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3 Year Old Shoots Mother and Father With 1 Bullet

A Sniper? Or maybe the toddler just figured out how to hit two birds with one stone. In any case, the single bullet fired by the toddler hit his father in the buttocks, then hit his mother in her shoulder.

Albuquerque police say the toddler apparently reached for an iPod but found the loaded weapon.

The bullet first struck his father in the buttock and then hit the shoulder of his mother, who is eight months pregnant. His 2-year-old sister was present but unhurt.

Local media reports say police believe Saturday’s shooting was accidental.

Police said in a statement that the father was treated and released, while the mother was hospitalized in stable condition. They will be investigated for possible negligence charges.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that the family was living in the motel room where the shooting occurred.

Police say child care officials are taking care of the children.

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Texas Police Gun Down 17 Year Old Girl in Police Station

Police said she entered the police station “brandishing a weapon,” so that apparently meant the three grown men with guns felt threatened enough to gun down the 17 year old mentally challenged girl in the lobby of the police station.

Police said that Kristiana Coignard entered Longview’s police station at 6.30pm on Thursday and asked to speak with an officer through the lobby courtesy phone. The teenager was still in the lobby of the police station when, according to police, she threatened the officers while wielding a weapon — reportedly a knife — and was shot “multiple times,” according to a local official.

Exactly what led three male officers to shoot Coignard dead is still unclear. The Longview police department has not released any further statements on the events.

Kristie Brian, spokeswoman for Longview Police, said that footage of the incident does exist, but is not available to the public, nor are records of the brief call Coignard made from the police department’s lobby. Brian did not confirm what type of weapon Coignard was allegedly threatening the officers with.

Heather Robertson, Coignard’s aunt, told ThinkProgress that her niece, who was living with her in Longview, had mental illness issues since her mother died when she was four. Robertson added that Coignard attempted suicide various times, but was taking medications, and that she did not have a criminal record or a history of violent behavior toward others.

“I think it was a cry for help,” Robertson said. “I think they could have done something. They are grown men. I think there is something they are not telling us.”

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#GunSense – 5 Year Old Shoots 9 Month Old Baby Brother in the Head

And once again, another killing, sanctioned and approved by the no-regulations-more-guns NRA and the foot soldiers of the NRA, Republican party.

The mother called 911 to say her 5-year-old boy shot his baby brother with a paintball gun.

But it wasn’t a paintball gun. It was a .22-caliber Magnum revolver. And the 9-month-old boy didn’t survive.

Authorities are trying to figure out what led to Monday’s shooting in Elmo, in the northwest corner of Missouri.

“At this point foul play is not suspected, and it appears at this time that the shooting was accidental,” the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office said.

Sheriff Darren White told CNN affiliate KCTV that the baby was in a playpen when his brother found the gun lying around a bed.

When emergency crews arrived, they found the infant had been shot in the head. The child was flown to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was pronounced dead, the station reported.

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Pro-Gun Nuts in Texas Re-enact Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attack

Where are their morals, where are their decency? This low down re-enactment of a terrorist attack in France that left 17 people dead just shows us these people have no clue, no morals and definitely no decency.

A Texas pro-gun group organized a re-enactment of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in a bizarre bid to test what would have happened if one of the murdered scribes was armed.

But the experiment set up by the group The Truth About Guns backfired — in no scenario was the “armed civilian” able to take out both “terrorists.”

Perhaps even more disappointing for the pro-gun activists, only one of the volunteers playing the role of the armed civilian even managed to survive — by fleeing the scene.

Pro-gun activist Nick Leghorn, who helped organize the experiment, not surprisingly downplayed the results.

“It’s interesting to see how people react under stress,” Leghorn told a local CBS affiliate.

“It’s not what you’d expect people do.”

The set, created in the town of Plano, mirrored the Paris office where the bloody terror attack was carried out last week.

Armed with paintball guns, two volunteers played the roles of Cherif and Said Kouachi, the sibling extremists who carried out the Jan. 7 slaughter.

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Responsible Police Officer Shoots off His Finger in Responsible Gun Store – Video

Now you can’t get more responsible than this, right? This must be what the NRA was referring to when they talked about good guys with guns – a Police officer and a gun shop owner.

The incident shown on the video below happened in Southern Kentucky when police officer Darrell Smith visited the Barren Outdoors in March and inquired about a .380 handgun. The clerk took the gun from the display and handed it to the officer without performing any safety checks on the weapon first.

The responsible officer, who is supposed to be especially trained in handling firearms, took the gun and neglected to check if the device was loaded. Moments later, the gun goes off in the officer’s hand, blowing off part of his finger.

Needless to say, the officer filed a lawsuit against the gun shop owner and he also lost his job.

“He’s permanently disfigured,” said Alan Simpson, the attorney representing the police officer. “He went through a lot of pain and suffering, He’s gone through several surgeries. He’s got a lot of medical bills that have to be paid. It ended his career and he’s going to have a lot of lost income.”

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Woman Mistakes Husband for Burglar – Shoots Him In The Chest

“She was doing what she felt was right and to defend herself at that time,” said Detective Antoine Kincade, a spokesman with the Fayetteville Police Department. The husband thought he was doing something good by returning home early to surprise his wife with breakfast in bed.

But there was another surprise waiting for him.

The shooting happened around 10:15 a.m. in the 1100 block of Christina Street.

Fayetteville Police say Zia Segule, 28, left for work. His wife, 27-year-old Tiffany Segule, set the home alarm system. Zia Segule returned to the home unannounced to surprise his wife with breakfast. The alarm sounded and Tiffany Segule, who had gotten back in the bed, shot her husband in the chest through their closed bedroom door. Police said her husband had entered through the front door, but it’s unclear whether he ever announced himself or tried to turn off the alarm.

Zia Segule was able to walk and talk following the shooting, said police. He has been released from Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. He declined to speak in detail with media when he returned home early Friday afternoon, but said “I’m good.”

Tiffany Segule was taken to the Fayetteville Police Department for questioning. Police said she may have been on edge due to recent break-ins in the area. Four home break-ins and four vehicle break-ins have been reported in the neighborhood since January 1, 2014. However, neighbors said Friday that there have been far more attempts.

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Jon Stewart on Charlie Hebdo – It Shouldn’t Be an Act of Courage to Go Into Comedy

Like the rest of the world, Jon Stewart expressed his frustrations with the recent shooting in France, where 12 people were executed by Islamic terrorists because of the apparent deadly combination of satire and the Islamic faith.

Jon Stewart of Comedy Central had this to say.

I know very few people go into comedy as an act of courage, mainly because it shouldn’t have to be that. It shouldn’t be an act of courage, it should be taken as established law. But those guys at Hebdo had it and they were killed for their cartoons.

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Police Killed John Crawford in Walmart, Now Crawford’s Girlfriend Dies in Car Crash

Talk about a stroke of bad luck.

You remember John Crawford III, the man went to shop at Walmart in Ohio in 2014, picked up one of the guns the store was selling and was later shot and killed by police as he talked to his girlfriend on his cell phone. It was later revealed that police took his girlfriend to the precinct and interrogated her for 90 mins about how her boyfriend got the gun before telling her that her that Crawford, father of her child, was shot dead.

Crawford was seen on the store surveillance cameras walking with the store sold gun while he talked on his cell phone. Seconds after the police is seen on the video, Crawford was shot dead.

Well now the sad and unfortunate news from Ohio’s ABC 22 is that the girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, was killed in a high speed car crash on New Years day!

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Two Year Old Shoots Responsible Mother With Her Own Gun

The mother was doing a little shopping at Walmart with her two-year-old who was sitting in the shopping cart. She apparently left her purse in the cart with the gun inside. Her two year old reached into her purse, grabbed the gun and pulled the trigger.

NRA says buy more guns!

Lt. Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said that the boy was sitting in the shopping cart when pulled the handgun from his mom’s purse and pulled the trigger. The victim, whose name hasn’t been released, was 29 years old.

The preliminary investigation shows the shooting was an accident, Miller said. He added that the victim is from out of town and may have been visiting relatives for the holidays. The boy is currently with family

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They Made a Song Celebrating Mike Brown’s Murder – Video

TMZ got a hold of this video. It shows a performer singing a brand spanking new song celebrating the murder of Ferguson’s Mike Brown by the hands of a former police officer, Darren Wilson. The celebratory song was performed at The Glendale, CA Elks Lodge. The lodge is investigating…

The song was a parody of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” Gary Fishell, the performer and a member of the Lodge, changed the lyrics, which include:

Michael Brown learned a lesson about a messin’
With a badass policeman

And he’s bad, bad Michael Brown
Baddest thug in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog

Two men took to fightin’
And Michael punched in through the door
And Michael looked like some old Swiss cheese
His brain was splattered on the floor

And he’s dead, dead Michael Brown
Deadest man in the whole damn town
His whole life’s long gone
Deader than a roadkill dog

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Eric Garner’s Daughter offers Support to Families of Slain Police Officers

Earlier this year, her father was killed when a police officer applied an illegal chokehold, causing the suffocating man to say, “I can’t breathe” eleven times before he died. A grand jury later ruled that the officer did nothing wrong, sparking outrage and protests nationwide.

But today, Emerald Garner came and spoke out in support of the families of two police officers who were executed by a crazed gunman on Saturday.

“I just had to come out and let their family know that we stand with them, and I’m going to send my prayers and condolences to all the families who are suffering through this tragedy,” she told ABC News. “I was never anti-police. Like I said before, I have family that’s in the NYPD that I’ve grown up around, family reunions and everything so my family you know, we’re not anti-police.”

And although the gunman implied that his execution – style murder of the officers was in retaliation to Eric Garner’s deatg, Emerald showed nothing but class as I’m sure she is still grieving her father’s death.

The New York police union and other leaders like Rudy Giuliani with their over-the-top foolish statements should take note on how decent human beings should behave.

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Rudy Giuliani Egged On Protesters in New York, Even Blocked The Brooklyn Bridge

Rudy Giuliani is a ham. He is a political bad actor who uses unfortunate situations to further his own political ambitions. The man went on television all weekend criticizing the present mayor for allowing the protesters to “take over” the city and “blocking the Brooklyn bridge” during recent protests. But as it turns out, Giuliani is known for doing just that – taking over the city through protests even blocking the Brooklyn Bridge… and in Giuliani’s case, he literally took it over!

The protest in question happened during the Dinkins administration and it featured Rudy Giuliani who used the protest as an opportunity to launch a successful campaign for New York City against Dave Dinkins.

Below is an excerpt from an article written by The New York Times, as it detailed the events that unfolds in 1990’s. Balloon Juice dug this up.

Thousands of off-duty police officers thronged around City Hall yesterday, swarming through police barricades to rally on the steps of the hall and blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge for nearly an hour in the most unruly and angry police demonstration in recent memory.

The 300 uniformed officers who were supposed to control the crowd did little or nothing to stop the protesters from jumping barricades, tramping on automobiles, mobbing the steps of City Hall or taking over the bridge. In some cases, the on-duty officers encouraged the protesters.

While the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association had called the rally to protest Mayor David N. Dinkins’s proposal to create an independent civilian agency that would look into police misconduct, the huge turnout — estimated by the Police Department at 10,000 protesters — and the harsh emotional pitch reflected widespread anger among rank-and-file officers toward the Mayor for his handling of riots against the police in Washington Heights last July, his refusal to give them semiautomatic weapons and his appointment of an outside panel to investigate corruption.

“He never supports us on anything,” said Officer Tara Fanning of the Midtown South Precinct, echoing the view of many in the crowd. “A cop shoots someone with a gun who’s a drug dealer, and he goes and visits the family.”

Mayor Dinkins, who was not at City Hall during the demonstration, denounced the protest as “bordering on hooliganism” and said he held the P.B.A. president, Phil Caruso, responsible for what happened. He accused Mr. Caruso of inciting his members’ passions and suggested the union leader was motivated in part by contract negotiations.

The Mayor also assailed Rudolph W. Giuliani, the probable Republican mayoral candidate, who spoke out against the Mayor at the union rally. Mr. Dinkins said Mr. Giuliani had egged on the protest irresponsibly for political reasons. “He’s clearly, clearly an opportunist,” Mr. Dinkins said. “He’s seizing upon a fragile circumstance in our city for his own political gain.”

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