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This is a really sad story:

Police said just after noon Friday, two suspects robbed an elderly man after pulling him outside his home and beating him senseless with a pipe.

The homeowner was unconscious on his porch for almost 24 hours.

Officers said he finally woke up around 2:30 p.m. Saturday and dragged himself inside to call 911.

“He really doesn`t even have anything to steal. I`m just in shock that this happened,” neighbor Joel Ortiz said.

Joel Ortiz said he knows his neighbor as “Tony,” saying he is a devout Buddhist monk and a good friend.

He was horrified when he found out what happened.

“I did peek in the ambulance as they were fixing to leave,” he said. “I didn’t know it was even going on until I saw the ambulance and stuff here. Black eyes, all his teeth knocked out, beaten badly.”

Sounds like “Tony” was a pacifist and would have simply given up anything the thieves wanted. Looks like what they REALLY wanted was to cave another man’s head in.

It sounds like the monk will make a recovery, but he was already impoverished and cares for abandoned animals on his farm, the medical bills and recovery will likely leave him totally destitute and dependent on his neighbors.

While I support and respect his pacifist religious beliefs, I don’t at all agree with them. When a bad man, or a group of bad men attack and attempt to kill a good man, I don’t think the good man should be harmed.

I would be MUCH happier if this story ended with a “Gun Death” or even a PAIR of “Gun Deaths”. Meanwhile the anti-rights people are fine with this. No guns in anybody’s hands, and a weak old man being beaten nearly to death by some evil young men. This is “Utopia” to them.

I actually went to high school with a girl who did something very similar:

Louisville, Kentucky, police say a woman gave birth in the bathroom of the Kohl’s clothing store where she worked, then left the newborn girl in a trash can where another worker later found the child dead.

Thankfully with my former classmate’s baby was discovered before any lasting harm was done, but a young baby in a cold toilet filled with water doesn’t stand long for this world. The court actually charged her with assault with a dangerous weapon, where the weapon was the toilet and toilet paper used to conceal him.

Thankfully that baby was not only saved, but put into foster care rather than being returned to ANY of his immediate family. I am so sad for this baby, there are so many who would LOVE an unwanted baby no matter what the circumstances.

But why am I upset? This isn’t a “Gun Death”! Only “Gun Death” counts, right?

h/t Wallphone

But not how you’d expect:

A 9-year-old southern Utah girl is dead after a strong wind gust picked up the backyard trampoline she was sitting on and sent it flying more than 150 feet.

Wow, super sad. I know a ton of people who have injured themselves in various ways on trampolines. As a guy who owns guns, just like a backyard pool, a trampoline is something that is simply not worth the risk.

This is new about wind throwing the trampoline.

Things are just dangerous.

H/T Wallphone