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Published Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 | 6:15 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 | midnight
Shooting
Two women and a man were killed Tuesday from apparent gunfire while another man is in critical condition at University Medical Center.
Emergency calls came from neighbors around 4:20 p.m., Metro Police Lt. Mark Reddon said. When officers arrived at the 2200 block of La Sombra Street, near Smoke Ranch Road and Jones Boulevard in the northwest valley, they found blood on the patio of a home and bullet holes in a window. Police entered and found the three adults dead from apparent gunshot wounds in what authorities believe was a domestic-related dispute.
SWAT was then called to the residence, Reddon said.
Detectives are on scene investigating the killings.
Sigh...
More reason's to give everyone a gun!!!
The odds of being a victim of gun violence are greater with a gun in the house than not. That's a fact.
@tomd1228 The odds of being in a car accident are greater if im in a car. thats a fact. see i can throw out facts to. guess i should never ride in a car again.
@vegasoli
Once again. You are more prone to be a victim to gun violence by having a gun in the home vs. not having a gun. What that has to do with riding in a car is beyond me.
You are actually agreeing with me with your statement. Yes, you are less likely to be in a car accident by not being in a car and you are less likely to be a victim of gun violence by not having a gun in your home. Yes, those are facts. It's a myth that having a gun in the house makes you safer.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than all the guns in my house combined.
@TOMD1228
i was being sarcastic. of course the odds of being in a car accident while in a car are greater just like being around fire you have greater odds of being burnt. your point is very broad. your not stating actual facts. there is no data that supports that. please prove me wrong.
@TOMD1228
im gonna take a guess and say you are for gun control.
I am for gun control in the sense that I don't want guns in the hands of felons and people prone to violence. Background checks for anyone who wants a gun. No exceptions.
As much as I would like to see dumb people denied gun ownership I realize that is not enforceable. We have too many dumb gun owners who know little to nothing about the usage, storage or maintenance of guns. I'd like to see mandatory training for all gun buyers. If that's far reaching, so be it. We have way too many idiots blasting away over a parking spot, their kid was tripped at a soccer game or someone bumped into their girlfriend.
The only study is the Kellerman study which the NRA and other gun lobby groups have tried to dismiss. The gun lobby has opposed any other studies to verify the Kellerman study. Mind you, not investigate to seek the truth but simply they don't want any studies funded by the CDC period. I wonder why?
The second Amendment does not allow the citizen to use weapons against anyone in the Government, including the argument that he feels his rights are threatened or being taken away.
The 2nd Amendment was edited before being ratified by Virginia to use the word State instead of Country to preserve control over the 250,000+ slaves in the State.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The words are 'free State', not a free Country. This Amendment could also stretched to mean that a State could act 'free' or independent of the Country but the Civil War clarified that meaning for all time.
At the time of ratification, hundreds of substantial slave uprisings had occurred in the Colonies and the Caribbean and paranoia produced a fearful over-reaction. Blacks outnumbered whites in large areas, and the state militias were used to prevent and to put down slave uprisings. Punishment for such uprisings included gibbeting and burning the participants at the stake (punishments from the European Inquisition).
The slave patrol in the South was changed to the more mundane term, State Militia, which was regulated by the State. Most southern men between ages 18 and 45, including physicians and ministers, had to serve on slave patrol in the militia at one time or another in their lives and they used their own guns.
For as long as guns, drugs, and alcohol exist, people will always die from them.
I own multiple legal guns. I enjoy drinking alcohol. I have never shot anyone and have never received a DUI or ran anyone over. I don't care to seek drugs. Why? I'm educated.
Punishments are too weak for drug abusers.
Laws are too weak for drunk drivers.
Penalties for illegal gun activity are too weak. If someone is caught using a firearm illegally, maybe they should go to an uncomfortable tiny prison cell for 10 or 15 years. No TV, no Internet, no comforts that we give our prisoners today. That could possibly make someone rethink their intentions.
Guns will always exist, as will knives, bats, axes, hammers, and crowbars. People will always hate their enemies and want to harm them. Getting rid of guns will not stop people from hurting one another. The primary use of guns in the hands os U.S. citizens is for hunting and recreation, followed by self-defense and protection. Happens almost any moment of any day.. that's never in the media though.
The problem isn't guns. It never was. The problem is an uneducated, underfunded, breed of society filled with greed, self-entitlement, an obliviousness. Where did everyone learn this from? Maybe our poor political leaders. Not just Democrats, not just Republicans, but both parties. It's very pitiful that our country is more divided than ever since the Civil War.
It's against Nevada law for an illegal to carry--but we keep hearing about violent crime for cash by illegals--murder (of Americans) on our streets by illegals who need rent money, again and again. Enforce our laws. Absolutely pointless to generate more laws when we don't enforce the ones we have.