In the news: Bulgarian politician escapes gas pistol attack
A man put a gas pistol to the head of the leader of Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish party during a televised conference.
Ahmed Dogan, leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) was unharmed and the unidentified man was wrestled to the ground by security guards.
The incident happened on Saturday at a party congress in the capital Sofia.
Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said the attacker tried to fire two shots but “most likely the gun misfired”.
A Colorado hunter and gun enthusiast holds a shotgun and poses for a portrait surrounded by mounted animal heads he has killed at his home in Lakewood.
(CNN Photos: Gun culture in Colorado – Matt Slaby/LUCEO)
Funny fact: the Christmas Eve shooter used the same type of weapon, a Bushmaster assault rifle, as the Newtown shooter
(…and the Colorado movie theater shooter)
(…and the Oregon shopping mall shooter)
(…and the Beltway sniper shooters)
(…and btw, got your man card yet?)
At least two firefighters were killed when they were shot after arriving to battle a blaze at a house in upstate New York on Monday, officials said.
Two other firefighters were injured, police in Webster, New York, told reporters.
Hmm, looks like firetrucks - or perhaps fires in general - would need armed guards as well…at least on Christmas Eve…
NRA Loses A Member by Bob Englehart (Hartford Courant)
Related: Wayne LaPierre’s Newtown statement pilloried by US newspapers
The National Rifle Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the US, has called for armed security guards to be posted in every school in the country and insisted that the only solution to gun violence in the wake of the Newtown massacre was more guns.
A week almost to the hour after a gunman blasted his way into Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut, killing 20 first-grade children as well as six staff members, the NRA’s executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre finally broke his silence and delivered a defiant message to the nation.
Throwing down the gauntlet to Barack Obama, he declared: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” That is a mantra that he has used after several previous mass shootings.
His statement dashed hopes of gun control advocates that the NRA would be willing to engage in debate about tighter restrictions on gun ownership, such as a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines of the type used by Adam Lanza in Newtown.
(The Guardian, 21 Dec. 2012) (Photos) (Transcript)
Newtown on NRA speech: ‘Completely off the mark’
So many missions…I guess you could even kill a deer with this one…
