West Virginia man calls 911 and turns himself in after watching President Obama talk about drug addiction.

"That's right buddy. I'm talking to you."

Courtesy of WSAZ: 

Like many West Virginians, a man from Cross Lanes watched President Obama address the drug addiction problem during his visit to Charleston on Oct. 21. 

Later that day, he called 911 and said he needed help for a drug addiction and asked that deputies be sent to his home. 

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office released details of the incident Wednesday in a release that ended with, "We applaud this person's self-initiated efforts and wish him well in his recovery." 

The Sheriff's Office said after repeated calls back from 911 operators that day, their deputies went to the man's home. They said he put his hands on the wall and said he needed help. 

The man, in his mid-30s, then showed Deputy J.A. Smith a cooler full of drugs that included included digital scales, 16 Suboxone packs and patches, marijuana, 19 grams of ecstasy and 158 pain pills. 

The man admitted he was a heavy drug user, had watched the President's speech and wanted to live a drug-free life for his mother.

It is kind of hard to call a President "ineffective" if just by talking on TV he can get drug abusers to turn themselves into the police.

I mean there is regular inspirational, and then there is President Obama inspirational.

3 year old kills himself with gun his mother carried in her purse.

Courtesy of CBS News:  

A 3-year-old boy had been playing with a handgun he found in his home before fatally shooting himself in the chest with it, police said Friday. 

In audio tape of a 911 call released by Hamilton police, a woman identifying herself as the mother of Marques Green said she carried the gun in her purse and had set her purse down after getting home. 

"My son just shot himself, and I'm not getting a pulse," Elizabeth Green screamed Thursday afternoon. "Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm not getting a pulse ... I don't think he's alive!"

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The woman told a 911 dispatcher the boy had shot himself "in the heart." The dispatcher gave her first aid instructions. 

"His eyes are open, but he's out," Green said. 

Police said the boy was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at a hospital shortly afterward. 

"Oh my God! Marques, honey!" the woman shouted in the call. 

TV footage showed a detective carrying a handgun out of the residence Thursday.

No doubt this is a gun that this woman purchased to keep herself and her child safe.

But guns are not designed to keep people safe, they are designed to kill.

And they do that with brutal efficiency. 

Georgian police chief who shot his wife claims he did so in his sleep.

Georgia police chief William McCollom

When I first posted this story yesterday I kind of thought it was a one time simple post that I would not really have to revisit again.

You know guy shoots wife, claims it was an accident, and will probably end up in jail.

Simple right?

Nope.

As it turns out police chief William McCollom's story is even more ridiculous than simply the fact that he claimed to have fired a gun at his wife twice by accident. He also claims he did this in his sleep.

This is from the newly released 911 tape presented courtesy of CNN:  

"Who shot her?" the 911 operator asked William McCollom, the police chief in Peachtree City, Georgia. 

"Me," McCollom replied. 

"How did you shoot her?" 

"The gun was in the bed, I went to move it, put it to the side, and it went off," McCollom said. 

"Is she awake?" 

"No, everybody was sleeping," McCollom said. 

"No, is she awake now?" "Yes," he said. 

Later in the call, the operator asked McCollom, "Were you asleep also when this happened?" 

"Yes," he said. 

I think my favorite part of this is when the operator asks "Is she awake now?"

You know I once was married to a woman who was an incredibly heavy sleeper, I mean nothing woke this woman up.

However I have to say that if I had shot her in her sleep that probably would have done the job.

So if this guy is telling the truth, he is saying that he literally sleeps with a hand gun in his bed and that, while he was asleep, he attempted to move it and it fired twice hitting his wife once.

Another interesting tidbit to add to the things that make you go "Hmmm," is the fact that this is the same woman that the police chief cheated on, divorced once, and is now recently back together with.

Yeah I think we are going to continue following this story.

George Zimmerman threatened girlfriend with shotgun. Kind of noticing a pattern here. Update!

Courtesy of CBS News:  

George Zimmerman is being held without bail on charges that he threatened his girlfriend with a shotgun. 

Zimmerman, 30, was taken into custody Monday afternoon following a disturbance call at a home in Apopka, Fla., about 15 miles from Orlando, according to Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma of the Seminole County Sheriff's office. 

In a 911 call released later Monday, Samantha Scheibe told police that Zimmerman had smashed a glass table, broken her sunglasses and pointed a shotgun in her face. 

"You put your gun in my freaking face," Scheibe is heard telling Zimmerman on the call. "Get out of my house. Do not push me out of my house. Please get out of my house." 

Seconds later, she can be heard telling the dispatcher, "He pushed me out of my house and locked me out. ... He knows how to do this. He knows how to play this game." 

After police arrived on the scene, Zimmerman placed his own 911 call. 

"I have a girlfriend, who for lack of a better word, has gone crazy on me," Zimmerman said. He said that he never pulled a gun on his girlfriend, and that it was Scheibe who smashed a table at the home. 

He also told the dispatcher that Scheibe was pregnant with their child and that she had decided she would raise the child on her own. When Zimmerman started to leave, "she got mad," he said. 

When the dispatcher asked why Zimmerman had called 911 instead of talking to the police officers who were outside the home, he said, "I just want everyone to know the truth." 

Lemma told reporters that the girlfriend told police she is not pregnant.

Here is a link to the police conference, with a few more details.

Let's face it this guy thinks he can get away with anything, and will not stop being a danger to his community and anybody who gets close to him until he is locked away.

Update: Here is video of Zimmerman's arraignment during which we learn that he had also choked his girlfriend a week and a half ago. 

I would expect nothing less from a POS who needs a gun to make him feel like a man.

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Okay so the lawyer says that Zimmerman had a gun, but the police did not find one?

So what is this, bad police work, or did Zimmerman get somebody to take his gun and hide it for him before they arrived.

I am very interested to know what that I-Pad recorded and if THAT was why Zimmerman tried so hard to destroy it.

When murderous intent meets calm compassionate courage. The Georgia school shooting that DIDN'T happen.

Courtesy of ABC News:

The suspected gunman who terrorized an Atlanta-area elementary school, firing in the front office and at officers, was armed with an assault rifle and nearly 500 rounds of ammunition, police said today. 

Michael Hill, 20, the lone suspect, allegedly entered Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., Tuesday carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and several magazines and ammunition, said Chief Cedric Alexander of the DeKalb County, Ga., Police. 

"He walked in with 498 rounds of ammunition. Fortunately, this came to an end quietly, without incident," Alexander said at a news conference. "I think we can all make a reasonable assumption he came here to do some harm."

Instead the 20 year old gunman encountered bookkeeper Antoinette Tuff, whose presence of mind and calm demeanor enabled her to reduce the number of deaths to zero.

Here is the 911 call you have to hear to believe.

I could not help but imagine what might have happened if instead of encountering this courageous, compassionate woman, Hill had encountered an armed guard or teacher with a concealed weapon.

How many would have died then?

Of course it is almost impossible to predict the behavior of somebody who is willing to enter a school with the intent to start shooting, but in this case an armed response would have definitely ended in at least one death, if not many many more.

This woman is my hero of the day.

Update: I think somebody needs to confront NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre and tell him that "The only thing that stops a bad man with a gun, is a good woman with a compassionate heart."