well not exactly, but equally ridiculous and SAD.
I am from St. Louis and I often read the local paper to keep up with the Cards and Blues. I read yesterday about a man who was shot and killed in a bar over a dog's weight.
This reads like a joke, but sadly its deadly serious.....a guy walks into a bar and sits down. The guy next to him says he has a 290 lb German Shepard. The new guy at the bar said something to the effect of BS. Later when the BS guy was leaving he put his arm on the other guys shoulder and said hey no hard feelings re the dog. Seems the guy had some hard feelings and pulled his concealed handgun and fired 5 rounds. The first round hit some other guy at the sports bar, the second missed and the 3rd 4th and 5th round hit the guy in the chest and killed him. link to full story below
killed over dogs weight
Now we get to the punch line.....it took the St. Louis DA 3 weeks to decide to charge the shooter. St. Louis has very strong stand your ground laws and concealed carry. Thank you NRA (lots of sarcasm). It took weeks of reviewing video and interviewing other witnesses in the bar to decide whether or not to charge the shooter. Who knows what a jury will decide but there was a point in time not that long ago where justice would have been obvious---when an unarmed man says hey no hard feelings and you shoot and kill him you go to jail. Yea maybe its second degree murder or even manslaughter and not first degree murder but this should be like when you get run into from behind in a car---it's always the person who hits you from behind fault, no discussion.
The moral of this story is vote for life, free speech, and free association. Vote anti-NRA and be able to go to a bar and not worry if the guy next to you is going to start shooting because -----well who knows maybe he is just not having a good day or maybe he really (really, really) cares about his fatso's dog's self image. Its really important that it not be legal to shoot someone because you are afraid.
Important fact of the day---while the NRA keeps its membership secret (warning sign) the best guess is about 5m members. The US population is about 325M. That is about 1.5% of the US population. Come on 98.5% of the US population lets make our voices and pocket books heard.
On the pocket book front, Dick's Sporting Goods has gone way out on a limb and decided not to sell assault style weapons (AR-15s and such) along with some other self imposed limits. Yea. When I need to buy something and they sell it they will get my purchase. And they will need the support, because you can be sure the NRA will go at them with all guns blazing.
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