Gun Fun Factoids

Shooting from high elevation w/ a (virtually) automatic weapon, Las Vegas-style.

Crew Chief Nicholas Brazil, Corporal, U.S.M.C., fires a machine gun from a Huey attack helicopter
during live fire training for the multi-national military exercise RIMPAC
at Pohakuloa Training Area on the island of Hawaii in this July 22 photo.

Hugh Gentry/Reuters

Already forgotten where we saw & promptly borrowed this Harper's Wkly. Review wk. in the life.

The White House press secretary said “it would be premature” to talk about gun control; US president Donald Trump said that he was “not going to talk about” gun control; and a 60-year-old man in New York shot and killed his 27-year-old disabled daughter with a shotgun in his back yard and then shot and killed himself, a 46-year-old woman was shot and killed in her mobile home in Florida, a 40-year-old man was shot and killed in a house in Maryland, a 52-year-old man in Louisiana was shot and killed in his back yard, four people attending a vigil for a 30-year-old woman who was shot and killed in Florida were then shot by an unknown assailant, a twentysomething man in Tennessee was shot and killed outside the group home for disabled adults where he worked, a 25-year-old man in Georgia was shot and killed during a bar fight, a 27-year-old man in Michigan was shot and killed while walking his dogs, a 22-year-old man was shot and killed in his kitchen in Michigan while showing a visitor his gun, a two-year-old in Illinois was shot by an unknown assailant while the car the child was riding in was stopped at a red light, a construction worker in New York was shot and killed on the 37th floor of an unfinished building by a co-worker who then shot and killed himself on the fifth floor, an 18-year-old boy in New York was shot and killed three blocks from his home, a 14-year-old boy in Washington was shot and killed by a 13-year-old boy with a handgun he had borrowed from a 12-year-old, and, in Utah, a video was released of a police officer fatally shooting a black man who was running away after being pulled over for erratically riding his bicycle without a rear reflector. “Deadly force,” said the district attorney on the case, “was justified.”[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]

Image snatched from Xian Sci. Mon.

Gun control: Why the US military is fighting with the NRA

US military commanders are trying to cope with an epidemic of suicides within the armed forces.
Officials say they are frustrated by a recent law, backed by the NRA, that makes it difficult
to talk to soldiers about personally owned firearms.

Can't wait to see who wins that fight.