Man gets 33yrs 4 kill sparked by hotsauc

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Fri, 06-12-2009 - 2:47pm
Man gets 33 years for killing sparked by hot sauce

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for killing a man during a melee that erupted when someone threw a bottle of hot sauce.


The Kansas City Star reports that 29-year-old Jarvis T. Williams was sentenced Thursday for his convictions on second-degree murder, three counts of assault and four counts of armed criminal action.


Prosecutors claim he fired more than 20 rounds from an assault rifle into a car in October 2005, killing 22-year-old Gary Scott and wounding three others.


Prosecutors said the victim had thrown a bottle of hot sauce at a woman's car, angering Williams.


Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com


Remainder of article at http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_hot_sauce_killing.html

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Sat, 06-13-2009 - 7:05pm

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Sat, 06-13-2009 - 11:15pm

What round is this one?!

Background checks do nothing to catch the person without priors who buys a weapon to go down in a blaze of hate and gratuitous violence--taking as many with him (or less frequently "her") as possible before being caught or killed. Nor, as you point out, will it catch owners who purchased their weapons before background checks were instituted.

As regards a reporter's use of the phrase "assault rifle", I am guessing that they don't have to know the difference between a Red Ryder BB gun and anything else. Most reporters get their information about crime details from police spokespeople. Getting to the scene of the crime before police themselves and making identification of the crime weapon would probably not happen that often.

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Sat, 06-13-2009 - 11:25pm

According to the dweebs at Princeton WordNet, an "assault rifle" is "any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use". http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=assault%20rifle

Yes, our opinions regarding RKBA vary tremendously. Good to know we can wrangle still and be mostly civil (you're wrong, I'm right ;-O)

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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 2:13am

You said dweeb, not me.

 


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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 2:17am

Pick a number, I'll sign off on it.


Whether it's the reporters or police, sloppy use of terminology does nobody any favors as it leads to all sorts of misunderstandings and misconceptions about the issues they're reporting on.

 


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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 9:59am

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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 2:01pm

While mullet has a point about being scrupulous in using words, I think the purpose of the phrase "assault rifle" in the OP was to highlight the sheer rate of fire and the lethality of the ammo used.

The NRA has lobbied ceaselessly to keep restrictions minimal/nonexistent on firearms. Makes NO sense for civilians to have access to such powerful weapons as that which was used in the OP, regardless of the terminology used.

Edited to change a noun for the sake of variety




Edited 6/14/2009 2:06 pm ET by jabberwocka

Jabberwocka

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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 4:02pm

"Makes NO sense for civilians to have access to such powerful weapons as that which was used in the OP, regardless of the terminology used."


I agree.


(An unwarranted firing of any firearm at someone is an "assault" IMO.)

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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 4:38pm

Utter nonsense...


 


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Sun, 06-14-2009 - 4:44pm

Looks like a somewhat organized attempt to further confuse the issue by calling two seperate types of weapons the exact same thing.

 


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