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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Solus on January 05, 2013, 06:47:19 AM
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A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/woman-hiding-kids-shoots-intruder/nTm7s/
Some discussion of the wounds and damage. Just a single incident, but relevant.
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Five out of six hits. Better than most police shootings.
Here's my favorite part:
He said if Slater survives the night, doctors will try to operate in the morning to repair the damage.
;D
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No bystanders hit. Good job.
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Same metro area. Reverse story. Women on phone with police shot trying to hide from burgers.
http://www.11alive.com/News/Crime/270922/445/South-Fulton-woman-shot-in-home-invasion-- (http://www.11alive.com/News/Crime/270922/445/South-Fulton-woman-shot-in-home-invasion--)
FAIRBURN, Ga. -- A Fulton County woman is recovering after being shot multiple times during a Thursday night home invasion on Estonian Drive.
According to Fulton County Police Det. Melissa Parker, the victim, 54-year-old Melissa Burke, called 911 at around 11:50 p.m. Thursday. Burke told the operator she could hear someone breaking into her home, and she was hiding in
Parker says the suspects found Burke in the closet and shot her several times. She was transported to Atlanta Medical Center and is listed in stable condition.
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Story said 5 out of 6 hit the perp in the face and neck.
Good grouping for a shooter under stress.
Perp was a true scumbag.
Mom is a true hero.
Crusader
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Story said 5 out of 6 hit the perp in the face and neck.
Good grouping for a shooter under stress.
Perp was a true scumbag.
Mom is a true hero.
Crusader
No...the story was misleading....farther in it talked about...
Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri learned from Chapman late Friday night that slater has been placed on a ventilator and suffers from punctured lungs, a punctured liver and a punctured stomach.
and 4 exit wounds.
But Mom did good.
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Of course, Saturday noon news is always slow, but WSBTV (Atlanta) ran with the story near the top of the broadcast. Showed the interview with the husband explaining how his wife did exactly as trained. Take refuge, call 911, shoot as last resort. "A good gun owner." I believe is what the husband said.
Too bad they didn't run the contrasting story right after it, explaining how another woman, retreated, call 911, but didn't have a gun, so she was shot by the intruder.
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Of course, Saturday noon news is always slow, but WSBTV (Atlanta) ran with the story near the top of the broadcast. Showed the interview with the husband explaining how his wife did exactly as trained. Take refuge, call 911, shoot as last resort. "A good gun owner." I believe is what the husband said.
Too bad they didn't run the contrasting story right after it, explaining how another woman, retreated, call 911, but didn't have a gun, so she was shot by the intruder.
They will not run a story that's going to conflict with their agenda - to disarm the people because guns are bad. We don't want the public to realize that guns do save lives.
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No...the story was misleading....farther in it talked about...
Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri learned from Chapman late Friday night that slater has been placed on a ventilator and suffers from punctured lungs, a punctured liver and a punctured stomach.
and 4 exit wounds.
But Mom did good.
I bet that the lung, liver, and stomach injuries were most likely from crashing his car. I suspect he didn't have his seat belt fastened.
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I bet that the lung, liver, and stomach injuries were most likely from crashing his car. I suspect he didn't have his seat belt fastened.
Oh...that could be.
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Or one shot each to the face, neck, stomach, liver, and lung? We'll probably never find out for sure.
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Or one shot each to the face, neck, stomach, liver, and lung? We'll probably never find out for sure.
You are most likely right that we will never find out for sure.
Way back in the day, I got a university degree in journalism--I worked as a newspaper writer for about 6 months then transferred to the advertising sales side of the business for the extra cash potential.
However, all through j-school, and throughout my brief tenure with the San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune, it was stressed that anything I reported as true had to be absolutely verifiable. Guesses were not allowed. Suppositions were not allowed. If I reported that the bad guy had a .38 Special Smith & Wesson, and it later turned out that he had a Colt, I was in for a serious butt-chewing. Report 5 shots, there had better have been 5, not 4 and not 6.
Accuracy seems to have left the building. Journalism, as a profession dedicated to reporting the simple facts without inserting personal feeling or values, seems to be a forgotten art.
I'm glad I'm old and probably won't have to witness its final demise.
Crusader
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Rabbit,
Tom Gresham occasionally reflects on his J-school education and recites the 3 rules he was taught:
1) Accuracy
2) Accuracy
3) Accuracy
Wonder what happened to journalism ethics? The Agenda of the Left, just look at the lies the POTUS tells that never get challenged by the MSM hacks.
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The sheeple will believe what they want to hear no matter what mental gymnastics that requires .
The communists and socialists have spent 90 years infiltrating the 3 areas most important to their victory,
Government, media, and education .
Any one who reads history has to work to avoid seeing this, many work at quite hard .
During the Cold War, which Party ALWAYS jumped to the defense of any accused spy, and ALWAYS preached a policy of appeasement toward the communists no matter where ?
What Party ALWAYS pushes for unions ?
What party has controlled congress for all but 18 of the last 80 years ?
What Party is notorious for vote fraud and corruption ?
If you answer those questions you will know the source of the cancer now killing America.