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Hammers….they kill more people than rifles!

A Tampa-Bay area man who authorities say attacked his neighbor with a hammer has been charged with second degree murder with a weapon….Authorities say Brooks approached Jonathan Acree from behind at a Thonotosassa trailer park, striking him in the head and neck multiple times with a hammer.

Acree was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The sheriff’s office SWAT team was called to the home where Brooks was barricaded. Authorities say he surrendered after tear gas was shot into the mobile home. There was no one else in the trailer.

The SWAT team didn’t seem to think this hammer was simply harmless. But there are no calls for banning hammers, even tho the guns that people are attempting to ban take less lives than they do.

Its almost like people who cite “Gun Death” are full of shit.

I wish the end wasn’t so tragic, so I could chuckle over this.

Eamonn Kilbride, 46, was performing the energetic dance by Korean popstar PSY at the Thwaites Brewery party in Blackburn, Lancashire when he suddenly fell to the ground.

Given the location, I suspect alcohol played a big roll in all of this. We can transpose this over to American history and unintended consequences. People were upset by the social issues with excessive drinking in the US so we banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. From that we had a massive, and bloody crime syndicate created with the sole purpose of distributing illegal alcohol to the people. It killed and harmed far more people than the booze ever did. So we repealed the law and amended the constitution and never looked back.

Today the people who cite “Gun Death” are the modern Temperance Movement. Let’s not let that mistake happen with our guns.

h/t Bob

Attorney beaten into a coma!

Dallas police are asking for the public’s help in finding whoever beat a corporate attorney so badly that he is now in a medically induced coma….According to online updates posted by his sister, Falgoust is in a medically induced coma with multiple skull fractures and severe bleeding on his brain.

Dallas police said they don’t believe robbery was a motive for the attack because Falgoust still had his cellphone and wallet on him at the hospital.

No word on if this beating was with a weapon, or with bare hands and feet. My Father-in-Law was a criminal attorney for the first part of his life. Part of the job was putting bad people in prison for horrible crimes. What came with this was death threats on him and his family. Since he practiced in Vermont it simply meant he could drop his .357 into his pocket without need to demand permission from his government. He never needed to pull the gun.

I wish this guy had had a gun, as nobody deserves this. Hey, but we need to ban guns, right?

h/t Bob