This was a grim news day. Oscar winner and American Idol star Jennifer Hudson's 7-year old nephew was found shot dead in a SUV today , 2 days after her mother and brother were shot dead in her sister's home. The suspect in all 3 shootings is her ex-brother-in-law, a convicted felon who served 7 years for attempted murder. My question is, should this guy have been able to get a gun - to do what he did? 3 more sad and tragic deaths to add to the 428 homicides already this year in Chicago, ahead of NY's 417 and LA's 302.
Also today, this story broke my heart. An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.
There are so many things wrong with that sentence it's hard to know where to begin. An 8-year old boy? At a GUN SHOW? Firing an UZI? Is this really what the forefathers intended 200 years ago? The boy "was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury," a police statement said. Police called it a "self-inflicted accidental shooting."
Really? The "adult supervisor" should be thrown in jail. He's lucky to be alive. But wait, there's more.
The club said on its Web site that the event, is "all legal and fun." People will be allowed to fire weapons at vehicles, pumpkins and other targets, it said. Yep. That's right. These are the wahoos who're screaming about "The right to bear arms in defence of our country". Oh yeah, and shoot whatever else or whoever else just happen to be around. All in self-defence, of course.
Finally, this is so scary - federal agents today arrested 2 neo-Nazi skinheads who had planned to shoot or decapitate 102 black people in Tennessee school - and assasinate Sen. Barack Obama during a campaign rally while dressed in white tuxes & tophats. The KKK is still alive and thriving it seems, with tophats replacing those ridiculous cone hats.
But these guys were serious. They had a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and three pistols when they were arrested, and were preparing to break into a gun shop to steal more. As seems to be the custom in these cases, one of the guys had a photo of himself on MySpace carrying a honking big gun. Can't the FBI or someone just go thru all the MySpace and Facebook pages with selfphotos of guys carrying submachine guns and check them out BEFORE these nuts go crazy and and whack people? Their killing spree was to end with the two men driving toward Obama, "shooting at him from the windows". Spine-chilling. Neither candidate commented on this story, with good reason.
Just some signs of the scary violence and power wielded by a few nutcases, brought to you by the NRA and the politicians beholden to them. I sincerely hope this can and will change in our lifetimes, starting this Nov 4th.
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