LAPD Caught On Video Shooting Homeless Man To Death

Huffington Post with video report

U.S. Has More Guns – And Gun Deaths – Than Any Other Developed Country

ABC

The United States has more guns and gun deaths than any other developed country in the world, researchers found.

A study by two New York City cardiologists found that the U.S. has 88 guns per 100 people and 10 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people — more than any of the other 27 developed countries they studied.

Japan, on the other hand, had only .6 guns per 100 people and .06 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people, making it the country with both the fewest guns per capita and the fewest gun-related deaths.

Drs. Sripal Bangalore, who works at NYU Langone Medical Center,  and Dr. Franz Messerli of St. Luke’s Medical Center studied the statistics of guns per capita and gun deaths. They used firearm injury data from the World Health Organization and guns per capita data from the Small Arms Survey to put together a list of 27 developed countries.

They said they carried out their study because of what they said are seemingly baseless claims on either side of the gun control debate.

“I think we need more of what I would call evidence-based discussion and not merely people pulling things out of their hats,” Bangalore said. “We hear time and time again about these shootings, especially in the last year or so. A lot of claims are made…so we wanted to look at the data and see if any of this holds water.”

They concluded that more guns do not make people safer.

Alabama Woman Barbara Grice Entered Elementary School with a Loaded Gun and Threatened her Sister

Barbara Grice

Local news 

The Foley woman accused of walking into Elberta Elementary School Wednesday with a loaded gun and threatening her sister will be held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center on $1 million bond, Judge Scott Taylor ruled Friday.

Barbara Grice, 51, will also undergo a mental evaluation, cannot go within one mile of a school and will be placed on house arrest if she is released on bail. Her actions inside the school's cafeteria prompted authorities to lock it down, causing panic to ripple through the South Baldwin County community.

"When you have someone come into school with a loaded weapon, threatens to kill someone, it puts everyone in fear," Baldwin County Chief Assistant District Attorney W. Rushing Payne Jr., who requested the $1 million bail, said following the hearing. "It's why we asked for a high bond. We can't allow someone like this out."


Elberta police have said that she got inside the school around 1:30 p.m. after knocking on a back service door where food is delivered to the cafeteria. A worker looked out the peep hole, didn't see anyone and proceeded to the open the door. When the worker didn't see anyone outside, she let the door close but Grice was able to enter.

Grice then confronted her sister, Kathy Partin, at an office inside the cafeteria. Authorities have said the two sisters were feuding over a domestic issue.

Isn't it wrong for the district attorney to say "We can't allow someone like this out?"

Plus the"cannot go within one mile of a school" thing is a bit ridiculous, don't you think?

South Korea to Tighten Gun Rules After Man Kills 3, Himself

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A man fatally shot three people Friday and was found dead with a suicide note in the second deadly shooting in three days, prompting South Korean police to announce plans to tighten regulations on gun ownership.

Gun possession is tightly controlled in South Korea, with only one civilian murder with a firearm reported last year. But hunting weapons, like a shotgun in Friday's killing spree, are allowed.

The victims included a policeman, who was one of the first officers to respond, according to police in Hwaseong city, near Seoul. The 75-year-old suspect is believed to be the brother of an 86-year-old victim, whose wife was also dead, police said.

The suspect was found with gunshot wounds in his chest and near his right armpit in what the police believed to be a suicide.

It was believed that the slain officer, who wasn't wearing a bullet-proof vest and armed only with a stun gun, tried to talk the suspect into surrendering before being fatally shot in the chest.

The suspect had retrieved the shotgun from a nearby police station about 20 minutes before the shooting. South Koreans can obtain licenses for shotguns and air rifles for the purpose of hunting, but they are required to keep the weapons at police stations and use them only during legal hunting periods. Police said that the suspect had proper license for the shotgun he owned.

According to the National Police Agency, South Koreans legally owned about 160,000 guns as of January, a figure that included hunting weapons and self-defense tools such as gas-emitting guns.

The police agency said Friday it plans to tighten regulations on gun ownership, including strengthening the screening of those seeking to license a weapon and shortening renewal periods.

Texas 3-Year-old Dies After Accidental Shooting

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A 3-year-old boy died at the hospital after he was struck in what investigators characterized as an "accidental shooting" at his home in northwest Harris County.

Sheriff's deputies said the incident happened about 12:30 p.m. Friday inside the two-story home in the 7400 block of Betanna near Elmont.

The boy, his mother, and another young sibling were the only ones in the house at the time.
The mother was in another part of the house when she heard a gunshot, officials said.

She rushed to her two children and found the 3-year-old with a gunshot to the neck or jaw area, deputies said.

The boy, who has not been identified, was flown by LifeFlight to Memorial Hermann Hospital at the Texas Medical Center, where he died, officials said.

Sheriff's detectives said later Friday they have not yet questioned the boy's mother, who was at the hospital.

Texas Mom Pulls Gun on 14-Year-old Daughter's Rival During Playground Girlfight

Local news reports with video

Mommy brought a gun to a fistfight.

Texas-style justice went too far when a mom tried to sway a playground fight between her 14-year-old daughter and a rival by pointing a handgun at the head of the other girl, video from the incident shows.

Hours after the Tuesday girlfight at a park next to Pasadena High School in suburban Houston — broken up by campus police — Viridiana Alvarez, 33, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after photos and video emerged of the gun-toting mom.

Federal Court Rejects Challenge to California Gun Safety Law

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A federal court has rejected a challenge to California's gun safety law, possibly paving the way for a requirement that new guns mark the bullets they fire so they can be traced. 

The ruling on Wednesday was a defeat for two gun rights groups that argued the Unsafe Handgun Act violated the constitutional right to bear arms.

The law prohibits the manufacture or sale in California of any gun that doesn't meet certain safety requirements. 

It was aimed at outlawing cheap "Saturday Night Specials" that were disproportionally used in crimes.

A 2007 amendment added a requirement that new or modified semi-automatic handguns include technology that microstamps a bullet casing with a code identifying the gun's make, model and serial number.

 

That requirement was held up by concerns about patent issues on the technology but took effect in 2013. However, the federal challenge continued.

This week's ruling "means that more gun crimes will be solved, more lives will be saved and California communities will be safer," said a Friday statement from Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, who authored the 2007 amendment when he was a state Assembly member.