America's Shooting Gallery April 21, 2008

[zanne]

OH: A Holmes County Sheriff's deputy is recovering at Akron General Medical Center today after shooting himself with his own weapon early Sunday.
NJ: A gunman shot a driver stopped at a traffic light and killed a pedestrian early Sunday, and the same man may be responsible for the shooting of a police sergeant, authorities said.
NC: Two Injured in Shooting at Greensboro Night Club
IN: Deadly Shooting at Gas Station
VT: Police mull charges in Rutland shooting
CT: Survivor of New Haven triple shooting remains hospitalized
MO: Two Dead In Early Morning Shooting Near Bar
NC: Two Injured in Shooting at Greensboro Night Club
CO: Aurora police search for clues in fatal shooting
CA: 3 Suspects Arrested in Deadly Hollywood Shooting
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---America's gun culture in action.

Source: Gunguys.com

[mrcheerful]

1. Back in my home town people get shot nightly and you hear nothing

on the news stations, though if its a bizarre shooting the news paper writes a paragraph about it in the back of the paper. Mainly its considered black on black crime so why hurt the tourist trade by reporting black on black shootings is the way its seen.

[mvccd1000]

2. That knife cuts both ways.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/18/BAE71081HV.DTL

(04-18) 14:45 PDT OAKLAND -- An employee of an Oakland liquor store shot and wounded a would-robber, police said today.



http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080414/NEWS/80414053

Man acted in self defense in fatal Lexington shooting, police preliminary report says



http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-35/120820494425250.xml&storylist=alabamanews

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — A would-be thief was shot in the stomach as he tried to rob a man over the weekend and is recovering in Tennessee, where he fled after the incident in Scottsboro, police said Monday.



http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2008/4/13/store_owner_shoots_wouldbe_robber.html

ORLANDO -- A would-be robber, who was shot by a grocery store owner in Orange County, has died.

[Longtooth]

3. Just by reading the headlines it strikes me

that many of those cases the "victim" would had been well served to have taken Jefferson's advice: "to at all times go armed".

[Callisto32]

4. I would say it's more like America's criminal culture in action....

[slackmaster]

5. Not bad for a country with over 300 million people

:hi:

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

6. Thoughts and Prayers to the victims and the families of the lost.

I hope the criminals who perpetrated many of these acts are caught and punished to the full extent of the law.


David

[Irreverend IX]

7. I like how so many of these "Shooting Galleries"

Include cops misbehaving or making dumb mistakes. What would the Gun Guys do to reduce these police mishaps, I wonder? Disarm the cops too? Maybe they're just desperate for material.