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Updated 9.30am, 31 December
A TWO-YEAR-old in a shopping cart at a Walmart store shot and killed his mother with a handgun from her purse yesterday, in the latest US shooting tragedy.
The accident took place at a Walmart store in Hayden, Idaho, where the victim, Veronica Rutledge, was shopping with her children and other family members.
“Her son was seated in the shopping cart and accessed the victim’s concealed weapon from her purse and discharged it, striking the victim,” Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said in a statement.
Once on scene, deputies found a 29-year-old victim was deceased from an apparent gunshot wound.
Idaho, a rugged and largely rural state, is among the US states with the highest percentage of Americans who own guns.
Rutledge, who was spending the holidays in the area, had a concealed weapons permit, the sheriff’s office confirmed, allowing her to legally carry the gun.
Concealed weapon
The Sheriff office’s lieutenant Stu Miller told local television KHQ that in “instances like this, you know I’m a big proponent of a concealed weapon for your own safety. However, you have to be responsible. Unfortunately, in this case, that just wasn’t.”
Walmart said it was “fully cooperating with the Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputies as they investigate this matter.”
KREM television reported that Rutledge was in the store with three other children, which police did not immediately confirm.
Authorities sent psychologists to help employees needing assistance, it added. The store, which was evacuated, will be closed on Wednesday.
300 million guns in the US
Accidental shootings are not uncommon in the United States given the proliferation of guns, but Tuesday’s accident was unusually tragic.
A leading anti-gun lobby group, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, estimates that there are some 300 million guns in the United States — one for almost every individual in the nation.
Much of the research about children and firearms has focused on the nearly 20,000 minors who are killed or injured each year by guns in the United States.
In 2011, 2,703 young people, ages 0-19, were killed by gunfire in the United States.
There is, however, comparatively little information about how many youths are involved in accidental shootings that lead to injury or loss of life.
Meanwhile, an increasing number of US states over the years have adopted laws allowing their residents to obtain concealed carry permits, like the one that allowed Rutledge to take her handgun on her shopping errands.
In December 2011, the US Government Accountability Office estimated that there were about eight million concealed handgun permits, but by June 2014, the number had grown to well over 11.1 million.
Earlier this year, Americans were shaken by another unintended fatal shooting by a child, when a nine-year-old girl learning to fire an Uzi submachine gun at a shooting range accidentally killed her instructor.
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In a perfect world; politicians would be voted in, make the changes they said they’d make and then get out for someone else to come in and do the same. As long as you have career politicians or the ability for people to have a career in politics, the people will suffer because the objective of the politician goes from making a change in the country to how can I keep this job for as long as possible.
It’s all very stale isn’t it. Same old same old. Unfortunately, nobody in politics floats my boat at the moment.
Enda bores me rigid & is so predictable. Ireland needs some excitement, however, she is not going to get it from today’s crop of politicians.
As a janitor
and he will tell you he is a fresh thinker with new ideas…
So enda is in the dail forty years and hasn’t done any teaching since 1975 , yet he will still get a lump sum of €100.000 and a €30.000 a yr pension for teaching. Then he will get all the pensions he has accumulated in those 40 years. What a great little country we are . no money for a lot of things but loads of money for all the pensions.
“When is Enda Kenny going to step down?” Let’s see what happens after Fennelly is published he may get the heave ho.
Stephen, He is hanging onto Merkel’s apron strings with his civil servants under his cloak like the Ghost of Christmas present?
What were they, ignorance and Want?
its apity his style of governance is also from the 70′s
tell them lies and if caught out set up a sham “inquiry”
detest this type of treating an electorate, ps. Varadkar just talks and talks with nothing meaningful said, coveney nah, fitzgerald should retire
It’s irrelevant when Kim Jong Kenny wants to go, Because he’ll will be out on his arse after the next election anyway
John really where have you been I noticed this myself when I see Mr Noonan a prehistoric old person as minister of finance who has no connection with child care, food, energy bills, higher in Ireland than any where else in Europe at 2% standard variable rate mortgage, hospital , social venues for disabled . The man does not live in a world of young families / disabled / etc.. He is so far removed from life of other people he took economics and removed the social economic policies. The good news after the election is these old men Kenny, rabbit, Howlin, and idiot younger person Harris will be dumped by the majority of these families come the next election because people care about their living standards and families. Not the politicians who have left us all with the horrors of austerity.
Politics is about self not people of the country.
I hear if you look in the mirror and say the name ‘Enda Kenny’ 5 times, a man appears behind you with a pint in each hand.
Im sure the vast majority will show Mr Kehoe how much out of touch his party is with the people. would love to hear comments from Mayo just how embarrassing it is for the locals to watch that goons performance in the Dail.
Love it @ For Connolly – Has to be comment of the week if there was such a thing LOL
#For Connolly
That be Enda’s long lost cousin Bill, the flowerpot.
@ Wexford pikeman. I too would like to hear from people on Mayo, come on you mayo people let us know.
I’m from Mayo, although I’m living in Dublin. Personally I’m more disgusted than embarrassed by Enda, he represents everything that is wrong with Ireland to me. I have actually kept my vote in the west, so I know come election day, it will be working against Enda returning to govern this country that I love. It’s a no from me!
And that is all part of the problem. Enda Kenny is completely divorced from reality. He’s an utter imbecile.
No hes not, hes actually quite cute, he does exactly what hes told to do by the eu/imf and most of the irish electorate believe his bull. Even if we have had enough of enda by now we will still vote in another lying thief next time round who will be 99.99% identical to enda in terms of macro policies and actions. Ad infinitum. Its us the irish brainwashed electorate who are the imbiciles. Enda like the rest is just an opportunist, its not his fault we’re all naieve brain dead twits
So basically the man has been sucking at the taxpayers’ teat like a greedy piglet since 1975.
After being elected there by said taxpayer.
Along with people who don’t pay tax too of course
Bestiality again?
Think you will find that’s politicians as a whole!
All leeches on the working people!
The man’s delusional! Edna is on his way OUT!
kennys had to hire an ex YFGer as a PR guy for Mayo ,to the tune of 50 grand of taxpayers money, just so he mightn’t suffer the humiliation of being rejected by his own constituents despite being Taoiseach.
Jammin – Did you expect him to hire someone from you SR/IRA buddies?
I expect him to stand before his constituents based solely on his performance in office. Is that too much to ask of the alleged leader of the country?
“I expect him to stand before his constituents based solely on his performance in office”
Yeah there’s as much hope of that happening, as there is one of these FG eejits making a comment without mentioning the IRA, it’ll never happen.
Sadly his constituents will judge him on parish pump politics rather than the national issues they elect TD’s to deal with
@ wayne: keeping with that metaphor, hopefully his constituents consider enda the man who handed his buddy their taxes to fit a water meter to the parish pump.
Lets se how the electorate feel next year. They will be the arbitrators of that.
Great to see that you are now responding to both your names!
Not this rubbish again :-) Everyone knows that it’s only the cowardly FG supporters set up false accounts because they’ve been caught out so many times going it. What’s the name of your other account Powerabbey?
Poor ‘Reg’ got outed over the weekend. ‘Jane Black’ and ‘Doogle Knows’ oh and an obscure account called ‘Emmas wooden house’. All accounts attributed to one individual.
Les – Unlike you I have only one account. I though that one had to be a member of SF/IRA or AAA to be allowed to have multiple accounts??
That’s somewhat surprising Norman, I always considered Reg the least childish one of the lot of them. There you go, you think you know random anonymous strangers on the interwebs???
” I though that one had to be a member of SF/IRA or AAA to be allowed to have multiple accounts??”
Well seen as I have never been a member, supporter or voter of either party, how would I know? You on the other hand seem to know quiet a bit about it, it would seem.
West Cork Lad, unveiled ‘Reg’. Poor auld ‘Reg’ posted a copy and paste comment with exactly the same spelling mistake under two different accounts.
@ les Here’s reg/doogle knows/jane black etc. being caught bang to rights using multiple accounts at the same time….
http://www.thejournal.ie/profile/277170/hahaha-you-working-government-doing-4068086/
Of course Jammin and For Connelly only ever had one account each??
Right but what’s that got to do with me?
Seems you thought wrong Powerabbey, ; )
So Reg trolls random young girls internet accounts and steals their pictures? That’s a bit creepy.
Norman – why?
I did find that thread hilarious where “Reg” was caught by his little b@lls – so funny !
Oops! Didn’t see you there ,”Powerabbey” -Poor pet!
Is Baz still on his Caribbean cruise ?
Tiffany – good that you can see – Keep taking the tablets!
“Is Baz still on his Caribbean cruise ?”
I think bazs cruise was cancelled when the bloke who drives the Viking Splash Tours Boat rang in sick.
“Tiffany – good that you can see – Keep taking the tablets!”
You really are a child Powerabbey, are you not embarrassed about your immature behaviour?
Les – do you read your own tripe? I will not be changing to suit you or Tiffany? I assume that you are both the same person. Troll on!
Not a FG supporter but I belelieve FG will get back into power at next election simply because there is no real alternative, please don’t say FF or SF!!! All politicans “lie” to achieve power.
BTW I notice not ONE from any party on none has commented about the largest migration into Ireland since the Plantation of Ulster 300 years ago. ALL are scared shootless of the “R” yet they are tripping over oneanother in Arbour Hill honouring the men and women of 1916.
Another 100 years it will be a case of finding the “Paddy” in Ireland to honour them!!
I have only one account ,”Powerabbey” – poor pet!
Tiffany – difficult to understand. You both sound so alike – PET PET!
“Les – do you read your own tripe? I will not be changing to suit you or Tiffany? I assume that you are both the same person. Troll on!”
So I’m Tiffany now? does that mean I’m still Jammin/For Connolly too? Powerabbey why would I want you to change? you making an idiot of yourself every time you post suits me grand actually :-)
Les / Tiffany – I assume from your commentary that everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot. You have a very narrow range of insult!
No Powerabbey, I’m actually you and I’m holding a conversion with myself on the comments sections of an internet news website.
Les please log off now as it’s my turn
Look Tiffany the agreement was Mon-Fri 12 – 7 ,I can only argue with one of my imaginary multiple accounts at a time. Well talk about this later.
Led / Tiffany – see you are now talking to yourself! First sign!
Apologies ,Les !
First sign of what ,Powerabbey?
“No Powerabbey, I’m actually you and I’m holding a conversion with myself on the comments sections of an internet news website.”
“Led / Tiffany – see you are now talking to yourself! First sign!”
Go you, being able to repeat what I just said in a slightly different way. I make myself proud sometimes ;-)
I cannot wait until myself and myself (Les) have a barney on another thread -it will do your nut in ;)
You forget Were Jammin/For Connolly. Apparently we are him too?
Hang on, if you’re me, who the hell am I??
Am I this Barney fella that Tiffanys going to have?
Baz’s idea of a holiday is switching troll accounts for a few weeks to post Normal civilised comments. He was sick of red thumbs
If anyone is going to be Barney ,Les – it will be me
The poor things are getting so confused lately switching accounts , they can’t remember who they are. They are even recycling pictures as well.
Oops! Typo! meant for For Connolly .
“Hang on, if you’re me, who the hell am I??
Am I this Barney fella that Tiffanys going to have?”
You’re you but you’re also me and I’m Tiffany, which makes you Tiffany and I’m also Powerabbey, which makes Tiffany you,Powerabbey Tiffany and you and me or should I say me and I, and Barney is a big purple dinosaur whose actually real but not known to post her that often.
See simples!
Baz has been very quite -there must be no wiffy where he is staying ..
“Oops! Typo! meant for For Connolly .”
Yer grand. Apparently we’re the same person anyway, which is ironic because I consider myself a lesbian caught in a mans body.
“You’re you but you’re also me and I’m Tiffany, which makes you Tiffany and I’m also Powerabbey, which makes Tiffany you,Powerabbey Tiffany and you and me or should I say me and I, and Barney is a big purple dinosaur whose actually real but not known to post her that often. ”
Thanks for clearing that up Les. If anybody needs me I’ll be lying down.
Now if I could just take off this Barney costume….
Lol. That’s a good one. They must be all busy out following people around supermarket’s to see what people put into their trollies. Looking through peoples windows to see what their eating. So they can report back .
“Yer grand. Apparently we’re the same person anyway, which is ironic because I consider myself a lesbian caught in a mans body.”
That’s weird, I once thought I was a lesbian caught in Connemara, then found out I had just gone a bit mad that day but then you already knew that, because as you are me, and I am and Tiffany is…..
Have I told anyone of ye’s about my property tax yarn?
Don’t want to bore ye lads but – Once upon a time ……
Tiffany is actually me
That was a lovely yarn ,Thomas ! I remember it well ..!
BTW – You are me too..
In my best Barney singing voice “I am you, you are me, we’re a girl called Tiff-a-nee….”
Fair play Thomas, that was a great yarn we just shared. I always said we were a great storyteller.
Is anybody me? Feeling left out
Thanks Les :) Means a lot to me :)
Oops! Done it again! Typo!
Thanks ,Les :) Means a lot to me :)
I am laughing out loud at Powerabbey and all of his accounts – lol
Reg is busy commenting on the Death Road article.
“Reg is busy commenting on the Death Road article.”
Oh you are evil, I like it ;-)
Just thought of ye would like to say hi to him, he has laid low since the weekend.
I’m not Reg you guys. This has to stop.
What about Reg- has anyone hear of him?
Leo, is that you, in drag?
That Powerabbey is a w*nker.
Affray behind keyboards. Almost like bully any non Shinners out. Like reality i suppose.
You’re absolutely right Reg/Jane Black /Doogle Knows , you could say that it’s “redicilous”
@powerabbey. At least have the decency to know when you’ve been rumbled ya clown. What name will you be using tomorrow?
Oh Les ya rascal. I am right- it’s a handsome looking gang of bullies with Mr. Bean leading.
Not Reg.
Oh Reg like Fergal just said “at least have the decency to know when you’ve been rumbled”. You’re fooling no one, just embarrassing yourself now!
Embarrass yourself- amoung journal commentators now that would be talent.
It was a classic copying + pasting “redicilous” .Jane .
My my – I seem to have touched a nerve with the multiple account owners. They seem afraid that the normal contributors on this site might try to express views that are different to the left biased cults.
When you get Oggie, Jammin, Tiffany and Les acting as one voice you know that you have hit the mark.
Night night boys and girls!!
“A paranoid delusion is the fixed, false belief that one is being harmed or persecuted by a particular person or group of people. Paranoid delusions are known technically as a “persecutory delusion.”
“My my – I seem to have touched a nerve with the multiple account owners. They seem afraid that the normal contributors on this site might try to express views that are different to the left biased cults.
When you get Powerabbey, Jammin, Tiffany and Les acting as one voice you know that you have hit the mark.
Good morning boys and girls!!
Good afternoon Les – I’m sorry I didn’t realise that you suffered from Paranoid Delusions. I should have notice from your postings!
* noticed btw moron i’don’t think you’re ‘Jane’ that was to the multiple account holding fool ‘Reg’.
Get EVERYONE to vote in this country. We need to get rid of this embarrasing Government once and for all. Thank Heavens for Independents. Without them we would have more of the lies, cronyism, nepotism and corruption. Kenny is a delusional prat. He is an embarrasment to us all. Banish him to the wilds of Mayo never to be seen or heard from again. We cannot be inflicted with any more of these numpties.
Independents are well capable of doing all those bad things too.
Yea the Healy reas were and are a beacon of light!!!!
Don’t let the numpty teach. Imagine how warped kids would be if Enda was their teacher. Banish him to the Blasket Islands forever!!!!
Speaking as a Wexford voter, I think Kehoe might do better to concern himself with his own future in the Dail.
800 first preference votes, scraped in on the final count, hasn’t been seen in wexford since. But he counted the votes after the Bruton heave and viola, Enda inexplicably makes him the Government whip. He’s a throwback in so many ways.
What exactly do people expect Kehoe to say? Even Joan is saying Labour will be back in government.
couldn’t think of more nightmare-ish scenario
In the year 2525…
30 plus years in the Dail and nothing to show for it except a very large pension…..
Any word on the Fennelly report ?
Jeeeez Paul Mac. you don’t expect that to come out now and spoil their holidays.
If Ant and Dec were born after Enda went into the Dail, then isn’t he already in the Dail longer than they are alive?
Correct, him being there longer won’t change when he started.
He is actually a TD since 12th Nov 1975 – before Ant was born (18th Nov) but after Dec (25th Sept) so the whole headline is nonsense.
Would ‘Paul Kehoe thinks government will be re-elected’ not have done?
Jeeeeez he is more delusional than I thought.
I foresee a heave shortly before or after the next GE. I predict the Fennelly report will be the catalyst!
Your expecting the Fennelly report to be released?
Good God NO
“If Paul Kehoe’s right, Enda Kenny will be in the Dáil as long as Ant n’ Dec have been alive”
I fear that poor Ant and Dec’s lives might now be in danger.
Is there many TD’s like Paul that have two constituency offices?
Paul Kehoe you brown noser, surely you cant be that thick as to believe this rubbish? Nice haircut by the way!
Just look at the latest polls. There is not a hope of FG being re-elected. They NEVER, EVER have, not in their entire history. We may be stupid at times by electing incompetents, but, to be fair, we have NEVER, EVER re-elected FG. Al young people should take note of this and not waste their valuable vote by mistake. Tell your friends.
It has to be all the SM he is playing with Mistress Angela and Screaming Joan. Lay off the canning Dame Inda its affecting your brain. Maybe he has not heard that Dimmy Dooley of FF will be the next Taoiseach !!
I’ll have whatever he’s smokin’ (Unless the Irish have learned nothing and vote em back in)
FFS don’t let that gobsh!te back into power he has done enough damage
Kehoe in trouble in Wexford :-)
Enda thinks he’s Peter pan he has an ego as big as the mount Everest, someone in FG will have to push him, he wants to continue till 2021, he is so modest. Hahahahahaha.
Thats a long time to be at nothing!!
another deluded moron just like joan and enda parasites the lot of them
Be nice if kenny just stepped down and admitted defeat as kenny is only in politics for kenny and close company
The good of the irish people I believe aren’t even in his thoughts, he’s not a leader but more a bully with his tactics/policies
Agree with you Brendan, his day will come, just like Hitler’s did.
Kehoe you wouldn’t find a more dedicated buleey If u tried. SS
Today would be great .. Go on enda the liar . Step down do the country a favour
To step down you’d have to step up first…this joker didn’t!
Are they for real. What a clown. Hard to make a constructive comment without sounding obnoxious. will stick with the first two sentences.
In your Dreams Great Leader…
Just listening to the news about Enda thinking he will be in in 2021. The little man has a big EGO me thinks.
Whenever Paul Kehoe thinks End a will be stepping down Paul himself may be stepping down himself very shortly
@ Shauna thank you for being the only person in Mayo being honest, but mr kenny needs to be stopped sooner than later, thanks for your honesty.
I wonder has Kenny cleared it with Varadkar & Coveney !.
The only way that Kenny clown will get back into office would be a vote rig. Paul Kehoe has spin doctors and advisors filing his little head with these Dr Goebels type statements.
Git a bit excited with the headline. Thought he was moving on :(
He be there until the “3 days of Darkness” comes?
Never. He’ll have to be thrown out with the dish water
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3185261/Is-universe-FAKE-Physicists-claim-playthings-advanced-civilisation.html
Don’t worry, this government can’t exist, it is a mass nightmare… Enda Kreuger doesn’t exist lol.
Just tell him to f… off and see how that works lol.
Please spare us
Today would not be soon enough…..seriously though is side line to any bad news out there do deflect from the government…same every year, not a day will pass without some nonsense being published during dail break
Am I the only one who wishes Paul Kehoe would shave his head? It’s not a comb over, it’s not bald… What is it?
Ok today is April 1st – isn’t it
Sadly not…
Fastest growing economy in Europe.
Fastest growing economy in a stagnant Europe?
Well when you say it like that it doesn’t sound so good :)
Simple question to which the simple answer is – not soon enough!
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