Shooting a dog is wrong. Perhaps you ought to take some anger management classes. Oh, and you shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun.
According to The Bellingham Herald, 55-year-old David William Latham had heard a dog barking for hours on Sept. 13 so he grabbed a rifle and walked across the street to where the dogs were confined in a neighbor’s fence.
Loyce Andrews told the paper that her dogs did not know Latham, and ran to the fence when he approached. She said that Latham fired a single round into one of the dogs’ chests without uttering a single word. He then turned around to walk home.
Turning to violence-gun violence at that-has become a cherished American value. Somewhere up there with “Stop & Frisk (but mostly black and brown people”.
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Playing with a loaded gun is wrong. Perhaps you should be taught that a gun is not a toy. Oh, and you shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun.
A Florida woman was shot and killed over the weekend when her brother unsuccessfully attempted to re-enact some fancy gunplay from the movie “Tombstone.”
In the 1993 classic western, actor Michael Biehn, as Johnny Ringo, elaborately twirls his pistol during a barroom showdown with Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday.
Eric Stayton attempted the same stunt Saturday night at his home in Chaires, where about a dozen friends and relatives were celebrating the birthdays of his sister, 39-year-old Renee Chaires, and her 23-year-old daughter, reported the Tallahassee Democrat.
Chaires, a hair stylist who would have turned 40 this week, was standing next to her daughter in the home’s carport when the 50-year-old Stayton began twirling his gun in the air.
As he attempted to holster the weapon, it slipped from his hand, struck the concrete floor, and fired.
A single shot struck Chaires in the neck, and she later died.
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Shooting your boyfriend is wrong. Accidentally shooting your child while shooting your boyfriend is horrifying. Perhaps you should take some anger management classes. Oh, and you shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun.
A baby caught in the crossfire is recovering after she was accidentally shot by her own mother.
Late Sunday night, Murfreeboro police came to a downtown apartment complex after receiving a report of a shot fired.
They arrived to find a woman inside with a 9mm handgun.
Police believe she pulled it out during a heated argument with her boyfriend — the father of her daughter.
“The two were involved in a verbal and then physical confrontation with the use of deadly force,” said Kyle Evans with the Murfreesboro Police Dept.
Police said the woman fired a single round at her boyfriend and in a bizarre twist the same bullet hit both the child and her father.
The police incident report showed the bullet hit the boyfriend in the groin then traveled through him and struck their one-year-old child, who was sitting several yards away, in the rear-end.
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So you just shot a man who was in your adult daughters’ room and wasn’t threatening her. Perhaps you should learn to assess a situation before firing a deadly weapon and killing someone who was your daughter’s friend. Oh, and you shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun.
Philadelphia police on Monday responded to a 911 call from a home where a 41-year-old man lived with his 20-year-old daughter.
“Upon police arrival, they found a 32-year-old male who was shot one time in the head,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small explained, according to WPVI.
The man, identified as Marc Carrion, later died after being transported to Aria Health Torresdale hospital.
In initial reports, the father had identified the man as an intruder, a struggle ensued and Carrion was shot in head.
But the story changed after police interviewed the daughter. She had claimed that Carrion was her boyfriend.
The father saw the man crouching near his daughter’s bed, told him to get down on the floor while he called 911, WPVI reported. But when Carrion moved, the father fired a single bullet into his head.
A neighbor speaking to the Philadelphia Daily News backed up the daughter’s version of events.
The neighbor, who did not wish to be identified, recalled hearing voices arguing before the gunshot.
“I heard a girl screaming, ‘No, Daddy, no!’” the neighbor said.
“Why did you do that? He was my best friend,” the daughter allegedly told her father.
The neighbor said that “everything got quiet” after that.
Neighbor Gloria Moyett told the Philadelphia Daily News that she wasn’t buying the father’s story.
“He’s a stranger in your house, and you just shoot him in the head?” she asked. “He’s with your daughter, she’s not screaming, and you shoot him just because you don’t know him?”
“This doesn’t add up to me.”
