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In South Africa where they have lots of gun control (tho really high “Gun Death”

South African police on Monday searched for assailants who forced a family from their car and drove off with a 4-year-old boy hanging out of the vehicle. The boy was later found dead in the abandoned vehicle.

The boy was with his sister and parents in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, during the carjacking Saturday night, according to South African media. His mother told The Star newspaper that she tried in vain to pull her son from the car. The boy’s head and body may have hit the road as the car sped away, causing fatal injuries.

“I asked them to let me pull my child out because his foot was stuck, but they just sped off and ripped him out of my hands,” The Star quoted the boy’s mother, Chantel Morris, as saying.

Brutal, but no gun used, so what’s the concern?

Where they have low “Gun Death” and lots of gun control:

A Texas man was arrested Tuesday in New South Wales, Australia in connection to an incident where he is accused of attacking his ex-wife’s current husband with a crossbow and a tomahawk.

Funny how even in the belly of the gun control beast, people still find ways to get deadly weapons. Thankfully nobody was killed, but this sounds more like exceptional luck, than a sucess of gun control.

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties

When I read that she was a boxer, I thought she might have been killed in relation to the sport. Nope:

The Cleveland police said that Cashmere Jackson, a 26-year-old former light welterweight national boxing champion, died after she jumped onto the hood of a car driving toward her after an altercation, fell off and was accidentally run over by a different vehicle.

Do we ban cars, or ban boxing just to be safe?

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties

A terrible way to die:

Authorities in Lancaster, Wisconsin say a 9-year-old boy who died after becoming trapped in a grain bin on his family’s farm wasn’t trying to fix equipment as previously thought.

The boy fell into the grain bin and was killed. Grain contains Gluten which is the devil. Ban grain!!!!

H/T Bob

They say you shouldn’t resist a robber because your stuff isn’t worth your life. Sometimes it is:

An art school graduate who had just moved into a rooming house was strangled and beaten to death by another tenant trying to rob her, police said Wednesday.

…He apparently believed she had a large amount of cash, said police Lt. Walter Bell, who would not disclose what Jakson allegedly stole.

Police said the events likely began unfolding Sunday night during a confrontation in the rooming house. **REDACTED** allegedly killed Araujo during a struggle, stuffed her body in a duffel bag, then drove her car — filled with her belongings — to a vacant lot in north Philadelphia, police said.

I can’t speculate on the items stolen, but picking on an art school graduate as somebody to rob is not the wisest decision if you want to make your fortune.

God forbid this young woman had bought a gun to protect herself. There might have been a “Gun Death”, and the anti-rights people would find that deplorable. This outcome is preferable to them.

What do you think?

H/T Bob

It is NOT the gun, it’s the person!

Police in suburban Cincinnati say a 14-year-old boy suspected of killing his infant stepsister by intentionally smothering her is in custody at a juvenile facility.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a detective wrote in a sworn statement that the teenager said he covered the sleeping infant’s face with a pillow because he heard voices telling him to do that. The newspaper says an arrest slip indicates the boy has a psychiatric disorder.

All homes have pillows, many homes have infants, a good deal of those infants have older siblings. Hell even a good part of those siblings could be declared “mentally ill” depending on where you set the bar for that. Still we don’t read about this every day.

It is the person, not the tool they use to kill.