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Who can you call when the police are trying to murder you?

A D.C. police officer has been indicted on a charge of attempted murder after allegedly trying to kill his wife with a metal light fixture and threatening her with knives in their home in Prince George’s County.

Prosecutors announced the indictment Friday against Officer Samson Edwards Lawrence III, 45, who lives in Accokeek. The 23-year veteran is charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault and two counts of possessing a dangerous weapon with intent to injure.

Good thing DC makes it really hard for citizens to get handguns, because otherwise this monster could have been shot!

Further information gives me chills:

Lawrence, who had been assigned to the School Safety Division, was arrested Nov. 25, a day after the alleged attack, and charged with several counts of assault and reckless endangerment.

Yep, he was guarding our CHILDREN! Classy!

H/t Whipped Cream Difficulties

England is a land with infrequent “Gun Death”, but that doesn’t make it a safe place.

A small article about a murder-suicide near his London home sent Antonio Zazueta Olmos in search of the crime scene. A man had stabbed his girlfriend to death, the local newspaper said, and he then took his own life by jumping in front of a train. But when Mr. Olmos got to the block he found nothing: no police tape, no flowers, no candles….He is publishing his photographs in “The Landscape of Murder” (Dewi Lewis Publishing), offering a window into a side of his adopted hometown that even the natives don’t often realize.

Go click on that link. I scrolled through it, and from what I can tell this is what my blog might look like if I didn’t limit myself to one “Gun Death?” File a day.

Interesting and scary, and exactly why I fight so hard against the metric of “Gun Death”.

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties

Think of this before carving into your holiday roast!

A cow escaped from a slaughterhouse in this city Wednesday, killing a bystander, damaging vehicles and leading police on chase before being destroyed.

Employees of the city owned-slaughterhouse on the southeastern corner of San Luis Rio Colorado said the drama began around noon when the cow jumped over the railing of pen used to restrain it.

They are prey animals, and herbivores, but they’re also big and heavy and have more than enough power to kill a human.

Still not a “Gun Death” and those who tout that flawed metric will continue to eat beef without a thought of “Common Sense Regulation”.

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties

Those that use the metric of “Gun Death” cling to suicides because they make up the bulk of “Gun Deaths” in this nation. Still the majority suicides are ignored because they don’t fit the agenda.

A former Fortune 500 executive told police he was trying to kill himself when he drove his pickup truck across the grassy median of a New Hampshire highway on Saturday and slammed into an SUV. What happened instead: He killed an expectant couple inside, prosecutors said yesterday.

Horrible! That’s three lives lost, and one sad individual who will likely spend a long time in prison. Most of the times when I do this story I only wish that the victim had defended themselves, with a gun or otherwise. In this case I really wish this jerk had chosen a gun, or many other methods to end his life.

It was New Hampshire where the gun laws are lax, and this guy likely had enough money to buy a hi-point and a box of hollow points. You never hear of somebody attempting to shoot themselves and wiping out an entire family…

H/T Wallphone