And then there's this...
Police say a 75-year-old man in Dallas is being charged with Capital Murder after he allegedly shot and killed two neighbors because they had dumped dog feces on his porch.Whoops. One too many video games for Kim, I guess.
According to The Dallas Morning News, Chung Kim had repeatedly complained to management at Sable Ridge Apartments that Michelle Jackson and Jamie Stafford, who lived above him, had dumped dog feces on his porch and allowed their dog, Selena, to urinate on the upstairs balcony which dripped down to his patio.
Tension finally boiled over on Monday when Kim was on his patio and shot 31-year-old Jackson multiple times as she stood on the patio above him, police said. He then reportedly went upstairs and shot Stafford, who was also 31, as he was trying to escape. After Stafford fell from the second floor, Kim is accused of going back downstairs and shooting him again.
Michelle Jackson and Jamie Stafford: collateral damage in Wayne's World.
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2 comments:
Please explain how the article you linked to is an indictment of LaPierre or the NRA.
I ask because the article you linked to makes no mention of any "assault weapon" or high capacity magazine being used. Although the factual pretext is presented as doggy doo, the defendant is 75 years old, and it is a fairly safe assumption that some sort of mental illness or infirmity was a factor based on the facts reported, which normally do not incite deadly acts from sane people.
Although LaPierre and NRA have included violent video games (and violent media generally) among the constellation of factors contributing to mass shootings (the joke in your cartoon), both LaPierre and the NRA are very clear that mental illness is the primary factor, with violent media merely exacerbating the problem.
But even if you are unwilling to assume that mental illness played any role in the incident you linked to, my understanding, Rick, is that you support the right of citizens to, at a minimum, own some kind of handgun. Now if you really believe that the incident was really as simple as a perfectly sane, but grumpy old man who just decided to blow away a young couple over doggy doo, then what do you suggest be done to prevent such incidents in the future, Rick?
Because you keep insisting, Rick, that nobody wants to ban guns. Well if that is the case, then how does the incident in the article fall in the lap of the NRA, when your own policies ( as you've implied them to be), would not have prohibited the defendant from owning a gun?
So please, tell me how the NRA, and by implication I as a member, are to blame for the incident in the article.
Or, if you like, delete the comment. It is your blog, after all.
Right, so you can tell me how I'm wrong and how much I want to take away everyone's 2A rights and why I should apologize to you...yeah, I know.
I have better things to do tonight. No, thanks.
But that you for letting me know that I'm in charge of my blog. You rock.
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