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I think this story is not yet ready for the oven. (4:02PM EDT)
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While we are waiting, should we help Drudge write a headline connecting this to King Obama?
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Ah yes! Guns close to psychiatric units in hospitals. Second amendment freedoms!!
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Glad to see this psych patient exercising his Second Amendment rights. Very kind of him to do so near a hospital.
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A law-abiding citizen was standing his ground over a colonoscopy.
Or lying on his ground, more likely. I’ve had one, and it’s not something I’d do standing up.
I know that Hospital and the Psychiatric area because my nephew was there. They have no security. All you have to do is sign in to go to visit patients.
My prayers go to the family of the women killed.
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oooh, lookie here! another day, another shooting in the wild, wild west, errr, americu! a hoslital no less! can’t think of a better place to be shot than a hospital.
A doctor grazed by gunfire from a patient who had entered his office in a suburban hospital’s psychiatric unit stopped him by returning fire with his own gun and injuring him, authorities said.
Investigators believe the doctor had his own gun and acted in self-defense, District Attorney Jack Whelan said.
The patient, who had psychiatric problems, opened fire after entering the doctor’s office with a caseworker Thursday afternoon, Whelan said. The caseworker was killed. The doctor appears to have suffered only a graze wound and was expected to be released from treatment later in the day.
Imagine that, a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. Looks like the story needs another update.
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Is the gun OK?
Who was the shooter? Did they get the gun back?
The doctor was only grazed, he was treated and released. The patient was the shooter and didn’t get his gun back.
Man unintentionally fires gun at VA hospital, causes lockdown of nearby elementary school
An outpatient at the Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital in St. Louis,
Missouri dropped a small caliber handgun in the foyer area of the mental
health outpatient center. When the gun hit the floor it discharged.
While police were investigating the incident an elementary school and
early childhood center located next to the hospital were put on
temporary lockdown.
No one was injured and the man does have a concealed weapons permit.
The man who killed his wife and then himself at Deaconess Hospital on
Tuesday had been evaluated by law enforcement as a potential suicide
risk less than 24 hours earlier.
Spokane Valley police officers cleared Christopher P. Henderson after determining he was not a threat to himself or others.
On Monday, Henderson had alarmed a co-worker at West Corp. when the
37-year-old said “his life wasn’t worth living,” because “his wife
wanted to leave him for another woman,” according to a police report.
Three hours after deputies cleared him, Henderson retrieved a gun from
Spokane police that had been confiscated in May during an earlier
suicide attempt.