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Another US Shooting


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Not a school, but here we go again. Michigan this time.

 

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/michigan-shooting-gunman-killing-spree-city-usa-kalamazoo-160221051759006.html

 

 

US police say they have arrested a "strong suspect" after a shooter reportedly drove around the Michigan city of Kalamazoo randomly shooting people.

 

Police earlier launched a manhunt after at least six people were killed and several others were injured in the shootings late on Saturday night.

 

One of the victims, a nine-year-old child, was in critical condition early on Sunday morning.

 

Michigan state policeman Lieutenant Dale Hinz told WWMT TV said police believe "the situation is contained" after arresting a man driving a car matching a description of the gunman's.

 

“They have taken him into custody - a man matching the description," Hinz said, adding that the man was aged 45.

 

“At this point this is all we know. He is being questioned right now."

 

Sheriff Paul Matches later told the network that the suspect "voluntarily" gave himself up.

 

"The threat to the public is over. This is your worst nightmare when you have someone driving around killing people. There is usually a reason for this and hopefully after questioning the suspect we will know why," Matches said.

 

"We had several shootings tonight in the county and in the city of Kalamazoo. They all appear to be related. We have multiple people dead," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas told 24 Hours News 8 earlier.

 

"We seem to be dealing with a worst-case scenario, someone driving around shooting," Matyas told NBC News .

 

The shooter was earlier described as a white man who was driving a blue or silver Chevrolet HHR.

 

Matyas told NBC that police began investigating a shooting at a Kalamazoo County apartment building around 8pm on Saturday after a woman was shot several times.

 

She is in a serious condition, he said.

 

About three hours later, they were called to a car dealership where two people were fatally shot and a third was wounded.

 

According to other unconfirmed reports on social media, a father and son were randomly killed at the dealership. A teenager was reported to be among the people killed.

 

Another four people were reportedly killed near a local restaurant.

 

In that incident, the gunman reportedly spoke to the occupants of several vehicles for a few seconds, before he "unloaded his weapon into both cars," Matyas said.

 

 

If only that poor 9 year old had been armed.....

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You will prise their guns out of their small, dead hands....

 

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_56ce4af9e4b0bf0dab30cae7

 

 

Children of all ages in Iowa would be able to lay down their toy guns and pick up the real thing under a bill that passed the state House of Representatives.

 

The measure approved Tuesday by 62-36 vote would allow children 14 or younger to possess “a pistol, revolver or the ammunition” under parental supervision. It now heads for the state Senate.

 

“We do not need a militia of toddlers,” state Rep. Kirsten Running-Marquardt (D) said on the House floor. Running-Marquardt, joined by other statehouse Democrats, said she balked at a bill that "allows for 1-year-olds, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds to operate handguns.”

 

Logically, this bill is completely ridiculous"

Iowa Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D)

Statehouse Republicans, including the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jake Highfill, said the the legislation was an issue of parents' rights designed to correct "an injustice in Iowa code” that now forbids children 14 and younger from handling pistols.

 

Highfill said his measure would bring the law on children's use of handguns in line with regulations for shotguns and rifles, which don't restrict the age of children using them under parental supervision. Current Iowa law makes it a felony for a parent or guardian to allow a child younger than 14 to handle a pistol. Older children may do so with supervision.

 

“Allowing people to learn at a young age the respect that a gun commands is one of the most important things you can do,” Highfill told The Washington Post on Wednesday. The alternative, he said, is “turning 18 with no experience.”

 

Parents, Highfill noted, must be at least 21 years old and would have to maintain "visual and verbal contact" with the armed child.

 

“Logically, this bill is completely ridiculous,” said Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D).

 

“We can’t legislate good parenting … but we can protect our children,” said Rep. Mary Mascher (D).

 

“While most parents would not allow their 2-year-old to wield a revolver, we pass laws for those parents who lack the parenting skills needed to protect their own children,” Mascher said, citing seat belt, smoking and car seat laws.

 

Mascher cited the case of a 9-year-old Arizona girl who in 2014 accidentally killed her shooting instructor with an Uzi. The girl said she felt the weapon was too much for her and hurt her shoulder, according to the police report.

 

Rep. Art Staed (D), who said he's a hunter who supports the Second Amendment, said the legislation is a public health threat and not gun rights issue.

 

"I would not allow my children to have access to guns," Staed said.

 

Iowan Nathan Gibson told local news station KCCI he's been shooting guns with his daughters since they were 5.

 

Sisters Meredith Gibson, 12, and Natalie Gibson, 10, were among those lobbying in favor of the bill. Natalie told the station a gun is only dangerous if handled wrong.

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Man accidentally kills himself while taking photos with gun

By Skagit Valley Herald staff  Mar 2, 2016 

 

 

A 43-year-old Concrete man died Sunday after accidentally shooting himself in the face with what he thought was an unloaded gun.

 

The man and his girlfriend were at a residence in the 46000 block of Baker Loop Road taking photos of themselves with the gun when the incident occurred, Skagit County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Patrol Chad Clark said.

 

The girlfriend reported that the pair had done this several times during the day, with the man apparently removing the bullets and then reloading the gun multiple times.

 

After the last time, however, a bullet apparently remained in the gun, Clark said.

 

The death is being investigated as accidental, Clark said.

 


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