Only in America

Another day, another demonstration that maybe they shouldn’t be allowed anything more potent than a water pistol…

A fired Texas trucking company worker bent on revenge returned to the office Wednesday and fatally shot a supervisor with a shotgun before he killed himself.

“You ruined my life,” the worker yelled as he opened fire, Ryan Sullivan, a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, told NBC News.

That blast killed the supervisor and wounded two other workers at Knight Transportation in the Houston suburb of Katy, Sheriff Ron Hickman said earlier. Then the disgruntled worker turned the weapon on himself.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/several-injured-shooting-knight-transportation-building-katy-texas-n567766

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An interesting chart which shows that the numbers killed by shooting in the workplace are falling, but 300 people is still nowhere near a satisfactory amount. Not giving nutters and morons weapons would be a start, but they’d rather arm everyone than let them fight it out with sticks and harsh words…

Not just America, with the acting stupid and macho with a gun in their hands…

An Indian teenager has died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while posing for a selfie with his father’s gun.

Ramandeep Singh, 15, was posing for a photograph with his elder sister on Friday night when he pulled the gun’s trigger instead of clicking the photograph.

He was taken to a private hospital in Ludhiana, Punjab after neighbours heard the gunshot and alerted his parents, who were not home at the time. He succumbed to his injuries on Sunday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/01/teenager-shoots-himself-in-head-while-taking-selfie-with-dads-pi/

This is pretty awful for all of us, if this is to become the norm…

The ‘Progressive Left’ of Yale stand their ground :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsgc0k594Js

If only the child’s one year old brother had been “open carrying” then he might have been deterred from doing it, or at least the one year old could have shot his brother before he shot their mother. It’s obvious that America needs more guns around to stop this sort of thing happening.

More tragedy from the land of the gun for all.

A two-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his mother in the US city of Milwaukee after finding a gun in the back of their car.
The woman, Patrice Price, had been driving a car owned by her security guard boyfriend who had left his gun in the car, her father Andre said.
Milwaukee police said she was shot once in the back while driving on a local highway on Tuesday morning.
Also in the car were Price’s mother and her other son aged one.
Mr Price said she also had an older daughter, and described Patrice as “hardworking”.
“Now I don’t have her no more. My chest has been hurting,” Mr Price told Milwaukee station WISN.
“I have a knot in my chest. They won’t even let me see my daughter. I wanted to hold my daughter for one last time.”
Last month, a four-year-old boy in Florida shot his mother, Jamie Gilt, in similar circumstances.
A gun had slid from underneath the front seat of the car to the back and he unbuckled himself to get it. Ms Gilt survived the shooting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36152462

What was the name of that film, the one where the law was suspended one day a year…? Maybe that needs to be taken up by the US government as a way for the populace to let off steam and play with their guns, although it might need to be once a week…

…at least he hadn’t been drinking!

Oh.

Theatre-goer accidentally shot by man who feared mass shooting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35412196

One would comment on how absurdly stupid such a scenario would be in a modern civilised society but…

KILL KILL KILL?

Donald Trump says his supporters love him to death.

In perhaps his most outrageous comments yet, the GOP front-runner insisted Saturday that his fans are so loyal they’d stick by him even if he carried out a massacre in the heart of Manhattan.

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters, okay,” Trump said at a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa.

“It’s, like, incredible.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-supporters-back-shot-manhattan-article-1.2507163

Yup, incredible.

Does this need anymore comment, other than to say how frightening he is?

Never thought the first massacre of the year in North America would take place in Canada…

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder after shootings in Canada’s western Saskatchewan province, police say.
The boy – who cannot be named because of his age – is also charged with seven counts of attempted murder.
Four people were killed and several injured after the shootings at La Loche Community School and another location.
Friday’s attack in the remote community was “every parent’s worst nightmare”, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35394065

People don’t mind common sense stuff.
Some (the NRA) are afraid that any law passed will have “fine print”…going beyond what Obama says on TV.

American laws are famous for that kind of stuff…politicians say one thing in public, but what’s in the fine print is quite different.
In any event, he and his party have used harsh enough rhetoric over the years on the issue for themselves not to be trusted by people who disagree with them.
I’m not saying any of this is right, but it’s the way it is.

This is not really Only in America as Korth and Janz produce items not in the norm but this raises the bar.

http://cabotgun.com/2015/12/cabot-meteorite-pistol-set/

I have spoken with Fjestad and as far as he and his book being special, well, he learned about guns by creating the book whose prices are pretty much worthless.

It still confuses me that the gun fans see keeping weapons out of the hands of fruitloops as a threat to their little hobby. I would have thought less nutters with weapons would reduce their own need/excuse for owning more guns ‘to protect my family’?

At the firearms company I ran we, the UK subsidiary, welcomed anything that made another Dunblane or Hungerford less likely. (Not the panic reactions that we also saw from politicians – The US doesn’t seem to realise how lucky it is with Obama, but reduce themselves to racist name-calling).

Moggy

Well, he made his announcement.

The haters are…hating. Jeb Bush says he will repeal the actions and protect the second amendment, Sen. Ted Cruz says they are unconstitutional, presidential candidate Chris Christie insisted that Obama was acting as a dictator, but to those watching from outside of America it sounds so much like turkeys trying to convince you to eat turkey for Christmas!
What is sickening is to read the comments sections on news websites – which, incidentally, are getting flooded with the views of both sides – or listen to discussions on the radio and hearing that Americans (apparently) are scared to go out, are scared to travel in towns and cities (especially in the dark), are scared in their own homes, are scared for their friends and neighbours, YET when asked whether they have shot anybody or seen anybody shot or know anybody who has been shot, as a result of crime, the few who reply say that no, they have not but they didn’t want to take a chance.
SO Americans apparently want their guns – or rather the ones who will aggressively type crazy messages on news websites do. Comments like:

Guns are necessary for everyday survival

You really must have a desperate life where you can only compare your day to day living with those on the frontline in Syria. Ah, the problems of living in a first-world country…

British people don’t understand US gun culture, they don’t understand the US constitution, the US system of government or justice system, and therefore don’t understand the issues and nuances of this story

No, British people probably don’t, having obviously been lead astray by all those films showing a wonderful lifestyle so unlike their own, where in reality the truth is more akin to living in Stalingrad when under siege in WWII!
We (try to) make sure that our government is not influenced by lobby groups buying political votes, especially where the deaths of our citizens are involved.

Obama’s crying is shameful to America. What a disgrace for our nation. Barack is apparently having a very public nervous breakdown. Sometimes drugs do that to a person.

Oh my aching sides.
It is not Obama’s tears that are shameful for America, but the utter disconnection from the fact that everyone knows there is going to be another massacre, and another, and another, yet no one has – until now – wanted to talk about that fact because of the powerful gun lobby and the apparently god-given right of the common man to have a weapon to prevent the government from oppressing the people!

You vote for your leader, he may not get in because somebody got more votes but that is democracy – another thing where America apparently holds all the aces – and the other option is a system where you are told what to do, where you do not ask questions and where dissention is dealt with under a cloak of secrecy in the dead of night, where people disappear and no one mentions their names again, and where the population live in fear of the ruling classes. Does that sound like China to anybody, or should I start to mention booksellers too?

We are the ones crying with that dog-eating Muslim in the White House

I’m guessing that not all Americans would agree with Obama on this topic, but for some – the fruit loops without a full deck – the subject will always be the colour of his skin combined with his ‘eagerness’ to take away those weapons they would use to repel the terrorist attacks he is’obviously’ planning. It is very much a stain on America that these people, far from being a pitied group under the care of trained professionals, actually spout their rubbish as though it was a badge of honour, with some even holding down jobs of responsibility! And that is why the rest of the world is watching Obama trying to take action – because they can see that most of those – Edited as unacceptable – vocal against these reforms are the sort who would be forbidden from owning, buying or selling a weapon if everything goes as it should, yet cannot understand why America does not.

Nope, same old, same old Der Fuehrer Obama.

Hmm, like any other president has done much. Sorry, anything.

I have little faith that anything will happen – those whose best interests are served in weapons being available for all are ding their usual bit of do-goodery by campaigning against any form of gun violence prevention – but we shall see.

Black Fuhrer? How novel. Adolf must be turning in his grave at the thought of that!

A new year, a ‘new’ approach to action on gun violence in America…

Nope, same old, same old Der Fuehrer Obama.

A new year, a ‘new’ approach to action on gun violence in America…

Obama considers unilateral action on US gun violence

President Obama has said he wants to take unilateral action to tackle the problem of gun violence in the US.
In his first weekly address of 2016, Mr Obama said he would meet Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss possible actions.
He said he would seek to use his executive powers as president because the US Congress had failed to address the problem.
Analysts say there will be a backlash from gun activists and Republicans.
But Mr Obama told Americans that he had received too many letters from parents, and teachers, and children, to sit around and do nothing.
“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence,” the president said. “But what if we tried to stop even one? What if Congress did something – anything – to protect our kids from gun violence?”
He has admitted that his inability to win Congressional backing for what he called “common sense gun laws” was the greatest frustration of his presidency.
The BBC’s Laura Bicker in Washington says the president could use his executive authority in several areas, including expanding new background check requirements for buyers who purchase weapons from high-volume dealers.
However he is likely to face stiff opposition to his plans, our correspondent says.
The National Rifle Association has already launched a video series attacking gun control activists.
And in Texas, a new “open carry law” will allow Texans with a permit to wear handguns on their hips in holsters – openly displaying the fact they are armed.
Last month a Texas police chief warned the president that trying to disarm Americans could spark a revolution.
Previous efforts to introduce stricter gun control laws have repeatedly foundered despite the large number of people dying in gun attacks.
A joint Democrat-Republican bill following the 2012 shooting of 20 children and six adults at a primary school in Connecticut failed to get the 60 votes needed to broaden background checks and ban assault weapons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35211294

Just waiting for the first massacre of the year. Wonder if it will happen before the backlash takes hold?

It seems to me that most involved in this matter – as observed on TV – do not know whether they are on their **** or their elbow. I sense an undignified scramble to create distance and obfuscation, a necessary tactic if one wishes to avoid a seemingly major portion of Britain’s youth employed in what for them is an almost seasonal occupation; the demolition, with attendant arson and looting, of a major portion of London.

Just a little something that involves a shooting, a gun (not belonging to the police, although they feel the need to point that out!), a victim who was apparently asleep, an arrested officer, in Britain.

A firearms officer has been arrested and interviewed under caution over the shooting of a man.
Jermaine Baker, 28, was shot dead on 11 December during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van in Wood Green, north London.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) told a meeting held to address community tensions that the officer was arrested on Thursday afternoon.
The IPCC has opened a homicide inquiry.
‘No CCTV found’
IPCC commissioner Cindy Butts said evidence suggested Mr Baker was in a black Audi when he was shot.
“In that car was what appeared to be a non-police issue firearm,” she said.
She told the meeting the IPCC was taking detailed statements from a number of significant witnesses but at this stage no relevant CCTV had been found.
Further forensic examinations were taking place on the firearm found in the car and the gun discharged by the police officer, she added.
The Police Federation said it wanted to find out why the IPCC was “bandying words about” like homicide.
“I’ve never heard of that before,” said spokesman Ken Marsh.
“It’s a week before Christmas and this individual’s [the officer] life has been thrown into disarray.”
Haringey Borough Commander Victor Olisa said police did not believe Mr Baker was a gang member, as had been suggested in some newspapers.
Community spokesman Darren Henry said: “The police officers murdered Jermaine.
“He was asleep when he was shot. There are witnesses who are afraid to step forward because of the witness intimidation in the Mark Duggan case.”
Some in the audience raised the fact that after Mr Duggan’s death there were promises that body cameras would be worn by all police but it had yet to happen.
Mr Duggan, 29, was shot by armed police in Tottenham on 4 August 2011. The shooting sparked rioting across London and other parts of England.
An inquest in January 2014 found he had been lawfully killed…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35123051

Some will believe that the best time to shoot someone is when they are asleep but, considering that the police now say they do not believe the victim was a gang member, it is a little late for questions about intelligence now.

A little strange, the comment from the IPCC (first one in bold in above quote) – ‘a non police issue firearm’ doesn’t exactly imply some dodgy gun smuggled in from eastern Europe, it is almost as though they are saying it was official but just not from the police…? Interesting.

Here is a bit of non-political Americana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IR5gViigns&feature=youtu.be
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko2OkPXaKsA
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5yLxoXvF9w&feature=youtu.be

This is from the much less well known 2015 NASGW National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers show in New Orleans, LA.