What This Country Needs Is More Guns

A new report by the federal monitor overseeing the Oakland Police Department officers pointed their weapons at a sleeping baby while executing a search warrant.

“Two officers pointed their firearms at a sleeping 19-month-old child who, of course, posed no immediate threat to the officers or others,” said the Jan. 30 report by Robert Warsaw. “The crime being investigated, according to the reports, involved a misdemeanor offense.”

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And, fortunately, not a terrible accident.

An Oregon man who was said to be “familiar with guns” accidentally shot himself with a holstered weapon that he was openly carrying at an Internet cafe in Eugene on Thursday.

Eugene Police said that a 26-year-old man was in the Indras Internet Lounge restroom at around 3 p.m. when his holstered gun discharged and hit him in the thigh.

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Luckily, it was only himself who got hit.

A 27-year-old Fort Hood soldier on Thursday pleaded guilty to accidentally killing his friend while trying to cure a case of the hiccups.

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Friends were drinking and watching a football game at an apartment in Killeen in September when Myers tried to cure the hiccups of 22-year-old Pfc. Isaac Lawrence Young by pointing a gun to his head and pulling the trigger to scare him.

Meyers said that he believed the gun had been loaded with dummy rounds.

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I guess we know where the real dummy was. 

Presumably this guy was well trained in the use of firearms.  And, presumably, so were the two policemen in Oakland.

Guns don't kill people.  Idiots with guns do.  Let's arm more and be safer.