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2006-01-24 - 2:34 p.m.
Yet one more reason NOT to go around carrying lethal weapons.
I'd really like to see a study of the IQs of NRA members vs. the general population...and then a comparative list of non gun owners, people who own one, two, three, four, and five or more guns
The New York Times
The initiation rituals at the Masonic lodge in Patchogue, NY had been bathed in secrecy over the years. The climax of the ceremony on Monday night, March 8, 2004 was to be a simple prank. A new member of the Fellow Craft Club, a select group within the lodge, would sit in a chair while an older member stood 20 feet away and fired a handgun loaded with blanks. That ritual went terribly wrong inside Southside Masonic Lodge No. 493, in a basement littered with rat traps, tin cans, a 9-foot-tall guillotine, and a setup designed to mimic walking a plank. The shooter, a 76-year-old Mason, Albert Eid, was carrying two guns, a .22-caliber handgun with blanks in his left pocket, and a .32-caliber gun with live rounds in his right pocket. He reached into his right pants pocket, pulled out the wrong gun and shot William James, a 47-year-old fellow Mason, in the face, killing him. Mr. Eid, a World War II veteran who had a license to carry his own pistol and often did, pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon to a charge of second-degree manslaughter and was released on $2,500 bail. He was wearing his blue Masonic jacket during his arraignment in Central Islip. (continued...)
Please note that 5/1/2003 was "Mission Accomplished" according to GWB.
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