Posted on 07/19/2004 11:07:31 AM PDT by gunnygail
I thought that the pablum-puking libretards all said that peace would reign and we could ALL sing kumbaya and hold hands once those pesky evil guns were gone.
OK .. I give
What are you talking about?
Innocent pensioner shot dead in pub
19 July 2004
A pensioner shot dead in his local pub was an innocent victim simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, police have said.
Fred Fowler, 72, was blasted in the Tap and Barrel pub in Salem Street, Hendon, Sunderland, at 9.47pm when two masked men burst in.
They also shot a 19-year-old local man who was today in a critical but comfortable condition in hospital.
Detective Superintendent Barbara Franklin told a news conference at Gillbridge police station a number of children were playing in the street outside the red-brick pub when three men arrived outside in a dark Ford Focus.
The children saw one man run out of the car and fire a shot through a window into the pub, before he ran into the bar with an accomplice.
A number of shots were then fired inside the premises, where there were around a dozen drinkers, she said.
Ballistics experts had yet to say whether the first blast from outside the pub was the fatal shot.
But the detective said she was certain Mr Fowler was an innocent bystander.
She said: "There is nothing in my mind which suggests he was the target. Mr Fowler was an innocent victim in the middle of all this."
Mr Fowler was single and lived in sheltered accommodation behind the pub.
You posted this in breaking news.......a guy shot in a pub?
Oops?
If making something illegal stopped it, America would of won the war on drugs years ago.
People in Britain are not bothered enough by gun crime, because most of the victims of gun crime are involved in a criminal gang mainly dealing with drugs.
We have had three cases of a family being killed by a gun man, but in each case it was by the father.
Tony
You didn't read the fine print. All guns of every size, shape, and make everywhere on the planet must be gone first.
Stuned beeber?
FMCDH(BITS)
Except, of course, those guns held by government. We all know that government *always* acts in the best interest of the leaders people.
I dont remember the kumbaya part
Bwahahaha, that's rich!
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