America the shoot-iful

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An ex-Marine wearing military clothing opened fire on more than a dozen co-workers at a New Jersey supermarket early Friday, killing two of them and himself, authorities said.
damn good thing that he killed himself before the cops got there or there could have been a hell of a lot more people shot and wounded.
 
combat vets need to go through decompression and mental health reviews before they are discharged

the kind of warfare with no front lines is particularly hard on fighters

especially when you are fighting in an area where the people that you are 'protecting' may be the enemy and may turn on you at any minute

There are several meanings for the word "decompression"; but you seem to have found a new description.
Would you kindly show this new interpretation?
 
Another post in this thread dedicated with love to chronicling the accomplishments of America's armed citizenry.





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A man was shot and killed early Sunday morning in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia, police said.



http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...t_to_death_Sunday_morning_in_Feltonville.html
 
You started a thread and made the title something like "Gun laws at work". The OP was about a convictwed felon who hurt himself with a firearm. Given that he couldn't legally own the firearm, how was that about gun laws??

So you're claiming that a thread about someone violating a gun law isn't about gun laws?
 
This is a thread dedicated to honoring the marksmanship of America's law enforcement professionals.


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A U.S. Army medic from Chicago who had been deployed twice to Iraq was fatally shot by Tacoma, Wash., police who were responding to a domestic violence call...



Sgt. Prince Gavin, originally of Chicago, had been stationed at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord...



The police chief said initial indications were that the officer acted reasonably and within department guidelines for using deadly force.



It’s the second time the officer has been involved in a shooting...






http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...hot-by-tacoma-police-20120902,0,1975907.story
 
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One man was killed and another injured in an officer-involved shooting in Vallejo early Sunday morning, police said.

Two men were spotted sitting inside a vehicle, police said.

The officers turned on their patrol car spotlights to illuminate the suspects' vehicle.

The driver got out and the officers reported seeing the butt of a handgun in his waistband, police said.

The man -- partially obscured by the open door of his car -- reached for the gun and began to turn toward the officers, police said.

Believing he was going to shoot, the officers fired their weapons at the suspect, who remained crouched behind the car door.

The man did not comply with officers' demands to show his hands, and instead reached into the vehicle toward the center console, police said.

The officers fired 30 rounds and the driver slumped over.

The driver, 23-year-old Mario Ramiro, was taken to the Kaiser Permanente’s Vallejo campus where he later died.

The passenger, 21-year-old Joseph Johnson, was struck by a bullet or shrapnel in the buttocks and transported to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he underwent surgery from being shot five times.




http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/vallejo-police-shoot-two-men-after-they-allegedly-/nR2M4/
 
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http://www.northjersey.com/patersonPaterson police killed a man in his home after he made a move while holding a hammer that officers had ordered him to drop...


Hours earlier in North Bergen, police killed a man who’d slit his own throat with glass from a broken liquor bottle, then tried to attack officers.



http://www.northjersey.com/news/Paterson_man_fatally_shot_in_confrontation_with_police.html
 
Mark Eric Henderson Jr. saw his opportunity to escape from the Woodbury motel room where he and seven other people were being held hostage early Friday, and he took it.

When the gunman who had been tormenting the group told Henderson to go to the window to see if any police were outside, Henderson took his chance and made a beeline for the door. The kidnapper opened fire at him in response but missed. As Henderson bolted out the door toward them, Woodbury police opened fire and cut him down.

http://www.startribune.com/local/east/168280126.html?refer=y
 
Mark Eric Henderson Jr. saw his opportunity to escape from the Woodbury motel room where he and seven other people were being held hostage early Friday, and he took it. When the gunman who had been tormenting the group told Henderson to go to the window to see if any police were outside, Henderson took his chance and made a beeline for the door. The kidnapper opened fire at him in response but missed. As Henderson bolted out the door toward them, Woodbury police opened fire and cut him down. http://www.startribune.com/local/east/168280126.html?refer=y

If only Winterborn had been there.
 
Gun helps doom family

In the days before his wife and children were shot to death, Christopher Vaughn dropped thousands of dollars at a strip club, stayed out until early morning and twice took target practice at a gun range, according to testimony at Vaughn’s murder trial.



Jurors also heard about dozens of emails written by Vaughn’s wife that portrayed her as a thoughtful woman who had an uneasiness about guns, cherished her relationship with her husband and was busy balancing school while raising their three children.



Vaughn is on trial on charges that he killed his family — wife Kimberly; daughters Abigayle, 12, and Cassandra, 11; and son Blake, 8 — in June 2007 in the family SUV because he wanted to start a new life in the Canadian wilderness.



The owner of the Mega Sports gun shop and shooting range in Plainfield testified that Vaughn twice used the range, including the night before the murders.



Surveillance video played for the jury showed Vaughn entering the store.



Vaughn showed a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification Card to an attendant and signed in using his own name, then spent about 20 minutes firing what appeared to be a handgun at a target off the screen.




The killings took place early the next morning after Vaughn is alleged to have awakened his family with a promise of traveling to a water park in Springfield.




http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/2012/08/24/alleged-killer-spent-time-money-at-strip-club-before-his-family-was-shot-to-death/a2gvsy6/?page=2
 
Police said a man was reading in his suburban St. Louis home when he heard a gunshot, then found his wife and two children dead in other rooms of their house in what authorities suspect was a murder-suicide.



Officers were called to the large house in the western suburb of Glendale after the man found the bodies of his wife, 11-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter.



He called 911 shortly before 11 a.m., and police found each of the victims had gunshot wounds.



Investigators believe the woman shot the children before turning the gun on herself...





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/mitch-murch-reading-gunshot-family-dead_n_1723012.html
 
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