Climber kills another climber with a hammer

Who brings a claw hammer to go climbing?

"Something a little off-putting about the tone here -- unless you are the sort of person who doesn't mind jokes when one of your friends goes splat -- "

They also say they questioned him about these lacerations, thus implying they were hammer blows, but the medical examiner labels them "lacerations", which is technically defined as a jagged tear of the skin distinctly different from an incision. Given I cant imagine repeated hammer blows to the hands would result in "lacerations", but instead do fit well with someone trying to remove that persons hands if they were choking them, I imagine this is why manslaughter was filed instead of murder.

HAHAHA Richard !

Congratulations on all that thinking that led you to compare a hammer with an automatic rifle.

And I'm humbled in your effort to restate and confirm my point !

Congratulations on all that thinking that led you to think that the tool of choice is the problem.

How many mass killings were committed with a hammer?

Mental illness is the root of the problem

... keep those tools out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them.

I'm not for banning "assault" rifles, but I am for reasonable regulations that will keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them.

Furthermore, if you take drug-related and gang-related shootings out of the statistics (which are not going to be "solved" by ANY proposed legislation), and you take suicides out of the statistics (more on that in a moment), you are MORE likely to be killed by walking... that's right, walking, than being killed by a gun. I posted the WHO statistics on this on one of the gun-control threads

For argument sake- let's summarily dismiss the most prolific cause of gun violence (drugs and gangs)

Climber kills another climber with a hammer

His biggest trick is to write such lengthy and argumentative nonsense

'regulation' guaranteed by the constitution. "Well Regulated".

I honestly could go in and tear down MB's lengthy argument piece by piece

Would you be as Libertarian Richard if you didn't want to bear arms but your government made it a legal obligation to do so ?

your philosophy is one of force

but the aggressor always has the advantage

I like my statistics better than yours.

Is that a wimpy call-out?

You've never been in a fight or you wouldn't be such a wuss.

Typical conservatard

would rather shoot an innocent kid than take a punch like a man.

You're a caps and exclamation point pussy.

My comment about the aggressor versus the defender is based on military theory. No amount of guns will protect your little prefab castle from a middling siege.

All your armaments are useless against a few jugs of petrol.

Tell me you've got someone in your life that doesn't just tolerate you.

You're a mad and close minded sophist.

"frequently stealing equipment and clothing from other climbers."

"it was clear to everyone that DiPaolo, whose best friend seemed to be a wildly ungroomed dog named Caesar, had emotional issues that grew more pronounced as he aged and descended into a life of darkness, dominated by addiction to heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine. He supported his habits with some part-time construction work—acquaintances and authorities say he kept many tools in his van—a trust fund that provided several hundred dollars a month, and petty thievery. DiPaolo had several brushes with the law, in part, authorities say, because of his involvement with gang activity in Baltimore, and he drifted in and out of drug-rehabilitation programs.

It seems that every local climber has a story about DiPaolo: openly snorting cocaine at the base of a Carderock climb, staging the theft of his climbing rack to collect insurance money, and frequently stealing equipment and clothing from other climbers. His former climbing partner Matt Kull stopped climbing with DiPaolo in the late 1990s because of his drug use on the rock, his stealing, and his sloppy safety practices, which led to several incidents in which other climbers suffered severe injuries when DiPaolo dropped them on belay."

Machain said he watched as Skylar Deleon grabbed an anchor and some rope, tied the Hawks to the anchor and brought them to the back of the boat.

"Then Mr. Hawk was able to lift his leg somehow and he literally tossed Skylar off his feet, knocked him on his butt … and right behind him the black guy [Kennedy] just takes a big swing at the side of his head and just, I'm pretty sure, he knocked him out." It was a final act of defiance by the powerful captain of the Well Deserved.

Prohibitions which for the most part work.

"Driving a car without a valid license" is not an item for-sale for which there is a market.