Weer'd World

Sometimes “Gun Death” stories are really sad. Others make me pleased:

Pierce County prosecutors say four men and a woman with ties to a white supremacist prison gang murdered a fellow member for violating the gang’s code of conduct….”This is a case of white supremacists killing one of their own,” Lindquist said in a news release. “The victim was murdered for violating the gang’s own code.”

Five of these racist gang killed another racist gang member, and hopefully they’ll all go to jail where maybe they’ll be housed with black inmates who may not agree with their politics.

Trash killing trash, I’m not too broken up about this. It is also not a “Gun Death” so this won’t be used as a bludgeon against lawful gun owners who would use their guns to shoot monsters like the animals they are as they commit a hate crime.

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