Can i own a fire-arm and still Be a hippie

KOLKATA: Another young life was lost on Sunday due to lack of adequate security around the city's water bodies.

A week after 10-year-old Vicky Malik drowned at the unguarded tank inside the Nandan complex, a 12-yearold boy drowned at the College Square swimming pool while trying to sneak into the pool for a bath.

Sandip Panda was taken to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital where he was declared brought dead, the police said.

A resident of the nearby Beniatola Lane, Sandip had gone to College Square with three of his friends around 1.30 pm.

“Due to the rains, the water level at the pool had risen. So lately, the pool was not being used for swimming. In the absence of members from the swimming clubs at the square, locals bathe in the tank on the sly. Sandip and his friends, too, went for a bath at the pool,” said a local resident.

According to Sandip’s friend Nikhilesh Mondal, the friends had decided to go to the pool simply because it was a holiday. While the others played on the pathway around the pool, Panda went for a dip.

According to a witness, there were others in the pool at the time. But suddenly they spotted two policemen.

The children ran away and other bathers, too, clambered out of the water and fled. But, Sandip, not a good swimmer, panicked and moved towards the deep end. No one noticed the boy slowly drowning.

His friends raised an alarm when they found him missing. Local people rushed to the pool and fished him out.

At the hospital, irate family members and friends claimed the boy could have been saved if doctors had intervened on time. They were restrained after the intervention of the police.

According to Bhaskar Sinha, secretary of the Vidyasagar Udyan College Square Welfare Society, it is difficult to stop outsiders from bathing at the tank as it is on KMC property.

Security staff employed by the Society, a forum of the six clubs at College Square, were often heckled and outnumbered by large groups of bathers, resulting in their withdrawal on June 4.

However, the police were requested by the Society to keep vigil. On Sunday afternoon, the policemen had come to the pool for a routine patrol.

“We have written to the KMC to empower our security staff to prevent outsiders from entering the pool,” Sinha said. Sunday’s tragedy has prompted the KMC to give the Society the go ahead.

Speaking to TNN, MMIC (Parks) Hridayananda Gupta, “We will allow them (the Society) to appoint four security personnel to check the entry of outsiders. We have plans to increase the height of fencing around the pool to eight feet.”

 

Looks like more needs to be done about swimming pools.i don't know how recent these articles are,but there seems to be quite a few of them.Cars are another sore spot that need attention.Lightening,you gotta talk to your god about that one.Now back to the subject guns and hippies...

 

yes we can go back to rural U.S circa 1800s little crime back then ,no car accidents, no swiming pool .....but they still keept a gun around.

 

Killed in car accidents 42,116*
Killed by the common flu 20,000*
Killed by murders 15,517*
Killed in airline crashes
(of 477m passenger trips) 120 (1)
Killed by lightning strikes 90*

Killed by Anthrax 5


(1) Annual average over 19 year period.
*Average annual totals in United States.

 

God got nothing to do with lightnings.

 

If Moses could part a sea he would no problems at all taking care of the Iranian nuclear project.

 

Swimming Pool-Related Drownings & Injuries

By Gerald M. Dworkin

October 6, 1998

Note: The following information was compiled through the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Spa and Pool Institute, the National Safety Council, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and AQUA Magazine.

Although showing a slight downward trend, U.S. pool-related drownings have see-sawed for the past several years - despite reinforcement of safety messages in the media.

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Year​

Deaths​

1990
1991
1992
1993
1994​

1,991
2,066
1,838
1,974
1,851

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These causes of injuries and their numbers were reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1995:

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Causes​

Deaths​

• Swimming pools, cause not specified
• Swimming activity or apparel
• In-ground swimming pools
• Diving or diving boards
• Swimming pool equipment
• Swimming pool chemicals
• Above-ground swimming pools
• Swimming pool slides
• Wading pools
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51,835
36,258
23,590
12,078
5,732
4,060
1,827
1,669
1,345


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Every child can avoid becoming one of these numbers if proper precautions are taken. While it may seem like scare tactics, officials think that statistics may get people to change their behavior and make certain they are exercising safe pool conduct.

About 300 children under 5 years old drown yearly in residential swimming pools. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates hospital emergency room treatment is required for another 2,300 children under 5 who were submerged in residential pools.

Boys between 1 and 3 years old were the most likely victims of fatal drowning and near-fatal submersions in residential swimming pools.

Swimming pool drownings of young children have another particularly insidious features: these are silent deaths. It is unlikely that splashing or screaming will occur to alert a parent or caregiver that a child is in trouble. A toddler drowning in June in Anderson, Ind. didn't wake an adult sleeping near the pool, because the child didn't make any sound.

After motor-vehicle related deaths, drowning is the second leading cause of injury death for children (ages 1 - 19 years) accounting for 1,430 deaths in 1992. For children ages 0 - 4 years, drowning is the third leading cause of death!

In 1993, drowning rates for every age group were four times greater for males than for females. Drowning rates overall among blacks were twice those of whites. But among persons ages 1 - 4 years, the drowning rate among whites was twice the rate among blacks, largely because of drownings in residential swimming pools, says the CPSC.

According to the CPSC, each year emergency departments report about 500 drownings and 3,000 near-drownings among children under age 5 years in residential swimming pools. Sixty to 90 percent of drownings among persons ages 0 - 4 years occur in residential pools and more than half of these drownings occur at the child's own home.

In-ground pools without complete fencing are 60% more likely to involve drowning than are pools with fencing. So-called isolation pool fences that isolate the pool from the house are recommended by officials.


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After motor-vehicle related deaths, drowning is the second leading cause of injury death for children (ages 1 - 19 years) accounting for 1,430 deaths in 1992. For children ages 0 - 4 years, drowning is the third leading cause of death!

 

so lets register the swiming pool with the federal goverment . and put a $5.000 1 year permit this way only the rich can have a swiming pools. and Beaches are off limit.

 

Though there is a difference between choosing to swim and chosing to stand in front of a gun.Other than paying off bush's debt the $5,000 would only be a band-aid to the problem.pools can be a nuisance,an attractant to kids,breed misquitoes,and waste valuable resourses.

 

Yet as dangerous as swimming is, they choose to do that.

 

not sure.Here you want an apple or an orange.If it's all the same to you,i'd prefer you take the apple.Nothing like a good orange.

 

i'd like to say you're wrong but I see much truth sneaking under your words .

 

And if they invade my home, they CHOOSE to be in front of a gun.

 

your such a toughy for your type

WHO are these people invading your home?

 

hahahaha.. hippie has a ghat.. i dun think so.. i think you should run down to wally-world and pick up a super soaker.. i can see that.. but a real gun? nope i think you want to be something your not.. either your about peace and love.. or you're not.. no happy middle ground.. but that is my opinion..

 

but i want be about peace and love and kill things

 

The answer to the first question is no,but the question could be:Can you own a firearm and still be a leprichaun?It's all middleground...hippies are mythological.

 

4 Dead in Ex-Worker's Mo. Shooting Spree

By CHERYL WITTENAUER
Associated Press Writer
Posted April 19 2006, 6:42 AM EDT


ST. LOUIS -- From her spot in the kitchen at Finninger's Catering Service, employee Colette Meissner said she heard gunshots and then a man screaming the names of those he wanted to kill.

"Charlie!" she heard, the name of the business' owner, Charles Finninger. She quickly pushed the wheelchair-bound, elderly man into a walk-in cooler, she said, and huddled there with another employee as the shots continued.



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"I shut the door and we all stood in there and prayed," Meissner said.

After it became silent, Meissner walked out and found the inside of the building covered in blood, she said.

Police said the gunman was employee Herbert Chalmers Jr., who had killed the mother of his child, 53-year-old Sylvia Haynes, at her apartment Tuesday morning, then went gunning for his boss. In the end, they said, he killed three people before turning the gun on himself in the parking lot.

Police planned to spend Wednesday trying to figure out a motive. They said Haynes and Chalmers had a child together, but their relationship was unclear. Some co-workers said he may have been angered after being told his wages would be garnisheed to pay child support, and may have been fired after failing to show up for work on Monday.

Neighbor Byron Lovett said Haynes kept to herself.

"Not too many people knew her business," he said.

Cleo Finninger, 79, an owner of the business, and her daughter, 44-year-old Christine Politte, who oversaw payroll for the 50-person company, were shot in the garage area of the business, said Wellston Police Col. Maurice Brown. The business straddles St. Louis and the town of Wellston.

Another female employee who was shot was in stable condition, authorities said.

St. Louis police said the women who were killed were running away from the shooter with other employees, who fled out the back of the catering shop. The gunman was using a semiautomatic handgun.

Brown said Chalmers was overheard earlier Tuesday inside a Wal-Mart store bragging that he planned to shoot his boss. Wal-Mart employees called police, who arrived at the catering company around 1:30 p.m. as shots were being fired, Brown said.

Walter Harper, who owns Harper's Groceries down the street from the catering business, said he saw both women on the ground. Even after they were apparently dead, the gunman kept shooting, Harper said.

Employee Dawn Flowers, still wearing her red apron, cried as she recalled seeing the gunman enter through a back door carrying a duffel bag and a coat over his arm. She believed the coat was hiding the gun.

"I was hid; I was in the back cooking. He came through the back door just past me," Flowers said.

Finninger's has operated in St. Louis for about three decades, providing thousands of meals a day to senior centers and Head Start programs.

The workplace shooting was believed to be the worst in Missouri since July 2003, when Jonathon Russell 25, shot and killed three co-workers and wounded five others at the Modine Manufacturing Co. in Jefferson City, before killing himself.

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Associated Press Writers Christopher Leonard, Jeff Douglas and Jim Salter contributed to this report.

 

duh...
the people choosing to be in front of a gun