Weer'd World

There’s a lot in this one:

A Tampa man has been convicted of beating his wife to death with a baseball bat.

…Authorities say **KILLER** and his wife, **VICTIM**, got into an argument at their Tampa home in June 2010, and **KILLER** later went to a neighbor’s house to tell them his wife had a heart attack.

So the anti-rights activists always tell us that they focus on “Gun Death” because guns make it “Too Easy” for a simple argument to become a fatal event. Odd how that doesn’t seem to play out in reality. Also the antis constantly claim that states like Florida that are relatively nonrestrictive on gun ownership that “Gun Death” is more prevalent.

Of course reality is that those who are willing to kill over a simple argument or other trivial event don’t CARE what tools are available, and “Ease of Murder” is really only in the mind of the killer.

H/T Dive Medic

Ye Been Warned:

Less than a week before **REDACTED** was charged with suffocating her two young children, police had escorted her to a hospital for an emergency psychiatric evaluation. She had threatened to kill herself and **REDACTED**, her 3-year-old daughter, authorities said Monday.

…On Sunday, authorities received a call about 2:15 from the children’s maternal grandmother, **REDACTED**, that **REDACTED** were not breathing, charging documents say.

“Investigators learned from **REDACTED** that **REDACTED** . . . woke her up and ultimately told her that she killed her children,” according to court records. “v then found the children with plastic bags and duct tape around their faces and heads.”

Sorry for all the redacted names, but I just can’t publish all the personal details, you’ll have to read the report. Now given our current mental health system, this woman would not have been barred from buying a gun because non court-ordered mental health care is private medical information. I prefer this, as you often hear of mental-health practitioners giving bad diagnoses, or pushing their personal agenda (one of the better examples is what was done to homosexuals by the mental health system not long ago, or the ever evolving paradigm that is “Autism”), so the fact that somebody getting rights stripped from them needs to be in front of an impartial judge, and have legal representation. It’s hardly perfect, but it’s better than scrapping the whole thing for some other method IMHO.

Still even if she was barred from owning firearms by her first evaluation, what good would it have done? Of course the antis don’t care, because only “Gun Deaths” count, so only people with mental issues SHOOTING people is relevant for discussion.

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties

Some things do “Just Go Off”

A pit bull owner convicted of second-degree murder after his dogs fatally mauled a woman was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison.

**REDACTED**, 31, was convicted last month in the death of **VICTIM**. The 63-year-old retiree was taking a morning stroll in the high desert town of Littlerock when four of **REDACTED** dogs leaped over a fence and attacked her in the street.

She was alone, didn’t have a phone and no one was nearby. By the time help arrived, she had been bitten 150 to 200 times from head to toe and an arm was severed. She died from blood loss.

**REDACTED** was initially arrested when deputies searching for the dogs discovered a marijuana-growing operation in his house. He was later charged with murder when **VICTIM** DNA was found on his dogs’ bloody fur.

A murder conviction for a killing by dogs is rare.

Now what’s really interesting is that in California, where this happened, marijuana is essentially legal. There are doctors who will simply write a “prescription” for anybody with a pulse to go and buy or grow their own pot. Except this guy didn’t care about any of that, nor did he seem to care if his vicious dogs got loose.

Hey, but at least it wasn’t a “Gun Death”, right?

Sounds like a single punch too:

A judge in central Ohio has sentenced a 28-year-old man to nine years in prison for killing his 4-year-old son by hitting him in the chest.

…A prosecutor says the man struck the boy in the chest, stopping his heart.

Brutal, and horrible, but not a “Gun Death”, so look the other way!