Police: Man drunk, high when fatally shot friend at Super Bowl party

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It was not the alcohol or the pot that killed his friend, it was the gun. If they had not had a gun around they would both still be alive. This is why not everyone should have a gun, this guy was a responsible gun owner until he made one stupid mistake and now his friend is dead and his life is ruined. It is a tragedy, and we have seen far too many of these tragedies.

He should have never been able to touch a gun in the first place....

His crime was a non-violent drug offense, now obviously it is irresponsible for him to violate the law by owning a gun, but there is no evidence he was a violent person. There was no violent intent, this is the type of thing that happens far too often with guns. If it were not for the previous non-violent offense this guy would have been a "responsible gun owner" with no criminal intent, this is the kind of stupid mistake that happens when people can own guns without even getting proper training.

From a private seller,who did nothing to check this persons background.

From gun owners who of course in many states aren't required to lock up their guns under any circumstance

I don't discredit anything these days

He should have been stopped from ever owning a gun.

And that is being generous.

After purposely loading the gun, purposely pointing it at his friends head, and purposely pulling the trigger, what did he expect was going to happen?

His friend had criticized Beyonce's performance.

So he has that as a mitigating factor in his defense.

Makes sense to me. Twinkies are good too.

That would have prevented this.

He "pulled the trigger" and it "just went of and it was not intentional" if you pulled the trigger it was pretty dam intentional...I hope this one spends the rest of his life in jail for intentionally breaking the laws.

will have that on him the rest of his life. Would be a wake up for some to stop drinking and not have guns around to play with.

If the gun wasn't available there would not have been a shooting. The common denominator in all gun violence is the gun.

killed his friend by wrapping his car around a telephone pole would be be discussing banning cars? People use cars as daily tools in life and people also abuse them and kill people on a daily basis.

According to the CDC:

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html

In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1
Of the 1,210 traffic deaths among children ages 0 to 14 years in 2010, 211 (17%) involved an alcohol-impaired driver.1
Of the 211 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2010, over half (131) were riding in the vehicle with the alcohol-impaired driver.1
In 2010, over 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.3 That's one percent of the 112 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.4
Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are often used in combination with alcohol.5


More children are killed each year in drunk driving accidents then are killed in school shootings...

People do stupid things that sometimes results in death. Stupid people will always find a way remove themselves or others from the gene pool.

Feed good weapons bans won't accomplish anything except change control of the senate and white house.

Yeah? No, I thought so.

The car equivalent of this story is this guy sneaking up from behind with his car and then running it over his head. It seems that a gun is way more suited for this sort of "accident" than a car.

Any arms legislation is feel good in your eyes - I do think the people of Norway, or Germany, or any other country without a firearms-death epidemic like we have do feel pretty good.

But enjoy your stay!

to do with cars.

as it compares the scope of the problem.

Anyone else think this might not be an accident?

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