interesting guy very good company, but when he offered to wait until my train arrived I begged off, claiming I had some calls to make. Sitting alone in the vast, vibrant terminal, surrounded by thousands of polite, seemingly interesting Dutch people, I couldn’t help but feel second rate. Yes, the Netherlands was a small country, but it had six to eight black men and a really good bedtime story. Being a fairly competitive person, I felt jealous, then bitter. I was edging toward hostile when I remembered the blind hunter tramping off alone into the Michigan forest. He may bag a deer, or he may happily shoot a camper in the stomach. He may find his way back to the car, or he may wander around for a week or two before stumbling through your back door. We don’t know for sure, but in pinning that license to his chest, he inspires the sort of narrative that ultimately makes me proud to be an American.Consider yourselves willfully ignorant if not seriously DUMB for having missed a lot of what was going on.
Take another bow for making fools of yourselves! You deserve it.
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