When you start paying attention, there are an awful lot of these. They don't always make the national news. But they are there, week after week day after day, usually more than one of these every week.
If you look. Crimes of gun violence, crimes of impulse where the ease of instrumentality using a firearm is an integral part of the event.
From the AP, from KTUU tv and MSNBC.com:
DGU's? Legitimate ones? I've seen one so far this year, in Oklahoma. ONE.Juneau: Police Identify Man in Failed Murder-Suicide
Police say the man was 42-year-old Bradley James Mauch of Juneau.
Police say they got a call from a woman on Dec. 30 who said she had been shot.
When police arrived at the home, they found the woman had been shot in the abdomen. They also found Mauch was dead after shooting himself in the head.
The woman was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital with injuries that were non life-threatening.
"DGU's? Legitimate ones? I've seen one so far this year, in Oklahoma. ONE."
ReplyDeletehttp://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8505733
http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/pa-homeowner-shoots-intruder-with-a-22/
http://www.khou.com/news/local/HPD-Homeowner-shoots-kills-suspect-during-attempted-break-in-137273253.html
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/2012/january/368844/82-year-old-Daytona-Beach-homeowner-kills-masked-man-trying-to-break-in
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/dyer-man-shoots-at-suspected-police-impostor/article_ad0f4aad-bbb8-5222-b617-312083db4adb.html
There's five from just this week. Need more?
FWM, you do realize that out of every 5 DGUs you come up with 2 or 3 are bogus right?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, out of every improper use of the gun we come up with, every damn one is improper.
So, when you add ours up with the bogus ones on your list, it comes to about 100 to 1. We win.
You should just forget the DGU argument.
Mikeb302000,
ReplyDeleteJust how do you come up with the idea that two or three out of every five reported defensive uses of a gun are bogus? You do enjoy inventing numbers on the spot, and it never ceases to amaze me that Dog Gone doesn't swoop in to smack you for that.