New Orleans Bridge Shooting: Man, Baby Fatally Shot In Apparent Ambush

[onehandle]

Source: AP

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man and a 7-month-old boy have been fatally shot in an apparent ambush on a New Orleans bridge.

Police spokesman Frank B. Robertson III told The Associated Press that someone opened fire on the 25-year-old man Wednesday night as he rode in the back seat of a black Honda Accord on the Crescent City Connection bridge.

Robertson says the boy was in a car seat beside the man. He says a woman who was driving and another woman who was a front-seat passenger were not hurt.

The boy was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/new-orleans-bridge-shooting_n_4271768.html

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Moar guns.

[mtasselin]

1. WTF

Apparently know one is safe in this country anymore, what exactly is it going to take to stop this insanity. Why can a small handful people gun nuts control what the rest of America wants and needs.

[AndyA]

2. Gosh, it seems like this *more guns for everyone* deal isn't working out so well

Perhaps it's time to try something else? Like fewer guns for everyone? Or mandatory military or guard service to have a gun? Background checks for everyone, regardless?

[FreakinDJ]

3. Mandatory Military or Guard Service would be very bad

All the returning Vets joining local Police and Sheriff Depts have led to a lot of unarmed citizens being shot for no appearent reason

[nomorenomore08]

5. +1

To be brutally honest, I wouldn't tend to trust a vet with a gun any more than a non-vet with a gun. Think of PTSD if nothing else.

[nomorenomore08]

4. IIRC, fewer people nowadays own guns, but they own more guns on average.

Honestly, I think social pressure - like recognizing stockpiling of guns and ammo for the unreasonable paranoia that it is - might go a long way toward discouraging the gun nuts' craziness. Not discouraging gun ownership in general, necessarily, but encouraging more reasonable gun ownership.

[AndyA]

6. I was thinking active military or guard service for gun ownership

in keeping with that militia thing the 2A mentioned.