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Did you know you can shoot yourself in the face with a shotgun and live? Apparently you can, and while I’m glad this guy is getting a second chance at life, he’s no victim in my opinion:

Richard Norris was just 22 years old when a shotgun accident left him horribly disfigured, with half his face blown off.

The 39-year-old underwent an incredibly complicated and risky procedure to have his face put back together, receiving teeth, a jaw and a tongue transplant from donors.

Richard knew he only had a 50 percent chance of surviving the surgery – but was determined to go through with it. The successful surgery made history, and is crucial in helping doctors understand how to help other victims of severe facial industries, like soldiers.

“A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world,” Richard told GQ Magazine.

Richard doesn’t remember exactly what happened the night he came home drunk, argued with his mother and said he was going to shoot himself. The gun went off accidentally, and his mother describes being rained on by bits and pieces of her son’s face. As a result of this incident, all the mirrors...

Apparently you need insurance if you have a gun range:

Shooting ranges in White City, Ore. are reopening after the National Rifle Association agreed to provide insurance coverage.

The 18 ranges were forced to close July 1 because their insurance carrier dropped coverage after a man filed a claim after he was injured by a piece of debris that flew back during target practice.

White City is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, about 10 miles north of Medford.

Phil Grammatica, president of the Rogue Valley Shooting Sports Association, said the NRA agreed to provide coverage as long as users sign a liability waiver before they target practice. The NRA insurance will cost less than $2,000 a year, compared with $6,700 under the canceled policy.

The waiver requires a printed name, signature, date and the day-pass number. However, no identification is required.

If the waiver isn’t signed, then using the range is considered theft of county property, Grammatica said.

According to the waiver, only cardboard targets are allowed and all safety rules must be followed. No glass, metal or rocks can be used as targets.

The waiver notes that the shooting ranges involve potentially hazardous and dangerous...

Here’s a headline you might see in a newspaper:

One of the advantages Americans have over other country is millions of gun owners that are ready to become cops. South African’s aren’t so lucky:

Another victory for the good guy with a gun:

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (July 27, 2014) –Three men break in to a home and end up coming face to face with the person living there.

At some point, police say gunfire was traded and one of the bad guys was killed. The two other guys took off after the gunfire erupted inside the home in the 3100 block of N. College Ave. Police did eventually find a person of interest, who’s being question.

Neighbors say the way their neighborhood is today is a total turnaround from the way it used to be.

“Drastically it’s changed,” said Damian Parrott. “Went from a pretty good neighborhood to now it’s not even safe to sit on your own porch or your own lot.”

If you have anything that could help police solve this investigation, call the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department or submit an anonymous tip through Central Indian Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.
Source: http://fox59.com/2014/07/27/gunfight-between-indianapolis-homeowner-and-burglars-one-suspect-dead/

With homeowners shooting criminals, I’m sure it will become a good neighborhood once again.

Unlike the video game, armed civilians don’t always get carjacked.

A day after a burglar ransacked her Garrard Street home, a 30-year-old woman fired 10 gunshots into her 2010 Jeep Wrangler late Friday to thwart a thief’s attempt to steal the vehicle.

It’s unknown if the would-be thief was wounded as the vehicle rolled next door to a home in Columbus.

“She emptied the magazine into the Jeep,” said Darrell Rhoaden, a neighbor. “It was pretty intense. I saw the guy in the vehicle. It was dark out. I think I saw him leaning away from the driver’s side or else he would be dead.”

Rhoaden said the vehicle theft attempt may have been related to a burglary at the home on Thursday. A slim man entered the home, ransacked the place and took a laptop. He apparently made off with her keys to the Jeep and returned around 10:05 p.m. Friday.

The woman’s home is right behind Rhoaden’s bedroom window.

“I heard her hollering, ‘What are you doing? I have a gun,’” he said.

Thinking his neighbor was in trouble, Rhoaden said he jumped up and looked out the window.

“I saw the Jeep rolling backward down the driveway,” he said. “I called the cops, then I heard the...

If you’re going hiking, don’t forget your gun:

MISSOULA, Mont. -

The following is a press release from Glacier National Park:

At approximately 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 26, park dispatch received notification from a park volunteer backcountry ranger of a hiker-bear incident on the Mt. Brown Lookout Trail, on the west side of the park. Initial investigation indicates that a 57-year old hiker from Texas was hiking alone on the Mt.Brown Lookout Trail when a bear charged him from an area below the trail. The hiker deployed his canister of bear spray and then discharged one round of his handgun. It is believed the bear was wounded, and ran away. The hiker then turned around and quickly hiked back to the trailhead, warning other hikers on the trail of the incident. The hiker met a park volunteer backcountry ranger on the trail, and the ranger notified park dispatch of the situation. The hiker received no physical injuries.

Park rangers immediately closed the trail and initiated an investigation. They staffed the trailhead to communicate the situation to other park visitors and began a search for the bear. Park rangers and bear specialists hiked from the trailhead, and were transported via helicopter to the summit of Mt. Brown, to...

Here’s a letter to the editor that pissed me off:

Do you want your doctor asking you if you own a gun? I don’t. Which is why this is a huge victory for us.

I wonder what Second Amendment Sisters has to say about this:

Vermont is an odd pro-gun blue state:

The Burlington City Council voted down an ordinance that would have required people to use carrying cases to transport toy or replica guns in public.

Reports about the proposal drew a huge outcry from people, many outside Burlington, who wrongly believed it would ban toy guns altogether.

Still, council members voted down the ordinance 4-1, saying it was too vague. Councilwoman Becky Shockley said the proposed rules might go too far in targeting young people.

Police Chief Doug Beaird suggested the ordinance because he said the department is getting more calls reporting young people carrying pistols or assault rifles, about 40 of them last year. He’s concerned that police officers or adults may not be able to tell whether a gun is real or fake and might shoot if they feel threatened.

“It’s a disaster waiting to happen,” he said.

The council asked him to work with Des Moines County Attorney Amy Beavers to try rewriting the ordinance.

Mayor Shane McCampbell, Beaird and other officials said they received hundreds of emails and calls, some using profanity and racial slurs, from people who opposed the ordinance. Many did not seem to understand what the ordinance was intended to do, he...

The American Psychological Association and other Psychiatric associations, are usually anti-gun. But some individual psychiatrists are pro-gun, and thanks to this armed headshrinker, a terrible tragedy was stopped before it escalated.

DARBY, Pa. (AP) — A psychiatrist who was grazed by gunfire from a patient at a hospital on Thursday helped stop the patient by using his own weapon to shoot and wound him, but not before a caseworker was killed, authorities said.

The patient opened fire after entering Dr. Lee Silverman’s office at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital with the caseworker, District Attorney Jack Whelan said. Witnesses reported hearing yelling before the gunshots.

Silverman told police the patient fatally shot the caseworker before he pulled out his own gun and exchanged fire with the patient. Whelan said the psychiatrist, “from all accounts, would have acted in self-defense.”

The doctor, who suffered a wound to his head, “faced a situation where his life was in jeopardy,” Whelan said. He was interviewed by detectives late Thursday.

The hospital has a policy barring anyone except on-duty law enforcement officers from carrying weapons anywhere on its campus, a spokeswoman for the Mercy Health System said.<...