GUNS IN THE NEWS--April 1, 2004

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And don't forget, it's also "I'm embarassed by my president" day!

"NORFOLK, VA—Gun owners nationwide are applauding the patriotic, though accidental, exercise of Second Amendment rights by 8-year-old Timothy Cummings Tuesday.
"Timothy is a symbol of American heroism," said NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre from Cummings' bedside at Norfolk General Hospital, where the boy is in serious but stable condition from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "While praying for his recovery, we should all thank God that his inalienable right to keep and bear arms has not been infringed."
The incident occurred shortly after Cummings returned from school and found that his parents were absent from the house. Displaying what Second Amendment-rights groups are calling "good old-fashioned American ingenuity," Cummings placed a pair of phone books on a stool to retrieve his father's loaded .38-caliber revolver from its hiding place on a closet shelf. After a preliminary backyard investigation of his constitutional rights claimed the life of Pepper, the family's cocker spaniel, Cummings fell on the weapon, causing it to discharge into his left thigh.
"The framers of the Constitution would be so proud of what my boy did yesterday," said Cummings' father Randall, 44, who originally purchased the handgun for home defense. "If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms into their own legs isn't necessary to the maintenance of a well-regulated militia, I don't know what is." "

http://www.theonion.com/onion3520/second_amendment.html

I have a hard time believing them :)

VOLUME 35 ISSUE 18 — 12 MAY 1999
Clinton Hurls Feces At Detractors
WASHINGTON, DC—Angered by criticism of his military intervention in Kosovo, President Clinton flung clods of his own excrement at White House reporters Friday. "I am the alpha male!" Clinton shouted to Sam Donaldson of ABC News. "None shall usurp my dominance of the social hierarchy!" The outburst was the first of its kind since Clinton's March 19 urination on Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a Beijing arms summit.

The Onion is a satire site. Satire uses exaggeration to show how ridiculous something is. In this case, they're using satire to show how totally ridiculous many pro-gun positions sound to the general public.

The Onion bashes Chimpy and the GOP mercilessly these days...but when Dems thinks of the Onion he has to struggle back to the days of Monicamania and find something jeering at Clinton.

never open an avenue that the other side can use.

n/t

This one, alas, is not an April Fool spoof....

"A 7-month-old girl is hospitalized after her teenage brother apparently shot her with a BB gun.
It is not yet known if the 14-year-old intentionally or accidentally shot the infant at the home in the 2200 block of Garland on Detroit's east side Wednesday night, Local 4 reported. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040401/lo_wdiv/2076434

Victim died of gunshot before dismemberment, court told

A palm print on a bank withdrawal slip and a Jeep Cherokee "soaked with blood" appear to link 21-year-old Jeremy Ryan Russell to the murder of Travis Lane, according to testimony Wednesday in Kalamazoo District Court.

The withdrawal slip emptied Lane's savings account on Jan. 14, the same day the Kalamazoo Township resident disappeared. Lane's Jeep Cherokee was found in Florida, where Russell registered it in his own name two days after Lane's disappearance and a day before part of Lane's dismembered body was discovered in a wooded area off South Westnedge Avenue and Duke Street.

Wednesday's testimony indicated that Lane, 21, who had been acquainted with Russell since they were teenagers, died of a gunshot to the back of his head.

The Jeep was tracked down by Kalamazoo police to a Jackson, Fla., body shop. Even though part of the carpet in the cargo area had been cut out and removed, the remaining carpet and other parts of the interior were "soaked with blood," testified Tyler Fall, a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety crime-lab technician.

Wish this one was only a joke too....

"A 3-year-old boy in southwest Miami-Dade County was shot with a BB gun today and taken to a hospital.
Police say the boy was hit in the arm around 11 a.m. He was with his parents at the Texaco gas station along 112th Avenue and Southwest 40th Street. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040331/lo_wplg/2075143

Todd County farmer, Hurt, dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound

ELKTON -- Arlo Hurt, 63, prominent Todd County farmer and breeder of standard bred race horses, died Monday, March 29, 2004.

Todd County Coroner Jimmy Shemwell ruled death was from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound but further commented an investigation was continuing.

Shemwell said Hurt's wife found him at about 8:30 a.m. on the family farm.

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Aren't older white men the most likely to commit suicide using a gun?

Arrest in mother's death

ANTIOCH - Police have arrested an Antioch man they say killed a woman after she got home and found him burglarizing her apartment.

Cheryl Ann Macey, 22, was shot in a parking lot behind her apartment building on Sycamore Drive in Antioch around 2 p.m. Tuesday after she confronted a burglar.

Macey, 22, the mother of a 5-year-old boy named Carlos, worked at Kids N Cribs, a nursery and children's furniture store in Antioch.

Owner Lynne Marini described the 22-year-old in an e-mail as a "struggling single mom who idolized her young son.

Autopsy shows Peoria man found in car died from gunshot wound

PEORIA - Although Antonio M. "Tony" Faulkner had his share of trouble with the law, he was "sweet, and always apologized if he did something wrong," his sister said Wednesday.

Faulkner, 21, 810 Wiswall Court, was pronounced dead about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, nearly an hour after his older sister, Sharita Reed, found him in the driver's seat of a car parked at 808 Wiswall Court.

"I thought he was sleeping so I went to wake him up, but he wasn't moving," Reed said by phone.

Startled by the discovery, she quickly called police.

An autopsy on Wednesday showed Faulkner died of a gunshot wound, Peoria County Deputy Coroner Johnna Ingersoll said. Authorities would not release where Faulkner was shot, but a police source said the 21-year-old man died from a single wound to the head.

Man with gunshot wound dies

A man with a gunshot wound in a leg died early Tuesday at Washoe Medical Center, Reno police said.

The man’s identity was not released.

Police were looking for suspects or a motive.

to those who talk blithely about nonsense like "shooting only to wound" that things don't work that way except in RKBA fantasyland.

so any wound might kill

without first aid...

Sheriff: Victims died before fire

Autopsies performed Monday indicate that two children and a woman who died Saturday were killed before their Kissee Mills home was set on fire.

According to Taney County Sheriff Jimmie Russell, preliminary autopsy results indicate the cause of death for 7-year-old Jacob Husman and 31-year-old Janet Marler to be gunshot wounds to the heads. Richard Husman III, 12, died from blunt trauma to the head, the report stated. All three died at their home in Kissee Mills shortly before 17-year-old Joshua Allen Crawford, the only suspect in the case, allegedly set the home on fire.

Gunshot kills sleeping infant

DETROIT — A 1-year-old baby was killed early Sunday when a shotgun her baby sitter was handling discharged in an east side home, homicide detectives said the 46-year-old woman told them.

Police found the body of Dai-Jhanell Clark about 3:50 a.m. lying in bed in her home in the 7000 block of Frederick, near East Grand Boulevard. She had been shot in the head.

“The baby sitter said she did not know the shotgun was loaded,” said Homicide Lt. William Petersen.

The baby sitter told police she had been cleaning and found the 12-gauge pump shotgun under the sofa.

“She picked up the shotgun and racked a round into the chamber and apparently did not know what she was doing and pulled the trigger,” Petersen said.

The gun fired and one piece of buckshot struck Dai-Jhanell in the head as she slept in a nearby room.

Report: Suspect Shot, Killed Self

The Polk County medical examiner has confirmed that a Poinciana man wanted by police died Monday of a self-inflicted gunshot at his friend's home when Polk sheriff's deputies tried to contact him.

Jenson Rivera, 19, shot himself in the head with a 9mm handgun at his friend's home on Bluebill Court.

Rivera was wanted for threatening his girlfriend with a gun, Kissimmee police said.

Man found dead in street

It's a shooting, but it doesn't appear to be a murder. Deputies say it appears a self-inflicted gunshot wound killed a man in the middle of a busy intersection Sunday night.

Residents living in the area of Atrisco and Arenal in southwest Albuquerque reported a man lying in the middle of the street at around 10:30 p.m.. When officers arrived they found one man dead with gunshot wounds to his head.

"COSHOCTON -- The arraignment for a local man indicted in connection with a shooting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6 in Coshocton County Common Pleas Court.
Donald E. Jones, III, 20, formerly of 803 Kenilworth Ave., faces separate felony charges of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder as well as six additional charges. These charges are in connection with a March 13 shooting of two relatives and a subsequent confrontation with Coshocton County deputies, according to the indictment.
The late Shane Layland, Jones' uncle, died from a gunshot wound at Grant Medical Center in Columbus several hours after the shooting, authorities said. "

http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20040401/localnews/189625.html

"New Orleans police are investigating the apparent shooting death of an 18-year-old man and the wounding of two other teens, ages 16 and 17.
The victims are all New Orleans residents. The shooting happened Wednesday at about 9:30 p.m. near the intersection of Columbus and North Rocheblave streets.
According to investigators, officers responding to a call of a shooting found the 18-year-old lying in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040401/lo_wdsu/2076762

McCormick said the woman had recently obtained a restraining order against Massegee. Around 4:30 p.m., Massegee went to the apartment complex to see the baby.

"He tried to get inside but was pushed out," McCormick said. "Then he started going a bit crazy in the parking lot, yelling and making threats."

The grandmother's boyfriend, 44-year-old James A. Ooms, who lives in the apartment, came outside armed with a pistol and confronted Massegee, who police said had used a tire iron to damage Ooms' truck.

Ooms told police that after the two men exchanged words, Massegee came at him with the tire iron, so Ooms shot him once in the lower left chest.

http://www.oregonlive.com/metroeast/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_east_news/1080827962300070.xml#continue

Never bring a tire iron to a gunfight...oh, he was under a PRO, he was not allowed to have a gun.