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Thursday, February 23, 2012

News Morning News: Gun Deaths, No Emergency Contraception for You, Grown-up Harry Potter

Posted by Anna Minard on Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 AM

Get Rid of All the Guns Already, AUGH: As Dom posted last night, an 8-year-old girl in Bremerton was shot yesterday when a gun in a classmate's backpack went off. She's in critical condition. A state trooper was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Kitsap County; the shooter is still at large. And both of the men from that shooting in Rainier Beach have died.

In Totally Non-Gun-Related News: A judge ruled that Washington State pharmacists don't have to carry or dispense perfectly legal, time-sensitive, over-the-counter-for-adults emergency contraception because Jesus. Or something. (Get a "Feminist Killjoy" shirt here to cheer you up!)

Copter Crash: "Two Marine helicopters collided at the Yuma Training Range Complex on Wednesday, killing seven Marines in one of the worst training accidents in recent years."

Sounds Appropriate: The UN draws up a list of Syrian leaders "who it says should be investigated for ordering 'crimes against humanity' and other gross human rights violations," including President Assad. The Guardian has a regularly updated feed of Syria news here. And this picture might make you cry.

It's Not Going Away Yet: "Two U.S. troops have been shot to death and four more wounded by an Afghan solider who turned his gun on his allies in apparent anger over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan."

Lacrosse Murder: George Huguely V, 24, was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Yeardley Love, in 2010.

Huguely killed Love, a University of Virginia women's lacrosse player from suburban Baltimore, after a day of golf and binge drinking, incensed that she had had a relationship with a North Carolina lacrosse player, the prosecution said. Love's right eye was bashed in and she was hit with such power that her brain was bruised. She also had wrenching head injury that caused bleeding at the base of her brain stem.

I Know, I've Been Ignoring These Fuckers All Week: But there was a Republican debate last night. See the whole sordid play-by-play here, and tune in next time to completely lose your faith in humanity!

Ummm, Thanks? Seattle named third-horniest city US city.

J. K. Rowling Publishing Another Book: This one's going to be for adults.

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You forgot the 3 or 4 burglars that have been shot by homeowners in the last couple of weeks.

Posted by Mr. X on February 23, 2012 at 8:38 AM

#1: You should speak at these people's funerals to let their families know their loved ones' sacrifices were worth it, because plentiful guns saved a few TV's. Well, assuming yelling "I called the cops" wouldn't have stopped the burglars, which it almost certainly would have.

Posted by raku on February 23, 2012 at 8:50 AM

100 dudes for 3 girls?

No wonder Seattle is horny.

But I don't care.

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Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on February 23, 2012 at 8:59 AM

Any pharmacy that refuses to carry contraceptives should be the target of non-stop picketing.

Posted by Vince on February 23, 2012 at 9:01 AM

@ 4, no doubt. If clinics of abortion providers are always picketed, then "conscientious" pharmacists should be, too.

Posted by Matt from Denver on February 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM

I've said it before and I'm going to keep saying it. We will never get rid of guns in this country. We are too big and there are too many. To do so would require that we gut the 4th amendment, and regardless of how all y'all feel about the 2nd, I'd venture you're pretty fond of the 4th.

Posted by Lissa on February 23, 2012 at 9:23 AM

Magically get rid of all the guns already! We just need to invent a star trek transporter than will locate every gun on the planet and beam them into space. Or did Anna mean outlaw them so that only criminals have them? Ah I just love over simplifying issues, makes life so much easier...

Posted by hifiandrew on February 23, 2012 at 9:39 AM

@2 You're right, we should totally be allowed to steal shit without the fear of deathly consequences.

Posted by JF on February 23, 2012 at 9:47 AM

@2, You're a fucking moron. You don't know what they were going to do or not. You can't argue if they're victims of circumstance or not. Hands down, if you break into somebody's home and you get shot in the head, that's on YOU, and YOU ABSOLUTELY DESERVE IT. We could easily speculate that, had the residents not defended themselves, they would've been killed instead.

FUCK YOU.

Posted by stimpy on February 23, 2012 at 10:26 AM

While we're at it: We need to get rid of all crime, already too. And meanness. Oh. And death.

Posted by tkc on February 23, 2012 at 11:47 AM