Re: traditional american event ruined by gun nut

"Morton Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > nick wrote:
> >
> > > "The Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacy group notorious for its
lynchings
> > > of black people and those who favoured desegregation, has scored a
> > > spectacular own goal. One of its members has been critically injured
> after
> > > being struck by a bullet fired into the air during a Klan initiation
> > > ceremony."
> > >
> > > "About 10 people were present at the ceremony, in which a new member
was
> > > blindfolded, tied to a tree and shot with paint pellets of the kind
used
> > > by management training groups to build team spirit. In order to give
the
> > > event a more dramatic feel, one member, Gregory Freeman, 45, fired a
> real
> > > pistol with live ammunition straight up into the air."
> > >
> > > "It would appear that the Klan, always dismissive of the laws that
> > > entitled all citizens to vote and receive an education, also has
little
> > > respect for the law of gravity. The bullet, having gone straight up in
> the
> > > air came straight down and straight through the head of Jeffrey Murr,
> 24.
> > > It went through his skull, leaving him in critical condition"
> > >
> > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1093311,00.html
> >
> > The problem of dumbasses with guns will eventually solve itself.

And I won't be there for mort's funeral.