Life In Our NRA World Continues [UPDATED]

Yesterday, as the nation mourned the deaths of the Americans lost in Newtown, Connecticut...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities in Alabama say a man opened fire in a hospital, wounding an officer and two employees before he was fatally shot by police.

Birmingham Police Sgt. Johnny Williams says the officer and employees suffered injuries that are not considered life-threatening.

Williams says police were called because a man with a gun was walking through St. Vincent's Hospital on Saturday morning. When he was confronted by officers, he started shooting and wounded one of the officers. That's when the second officer shot and killed the man.

Detectives are still working to determine why the armed man was in the hospital.

Of course, this would have never happened if surgeons and nurses walked hospital halls with .9mm's tucked under their hospital smocks. Perhaps an anesthesiologist or radiologist could have taken him out and the police wouldn't have even had to be called.

You think I'm kidding.



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More on this shooting...

Birmingham Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Johnny Williams told WAFF that the gunman positioned himself in a hallway and shot at the officer and the hospital staff members as they stepped out of an elevator. Another police officer reportedly came around the corner, alerted by the noise, and fatally shot the gunman.

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