Just goes to show that concealed weapons in the hands of law abiding citizens save lives. Get trained. Get your CWP. I've got mine and wouldn't want it any other way.
Looks like it's doubled up for a few. Isn't "most sickly" and "poorest health" or "alcoholism" and "binge drinking" just two different ways to say the same thing? And a lot of these are pretty vague. I wonder where the author has been pulling his data from. Probably unreliable sites on the interweb. Plus, no one likes a pessimist. This guy is a rain cloud.
Reminds me of that scene from the animated movie The Plague Dogs from the early '80's. The dog meets a hunter and runs to greet him. The hunter rests his gun against his leg and holds out his arms to embrace the dog, but the dog steps on the trigger and shoots the hunter in the face. Not a film for kids, but I promise you, the movie is awesome.
The house I grew up in was built on land that used to be part of a WWII training camp. When I was a kid, my brothers and I found two hand grenades in our front yard while playing in the dirt. They were rusted and they weren't live anymore and I still have one sitting in a box in my parents house.
Imagine the perceived level of super-power hearing this guy must have felt he had on the drive home. It must have felt like a pretty good day. Minus the bronchitis, of course.
Just one more reason why dogs are our best friends. I wonder if this would work the same with cats? My opinion as a dog lover is that it would not. Sorry cat people.
@dru taylor: Man, that's a sad story. Now you've made me depressed. Here I am thinking about delicious sandwiches one minute and the next I'm thinking about a poor dead kid who suffered an excrutiating death because of his idiot parents. I'm going to go hug my son now.