Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Too Many to Choose From

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Anderson Independent Mail
Chief deputy coroner accidentally shoots himself
ANDERSON — Charlie Boseman, Anderson County's longtime chief deputy coroner,accidentally shot himself in the leg during a training drill Tuesday ...
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NewsChannel5.com
Number Of Accidental Shooting Involving Children Rises In Middle Tennessee
However, last month the child involved in an accidental shooting in Goodlettsville didn't fair so well. Andrew Turner, 5, was shot and killed by his ...
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Jonesboro police say 15-year-old boy killed in accidental shooting
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1IkKfgv ) that police spokesman Paul Holmes said theshooting is believed to be accidental and ...
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Teen girl survives shooting at Arizona gun range
Police in a city just south of Phoenix said a teenage girl was injured when she was hit by a bullet while visiting a shooting range over the weekend.
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LancasterOnline
Man showing how to clean gun accidentally shot friend in leg near Columbia, police say
Emergency responders reportedly saved a 35-year-old Conestoga man's life after he was accidentally shot at the Columbia Fish and Game Range, ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
911 caller says 18-year-old 'accidentallyshot to death friend in Itasca Co.
An 18-year-old man fatally shot his 17-year-old friend over the weekend in a northern Minnesota home in what authorities were told was an accidental ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Victim ID'ed in Deer River Shooting
The teen who was accidentally shot by his friend in Deer River has been ... Authorities say 17-year-old Dallas Graciano died after being shot by his ...
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ObserverVoice.com (blog)
Man arrested after shooting 7-month-old while cleaning gun
By the time police arrived to the scene, the accidental shot to "the upper body area" of the baby had long since done its damage. Police say he loaded ...

18 comments:

  1. The NEW MERCUN WAY.

    To go out in a blast of stupidity chanting Fweedum Fweedum.

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    1. Anyone else notice how many "gun control" advocates seem to have enormous problems with spelling even quite simple words?

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    2. it's only to see if i can get a simple fuck to bite. sometimes that happens.

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  2. When we stop calling these incidents "accidental" and bring charges of negligence, maybe behaviors will change.

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    1. I've said that for quite awhile Anon. The military uses the term negligent discharge for these events. The CDC uses the term unintentional gun deaths.
      It isn't hard to charge a person with either negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter. And since county attorneys are usually elected, you could hold them accountable for their prosecution of such crimes, or the lack of the same.
      Most claim to be tough on crime, though often it's spoken as mostly a figure of speech in order to garner votes and not out of any dedication. Much like liberal politicians who say they support the Second Amendment during elections.

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    2. Nice try at diversion (dishonesty) but I wasn't limiting my comment to the military.

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    3. "I wasn't limiting my comment to the military."

      As everyone can see Anon, neither was I. I was showing that the military uses what I call proper terminology.
      And when it comes right down to it, the term "accident" or "accidental" is what gets used by the media, even when the person gets charged with some form of negligence for their part in it.
      After all, they call them accidents when it involves cars, even though in reality, someone is almost always negligent in the cause of the event.

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  3. Ah, yes--the good ol' trickle of anecdotes about people who have nothing to do with any of the regulars here, presented as justification for efforts to make us jump through more hoops to acquire life and liberty preserving firepower.

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    1. Poor you. You might have to jump through more hoops. That's much too high a price to pay to prevent some of this violence, is that your position, Kurt?

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    2. Poor you. You might have to jump through more hoops.

      Shed no tears for me. If such hoops are placed in my path, I'll sneak past 'em, since defiance of unjust laws is a moral imperative.

      That's much too high a price to pay to prevent some of this violence, is that your position, Kurt?

      Um . . . "violence"? I thought we were talking about unintentional shootings. But at any rate, yes, the price is much too high, by a factor of octillions.

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    3. I really liked your "trickle of anecdotes" line. That must be part of your honesty program, huh, Kurt? Actually this is just the first page of a search which is replicated every single day of the year with lots of new material all the time. More like the mighty Mississippi than a trickle. But keep preaching it, man.

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    4. I really liked your "trickle of anecdotes" line.

      I aim to please.

      That must be part of your honesty program, huh, Kurt?

      It's a subjective judgment, Mikeb--one man's flood is another man's trickle. Even you have acknowledged that an opinion "can't be a lie."

      And I maintain that the opinion I've expressed here (that your examples of deaths and injuries caused by unintended shootings add up to a mere trickle) is not only obviously honest, but quite defensible, as well. In a country of hundreds of millions of people, scores of millions of whom own hundreds of millions of firearms, and ( tens of? scores of? hundreds of?) billions of rounds of ammunition, the paltry number of accounts you can come up with can be rationally judged to be no more than a trickle.

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    5. I think you and the other gun fanatics know better. You can eloquently back up your absurd positions but deep down you know better. The "trickle" is way too much and something needs to be done about it. Lately it's come out that we average a mass shooting every single day, but you claim it's nothing compared to the number of gun owners. Keep sayin' it, I'm not buyin'.

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    6. The "trickle" is way too much and something needs to be done about it.

      Like firearm safety education taught in elementary schools? I think a good case could be made for that. Can I count on you to help promote this lifesaving endeavor?

      Didn't think so.

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  4. From the Fox Channel 5 Nashville new site:

    In Tennessee, parents are rarely held responsible for a child's accidental shooting death but authorities will prosecute if adults are found to be negligent. The fate of the most recent shooting, however, is still unclear.

    How is a child being able to find and pick up a loaded weapon an accident? That's like telling your dad you accidentally totalled his car after you drank a bottle and a half of vodka. How is such an action possibly not found to be negligent?

    Contrast that lackadaisical attitude about gun safety in Tennessee with the complete opposite in Sacramento California. All of this happening within a gated apartment complex. Amongst neighbors who knew each other and a four-year-old boy playing alone in the playground right in front of his mother's front door. The bitch neighbors know exactly who it is and dial 911 to teach his mother a lesson. Then she is charged with felony child endangerment, (later reduced to misdemeanor,) her kid taken away by CPS temporarily. Because her neighbors disapprove of her free-range parenting style. (Not helicopter parenting.)

    http://fox40.com/2015/11/19/sacramento-mother-faces-child-endangerment-charges-for-allowing-4-year-old-son-to-play-outside-alone/

    Only in America.

    The liberal Nazis in Hillcrest called the fire department on me once because I left my dogs in my station wagon while I was at a party for about half an hour in, maybe eighty degree heat. So I get back to my wagon to give the dogs some more water and a little walk and there are two firemen and three or more nosy females. The firemen were satisfied and took off. One of the ladies was nice. She tipped me off that they had also alerted animal control, so I moved my vehicle and went back to say goodbye to our friends. As I was heading back out of the neighborhood I saw the big animal control doggie paddy wagon and high-tailed it to the freeway on side streets. Scofflaw!

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    1. What's your point, that the two extremes are wrong and need to meet in the middle somewhere?

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  5. Not much of a point. Just ninnies on both sides. One side a huge, wasteful inconvenience, the nanny state that libertarians abhor. The other side yet another tragic death of a child. Too many to count.

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