America's Shooting Gallery, 3-31-2008

[zanne]

MA: Joseph Domurat, 61, shot and killed his wife, 57-year-old Noreen and the couple's dog, a Great Dane, then turned the gun on himself.
CO: Man accused of shooting wife's cat for revenge 'to get back at her'. Paul John Vickers also faces charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, cultivation, and possession of more than 450 grams of marijuana.
MI: Hassan Masbouth, 52, the man accused of gunning down a competing gas station owner in Detroit last year during a gas price war was shot and killed today; he was scheduled for trial on April 7. Masbouth was pulling out of a driveway when a man between 25 and 30 years old walked up to Masbouth's SUV and fired multiple shots with a handgun.
OH: Dad fatally shot as he tried to 'jump on' son, ex-wife told 911.
CA: One man was killed and four others injured in a drive-by shooting outside the 'Church of the Living God' in Richmond, as a group of volunteers were bringing homeless people off of the street to feed them. Police don't believe the homeless people and church volunteers were the intended targets.
IL: An 18-year-old student, Chavez Clarke, was shot and killed outside a parking lot of a Chicago South Side high school, Simeon Career Academy on Saturday afternoon; 4 males are in custody.
CT: Police Officer Matthew Morelli apparently staged his death in a South Norwalk church parking to make it look as if he were the victim of a homicide while on duty. Morelli, 38, an officer for 11 years, fired two bullets into the parking lot pavement from his Sig Sauer P226 service weapon, then aimed an AK-47 at himself and pulled the trigger.
KS: A mother begged for justice after her son, Jose Macias Jr., 17, was gunned down as he walking down a Kansas City street from a drive-by shooting. A second person was shot and in critical condition.
SC: 18-year-old Jerry De La Rosa was involved in a fight with two other men Friday afternoon when he was fatally shot in the chest.
CA: Rescuers on a San Fernando freeway found a driver fatally shot in the head, while another driver was shot and wounded in a separate attack about 30 miles away in Long Beach. The incidents were the latest in a string of Southern California freeway shootings stretching back several weeks.
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[Thepricebreaker]

1. You going to list all the kids run over by cars everyday? I bet the list is A LOT longer...

[zanne]

3. Just making sure I keep all you gunners informed. nt

[YOY]

2. OMG the guy in Colorado had WEEEEEEED!

450 grams...that's what? A Pound? Quite a bit but not all that freaking much of a harmless drug.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. Considering he was/should have been charged with 2 more crimes,

I don't think they freaked out to much.

David

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Thoughts and Prayers to the families of the lost.

A lot of people are killed in this country on a daily basis it's a real shame. We really need to get these criminals off the streets. Mandatory 10 year sentences to be served consecutively tacked on for gun crime sounds like a good place to start.

David

[DonP]

6. I'm waiting for the ones listing all the "traffic shootings"

We were promised a regular series of traffic shootings and gunfights over parking spaces when the concealed carry laws were first proposed.

Why don't we see those stories? Where are the reports of the permits being revoked and permit holders being arrested for thoughtlessly brandishing and threatening innocent victime?

Instead we seem to be getting another slightly less well documented version of "Guns in the News" again that features crimes commited, in some cases, by already once convicted felons that were forbidden to own a gun anyway, cops (you know, the only people that should be allowed to have guns) that have lost it and what sound like some gang related shootings.

I'm sure the ones that feature pages and pages of nothing but concealed carry permit holders committing crimes is coming any minute .... any minute now.

I mean with something like 60,000 permit holders in Oklahoma alone and over 10 years with permits in Fliorida and Texas there must be a ton of stories featuring all those gun nuts shooting places up.

Come on, you guys promised us the wild west, Dodge City and blood in the streets.

Maybe next week, huh?