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The title reflects the level of “Gun Death” of this story:

A man ate cleanser that he apparently collected slowly while in custody and died while awaiting trial in the killings of four homeless men and two others, his lawyer said.

The lawyer, Michael Molfetta, who was briefed on the death, said Friday that the incident raises serious questions about Orange County jail deputies’ supervision of Itzcoatl Ocampo, who was mentally ill.

Ocampo, a 25-year-old former Marine, was found shaking and vomiting in his single-man cell Wednesday and taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead a day later, sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said.

I must say, it sounds like this suicide could have only been avoided by not allowing inmate to have jobs in prison. I’m not versed in this subject, but I suspect listless inmates are probably MORE violent to other prisoners, as well as guards if they have jobs to help pass the day and give their lives a little more meaning while incarcerated. A powdered cleaner is easy to conceal just about anywhere, and if he collected little bits over time, this is down right impossible to detect by any reasonable means.

And why was he in jail?

He was charged in January 2012 with four counts of murder, with special allegations of multiple murders, lying in wait and use of a deadly weapon. Three victims were stabbed more than 40 times each with a single-edged blade at least 7 inches long. In one instance, prosecutors, said, Ocampo selected as his next victim a homeless man who was featured in a Los Angeles Times story about the killings.

Note this is California where they have strict gun control laws to limit “Gun Death”. Also its not the tool its the person:

Ocampo, who was discharged from the Marines in 2010, also was facing murder charges in the deaths of a school friend’s mother and brother in October 2011.

There are monsters among us, and private weapons are used to defend against these monsters. These beasts are who the “Gun Death” crowd want to rule the streets.

H/T Wallphone

What’s interesting is that before gun powder came to the West, the Crossbow was the so-called “Assault Weapon” of its time. They were able to fire a bolt more accurately and much more powerfully than the earlier hand-drawn bow, and this power meant they were quite dangerous to armored knights who before could decimate entire villages of unarmored peasants. Just like the modern firearm’s threat to the government monopoly of force, the crossbow was often outlawed for civilian possession.

Today, because of the opponents for freedom’s fixation on “Gun Death” are largely overlooked.

A South Florida man used a crossbow to kill his wife and teenage son in their townhouse, tried to kill a second son who is a student at Florida State University and wound up dead in a motel bathroom, authorities said Wednesday.

This has a lot of angles for the “Gun Death” crowd to ignore. First they’ve been harping that we need full civilian disarmament because guns cause or exacerbate domestic violence. Of course they fixate on “Gun Death” which this also wasn’t. Further look at all the deadly implements in this story. He killed two people with the bow, then when he missed the 3rd person he attempted to strangle him. Lastly he finished himself off with a knife.

Just because they fixate on “Gun Death” don’t think these people will walk away happy with a total fantasy ban on guns. Just like the UK they will ban sporting equipment and knives as well. We need to fight them, and fight them hard, because they promise us a safe world that has never, and will never exist. What they are building is actually a prison!

H/T Bob And

This one comes with apologies from Whipped Cream Difficulties.

A toddler died and her mother was injured Tuesday night when a tree branch broke and fell on them as the woman pushed her daughter in a stroller in Tomball.

The incident occurred about 8 p.m. outside a business at Crescent and Quinn, said Capt. Rick Grassi, spokesman for the Tomball Police Department.

Grassi said the woman was pushing her 18-month-old baby in a stroller to an event at the business when a 20-foot-long branch gave way and fell on them. Both were severely injured.

God, I’ve covered a ton of “Gun Deaths” of young children, and this is probably the one that hits me the hardest. In the past they’ve involved monstrous human beings so broken that the part of them that could never hurt a baby just doesn’t work, or massive acts of god like floods or storms, or at least instances where some well-meaning person does something stupid or negligent.

We had a massive branch fall down near us this summer, but even that was in a heavy downpour, and it was a weak branch, now covered with what was likely several hundred pounds of raindrops, and all it took was one squirrel walking out to the end to supply enough leverage to bring what amounted to half a tree down into the road.

Thankfully nobody was hurt. In this case it couldn’t have been very bad weather, otherwise they wouldn’t have been out. I’ve spend enough time in the woods to have seen more than a few big branches, and at least one large tree topple for what appears from a distance to be no reason at all. Its kind of interesting when you’re just out in the quiet of nature. It becomes horrible when I think that I or my baby might be under it.

The post was sent with apologies, but frankly it was interesting to write about for the “Gun Death?” Files.

Its sad that he died this way….

While heartbroken fans of Fast and Furious poster boy Paul Walker grieve over the actor’s gruesome death in a fatal Saturday car crash, high-performance automobile aficionados and industry experts have turned their attention to the car involved in the accident: A 2005 red Porsche Carrera GT.

he sleek Carrera GT’s appeal is obvious: It can reach a 60-mph sprint in a mere 3.8 seconds, and 100 mph in 6.9 seconds. But the car’s rear-mid engine design (meaning that the gas tank is located just in front of the passenger’s compartment—Walker was riding shotgun at the time of the accident) puts the car at an increased risk for a fatal crash and fire. ”The dangerous part is that it requires immense skill to drive, and is tremendously unforgiving,” says Doug DeMuro, a former manager at Porsche North America. He adds: “It’s hard to understand the car’s limits because it’s unlike virtually any other car on the road, and it’ll respond in ways other cars won’t.”

The Carrera GT is an insane super car, meaning that it has so much power that its easy to get overwhelmed and lose control. Still such an expensive and limited production car, such accidents are amazingly rare.

Still people want to blame the car, rather than the driver who went beyond where he should have gone.

Not a “Gun Death” at all!

H/T Wallphone