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One might assume if you are a champion fighter you don’t NEED a gun.

Phoenix police have made two arrests in connection with the beating death of a 17-year-old national champion boxer.

Police say Alexis Urbina was found unconscious and covered in blood in his family’s south Phoenix home in September. He died of his injures two days later.

There was no obvious sign of forced entry into the house, but Urbina’s family told police some of his boxing memorabilia was missing.

Really sad, but it shows what a “Gun Free Utopia” might look like.

Pretty Crazy Accident:

Festival-goers can be seen on a video dancing to electronic music and cheering as a man becomes engulfed in flames during West Hollywood’s annual Halloween carnival.

Gilbert Estrada, 51, later died. The video posted on YouTube shows him lying unresponsive after the fire was extinguished. Detectives say it appears Estrada may have accidentally started the fire while trying to light a cigarette.
As Estrada flails, some bystanders can be heard cheering. Others help put out the flames. One bystander recorded the scene with a cellphone camera and posted it on the video website. …Estrada was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead Friday morning, said Lt. Cheryl MacWillie of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

Estrada, whose family told police that he attended the festival every year, was dressed as a sniper in camouflage, Biddle said. The costume apparently was made of burlap sacks and straw.

“It’s really thin and flammable,” Biddle said. “That stuff could ignite pretty fast.”

So it looks like poor flame safety with an unsafe Ghillie suit, and now, sadly this man is dead.

Does it make a difference that he wasn’t shot? It does to those who tout “Gun Death” as a relevant metric.

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties

In Norway where their gun laws mean a crazy with a knife is a force to be reckoned with:

Norwegian police say a knife-wielding man hijacked a bus and killed three people on board, including the bus driver.

Police in western Norway say the suspect, described as a man in his 50s, has been arrested.

This again would be a “Mass Shooting” that would make national news, but since it was a knife attack it isn’t a “Gun Death” so it isn’t relevant!

What’s more dangerous, a gun, or somebody unarmed who’s completely psychotic?

A Bothell woman pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder for her mother’s beating death….Davidson called 911 in October of 2012 asking for psychiatric help. Officers found 81-year-old Lila Donaldson dying of a head wound. She had been struck with a heavy glass mug.

This is one of the big reasons why I do the “Gun Death?” Files. All this attention on guns and “Gun Death” is ignoring the real problem of dangerously violent people. Yes sometimes these psychopaths get a hold of a gun to do their horrors, but other times its nothing more than a beer mug.

Doesn’t make this woman any less dead, no matter what the “Gun Death” fanatics say.