There have been THREE deaths in holiday shopping this year??

[underpants]

Jon Stewart mentioned this last night. I knew about the trampling death in New York but apparently there was a gun fight at a Toys' R Us in Palm Desert California.

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The Palm Desert Police Department received calls of shots fired around 11:35 a.m., Riverside County sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez said. He said officers were still investigating what prompted the gunshots.

Immediately after the shooting, about 20 people rushed into the World Gym across the street from Toys "R" Us, the gym's assistant manager Glenn Splain told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

"Some people got into a fight," said Splain, who spoke with some of the customers. "One of the guys here thought it was over a toy, but it got louder and louder and then there were gunshots."

Across the nation in New York, a Wal-Mart worker was also killed Friday after an "out of control" throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains broke down the doors at a suburban store and knocked him to the ground, police said.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/3_killed_in_holiday_shopping_m.html

[deaniac21]

1. The whole nation has turned into an East St. Louis nightclub

at 3:00 am!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Only three? Not really that bad for a nation of...

300 million, around 200 million of whom are armed, angry assholes

[slackmaster]

3. Probably a lot more than that if you count traffic accidents, stress-induced heart attacks, etc.

Not to mention suicides. The death rate is always highest in December.