Another major school shooting today ... Newtown, Conn

Frank Apisa wrote:

FOX "News" is to news...what White Castle hamburgers are to haute cuisine!

You have something against White Castle?

.Are you so much a snob that you would not eat there?

I don't really care for all of the Infotainment and Opinion shows on FOX, but FOX NEWS is much better than the many alternative 'news' outlets.

I'm sure you think Chris Mathews and MSNBC are the news equivalent of haute
cuisine, even though they constantly score an F- from the health inspector.

Eat well my friend, consume mass quantities.

Fox News is so radical that it has slipped your notice. It tickles your tummy whilst undermining you.

I am reasonably familiar with the UK's news outlets, and with the exception of the BBC and the Guardian (and perhaps Channel 4 News), the lot of them are a cesspool of made up lies that are 1000 times worse than anything that Fox News has ever been accused of.

Oralboy has delivered a masterclass in ignorance.

For a start it's very hard to believe that someone with such a limited vocabulary has even heard of, let alone read The Guardian,

If you compare like with like, just broadcast media, he gives a reluctant thumbs up to the BBC and Channel 4 whilst castigating the rest. For some reason he has a problem with ITN News, but not with ITN's Channel 4 News. What's even more amusing is that he describes Murdoch's Sky News as, 'a cesspool of made up lies that are 1000 times worse than anything that Fox News has ever been accused of,' forgetting that Murdoch's Sky News is legally obliged to be unbiased, but Murdoch's Fox News can broadcast what the hell it wants.

izzythepush wrote:

Oralboy has delivered a masterclass in ignorance.

This is where me and izzythepush differ. I can not find any value in calling people ignorant even if I think that they may be.

izzythepush wrote:

For a start it's very hard to believe that someone with such a limited vocabulary has even heard of, let alone read The Guardian,

Another attack on human beings that I also disagree with often but how is this being emotional intelligent? Let me guess izzy has not yet found value in emotional intelligence? I think that if he understood it he would apply it so this is no attack on Izzy because I find it to be intellectual retarded to attack others.

izzythepush wrote:

If you compare like with like, just broadcast media, he gives a reluctant thumbs up to the BBC and Channel 4 whilst castigating the rest. For some reason he has a problem with ITN News, but not with ITN's Channel 4 News. What's even more amusing is that he describes Murdoch's Sky News as, 'a cesspool of made up lies that are 1000 times worse than anything that Fox News has ever been accused of,' forgetting that Murdoch's Sky News is legally obliged to be unbiased, but Murdoch's Fox News can broadcast what the hell it wants.

I have not studied or researched what you said here in depth but I do know that my own mother agrees with some of his tactics even though I think she is naive, I still love her and if she is wrong I do not think she means to be.

5-year-old fatally shoots 2-year-old sister
1 hr ago |By Associated Press
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BURKESVILLE, Ky. — Authorities in southern Kentucky say a 2-year-old girl has been accidentally shot and killed by her 5-year-old brother, who was playing with a .22-caliber rifle he received as a gift.

Kentucky State Police said the toddler was shot just after 1 p.m. CDT Tuesday in Cumberland County and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the children's mother was at home at the time.

White told the newspaper that the boy received the rifle made for youths last year and is used to shooting it. He said the gun was kept in a corner and the family didn't realize a shell was left inside it.

White said the shooting will be ruled accidental.

An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.

A Pennsylvania man was killed Saturday when -- after a night of drinking -- he demonstrated for his wife how to operate a semiautomatic pistol.

“I shot him,” Michele Wanko, 42, told a Parkside Police officer when authorities arrived at the house around 4:00 a.m., the Delco Times reports. Authorities found Wanko's husband, 43-year-old Michael, lying near the entrance with a gunshot wound to the upper chest.

The couple had spent the night sipping vodka and lemonade when Michele asked for a gun lesson so she could protect herself, according to CBS. They went down to the basement where Michael stored his guns in a safe as their sons, 2 and 5, slept upstairs.

“He took several of the weapons out, handguns and was demonstrating to her how the weapon worked as far as taking the magazine out, making sure it was safe, and how to pull the slide back,” said Parkside Police Chief John Egan, according to NBC Philadelphia.

Michele picked up a gun but when she pulled the slide back, as she was taught, the weapon went off, striking her husband. Michael was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Crozer-Chester Medical Center.

"Why, after six-and-a-half hours of drinking, would you go down and handle a gun, especially with someone who never shot a weapon before?" Egan said, according to Philly.com. "The real big common denominator is the alcohol and it ended up costing him his life."

Michele was charged with involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and possessing an instrument of crime. The children are staying with relatives.

Objectives

In the United States, injury is a leading cause of alcohol-related death, and alcohol use is the leading risk factor for injury. We reviewed state and federal legislation regulating the intersection of alcohol and firearms.


Methods

We examined the current criminal codes of all 50 states and the District of Columbia using the databases Westlaw and LexisNexis to review restrictions on firearm use while intoxicated.


Results

We found three types of laws in 26 states that restrict firearm use by intoxicated people: sales or transfers are restricted in six states, carrying of concealed weapons is restricted in four states, and possession or discharge of a firearm while intoxicated is restricted in 20 states.


Conclusions

Regulation of the carrying and use of firearms by acutely intoxicated individuals may represent a public health opportunity to reduce firearm-related injury.

Can't believe I agree with you on anything, but goes to show. I agree.

Unless you want to harm others, booze does not mix well with driving, voting and shooting.

Unless you want to harm others, booze does not mix well with driving, voting and shooting.