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Sunday, April 26, 2009

It just keeps happening

Just some of the headlines this morning:

3 injured in shooting at Hampton University in Va.
Officials: 2 Fla. sheriff's deputies fatally shot
Net cast for US prof suspected in fatal shootings

Here's the first one:

HAMPTON, Va. - Three people at Hampton University were hospitalized after a shooting in a dorm, a spokeswoman for the school said Sunday.

Police believe the shooter is a former student who was one of the three injured early Sunday, spokeswoman Yuri Rodgers Milligan said.

In the second:

CRESTVIEW, Fla. - A man accused of beating his wife killed two north Florida sheriff's deputies who caught up with him at a shooting range, then fled across the county line, where he died in an exchange of gunfire with deputies, authorities said.

The third:

ATHENS, Georgia - Authorities from Georgia to Texas had little to go on Sunday as they searched for a University of Georgia professor suspected of shooting his ex-wife and two other men to death outside a theater near campus.

Neighbors watched Saturday as SWAT team members, guns drawn, swarmed their tidy middle-class suburb about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from the campus looking for 57-year-old George Zinkhan.

My point?

That's a lot of stories--3--for one Sunday morning, all concerning people with guns, going on rampages.

We simply have too many guns, they're way too easy to get and we're much too violent a culture.

It's not even Summer yet.

Wait until the combination of heat,humidity, unemployment, anger and guns comes together.

I wouldn't want to be a police officer this year.


Link to stories:
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20090426/49f3dc40_3421_1334520090426261909398
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20090426/49f3dc40_3ca6_1552620090426-849977251
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20090426/49f3dc40_3426_13350200904262125072383

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