Gunman @ NC nursing home kills 8

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Mon, 03-30-2009 - 1:57pm

Gunman at North Carolina nursing home kills eight


WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a nursing home in a small North Carolina town on Sunday, killing eight people, including elderly patients in wheelchairs, local authorities said.


A 45-year-old local man was arrested and faced eight counts of first-degree murder after the shooting at the retirement care home in Carthage, about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh.


"There are eight dead," Moore County District Attorney Maureen Krueger told a news conference. Neither she nor other officials were able to immediately offer a motive for the killings in what was the third major shooting incident in the southeastern United States this month.


Those killed at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center in Carthage, which offered care for the elderly and Alzheimer's sufferers, included seven patients in their 70s, 80s and 90s, and one 39-year-old staff member, officials said.


"The shooter entered the facility heavily armed and began shooting at people in wheelchairs," WRAL News quoted North Carolina state Senator Harris Blake as saying.


  Remainder of article:  http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52S1V320090330


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Mon, 04-06-2009 - 6:41pm

Wondered how much time would elapse before you would.......errrrr.....ummmm....”be dragged”* into this thread.

There are cases and places where the right to shoot in defense of one’s property, family, or self has been questioned.
See: http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S484301.shtml
Clearly, the concepts of “legal” and “self-defense” were open to debate and had more than a little ambiguity.

My children were in high school at the time of Columbine. About a year or two earlier, a rather volatile and confrontational student on the bus they rode, talked about bringing a firearm on the last day of school. When our children told us of his talk, DH and I wondered whether or not to notify the bus company and the school. We decided to err on the side of caution and reported the student and his threats.

Thankfully, nothing came of the episode but I maintain that RKBA has not made the nation safer--and Columbine is a prime example of "why". You and I will probably continue to debate this, most likely without either of us budging one micrometer. I still consider you to be a friend.

* by whom, precisely? ;-),

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Mon, 04-06-2009 - 6:52pm

Hey now, I showed remarkable restraint here.

 


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Mon, 04-06-2009 - 11:47pm


The most recent spate of shootings seem to have a single common theme:

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