Three days worth of local gun stories. Glimpse of the typical?

[sharesunited]

Gunfire killed a 20-year-old Kansas City man near 39th Street and College Avenue on Monday afternoon.

Witnesses initially told police two men were standing on the corner about 3:40 p.m. when one man pulled a gun and shot the other about five times. Other reports indicated the victim had just gotten off a bus and was on his way to visit a friend, Police Sgt. Dave Bernard said.

Bernard said the shooter may have been in a vehicle, although some witnesses reported two men leaving the area on foot immediately afterward. (SO MANY CONTRADICTORY DETAILS. MURDER CAN BE CONFUSING.)
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A gunman shot a man in the arm and abdomen Monday night near 61st Street and Jackson Avenue, but the victim told police he doesn't want to cooperate with the investigation.

The victim was standing outside about 9:20 p.m. when two vehicles drove by and an occupant of one vehicle began shooting.

Witnesses and the victim were not helpful, according to a police report, and the victim said he didn't want to pursue prosecution. (TRUE AMERICANS SUPPORT THE 2A RIGHTS OF THEIR ATTACKERS)
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A 28-year-old Kansas City man shot off his toe early Sunday while cleaning a shotgun he forgot was loaded.

The mishap occurred about 1:45 a.m. at the man's home in the 5600 block of Virginia Avenue. The man's girlfriend drove him to a hospital. He suffered non-life threatening injuries, but "completely shot off one of his toes," according to a police report.

Police recovered the shotgun from the man's front porch. (RESCHEDULE THOSE ARTHUR MURRAY DANCE CLASSES)
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KANSAS CITY Two people were shot Saturday morning as they sat in a car talking.

The shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m. as a man and woman were sitting in a car at Grand and Admiral boulevards, police said. Two men walked up to the car, asked the occupants "where the bank was" and began shooting, according to a police spokesman.

The couple in the car suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The attackers took items from the car. (DID THEY GET THE GARMIN?)
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Lawrence police have arrested two suspects in an overnight shooting that hospitalized a 21-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man.

Police said that at about 1:20 a.m. this morning they were called to investigate shots fired in the parking lot of Cross Town Tavern, 1910 Haskell Ave., and found the victim lying on the ground with several gunshot wounds. Police described his injuries as non-life threatening. (BUT WILL HE EVER BATHE NORMALLY AGAIN?)

The suspect vehicle, a red compact, had left the area northbound on Haskell with a female driver and male passenger. It was then seen pulling into an apartment complex at 1600 Haskell by witnesses who called police. Officers searched the area and arrested two suspects.
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A woman rolled her car Wednesday night while trying to avoid gunfire on U.S. 71.

No one was hurt in the 8 p.m. incident near Gregory Boulevard. The woman told police she was northbound when the driver of a white Ford Mustang began shooting at her car. The woman sped up and tried to change lanes to get away but lost control and rolled her car in the median. The Mustang drove away.

The woman and a female passenger got a ride from passing motorist to a police station. Police said the woman’s car sustained a gunshot hole on the driver’s side, near the gas cover. The women told police they didn’t know why the other driver shot at them. (NICE 2A + 1A FREEDOM-OF-EXPRESSION TWOFER)

[virginia mountainman]

1. More gun news items..

Homeowner fired gun to protect his wife during invasion

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080605/NEWS01/806050530


Armed Citizen Stops Bank Robbery Suspect

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/16623012/detail.html

Homeowner shoots burglar during home invasion

http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-060908-mw-lincolnhomeinvasion.16fe781b.html

Homeowner wounds would-be burglar

http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/06/22/invasion_0623.html

Fighting Back: City Councilman Pulls Trigger

http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/19948859.html

[sharesunited]

2. Looks like heroic horseshit from Hooterville to me.

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. Handguns didn't exist when the 2nd Amendment was ratified.

I support the 2nd Amendment but it has nothing to do with protecting citizens from criminals.

Revolutionary soldiers didn't OWN guns. Most rural Americans didn't OWN guns until the late
1800s when they were marketed as part of a fascist military image of an expansionist America
(the Colt "peacemaker" protecting you from Indians and other non-whites coming onto your land.)

That's not what the Revolutionary war was about.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. don't tell that to Alexander Hamilton, say, or Charles Dickinson.

I know, I know, but still.....

[Dimensio0]

6. Handguns did exist when the Second Amendment was ratified.

Are you denying reality, or have you merely done no research?

[spin]

8. Research showing handguns did indeed exiist...

While some people believe that handguns did not exist when the Patriots were fighting for their right to arms, handguns were actually hundreds of years old by then. Handguns had grown common enough in the early sixteenth century that legislation was proposed as early as 1518 (by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian) to address them; and by the latter part of the 1500s, handguns were standard cavalry weapons. When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, state militia laws requiring most men to supply their own firearms required officers to supply their own pistols.

The Revolutionary War handguns were mostly very large .50-caliber single-shot pistols, often built by the same gunsmiths who made the Pennsylvania Rifles. Colonel Samuel Colt's multiple-shot revolver lay decades in the future — although there were predecessors available, such as "pepperbox," which used revolving barrels, each containing its own bullet.

http://www.davekopel.com/NRO/2000/Guns-of-Our-Freedom.htm

A better wording of your post would have been "Revolvers and semi-auto firearms didn't exist when the 2nd Amendment was ratified.

Hard to argue with that point!

[Recursion]

9. Sigh

[KG]

5. guns uber alles.

[Wcross]

7. Fortunately we CAN ban criminals!

The bill of rights acknowledges our rights as citizens to keep and bear arms. Criminals that commit crimes with firearms can be banned from society. Life in prison if you use a gun while committing a crime. I think that would be a huge deterrent to gun crimes.