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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The P-I’s Creepy Detail

Posted by on April 25 at 8:34 AM

Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features a front-page story on the news conference held yesterday by Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske, who addressed “the recent wave of gun violence in Seattle that has claimed nine lives and left at least 10 people injured in the past month.”

From the P-I:

The most recent shooting in Seattle happened just before 10 a.m. Sunday in North Seattle when Pablo Gonzalez, 53, armed with a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, fired more than 20 shots at neighboring homes and arriving police officers before shooting himself in the head. One of the officers was injured by shrapnel. Kerlikowske said detectives searching Gonzalez’s home found evidence he had financial problems. The only newspaper found in his home was a copy of The Stranger opened to an article on the Capitol Hill murders.

Full story here.


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If only he'd waited until he got to the issue with the Club Z feature. Things may have ended differently.

Totally.

Man, that is a low blow!! You all write one nasty feature calling for their demise...

The obvious question for the Seattle Times to now ask is: why is the Stranger trying to kill our policemen?

how many people were mowed down and killed by people driving with cell phones?

my guess is a heck of a lot more.

maybe the Chief can go arrest people talking on cell phones in cars and do something useful for a change.

Will- I'm confused. You're suggesting that driving while talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than randomly unloading at houses and police officers?

Will- I'm confused. You're suggesting that driving while talking on a cell phone is more dangerous than randomly unloading at houses and police officers?

Jerod - I'm confused. Is there an echo in here or did you just post that twice?

Okay, seriously, the chief's reaction is completely predictable. A rash of shooting sprees, done for random reasons... guns are the problem, IHO.

Chief Gil laments the easy availibilty of guns in our society. Damn straight! All you have to do is watch where he parks his car, and then steal his duty pistol left (illegally!!) in the unsecured vehicle.

I'll pay more attention to his thoughts on gun control when he demonstrates a responsible level of gun ownership.

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