American Gun Ownership Highest In 18 Years

[Tonitrus]

Sheesh, and it's not like the guy lived on a secluded compound...it's pretty much town/row houses there.

[jimmy olsen]

This just got way weirder!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/23/jeffrey_alan_lash_los_angeles_late_man_s_common_law_wife_left_him_dead_in.html

A wealthy-seeming man who was about 60 years old died in a nice part of Southern California (Pacific Palisades in L.A., specifically). That's the normal part of this story. Everything else is not normal.

The man's body was found decomposing in a parked car.

No one initially could figure out who he was.

When he was tentatively identified, police found 1,200 guns and FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS  OF AMMUNITION in a home belonging to his fiancée, who says she was together with the man—named Jeffrey Alan Lash—for 17 years and that she believed he was a secret agent.

There are 14 vehicles registered to Lash, including one that can drive underwater.

He also had $230,000 in cash.

Lash's fiancée, Catherine Nebron, was with him when he died, in the parking lot of a grocery store, and she parked his body on a street and left because he told her one of the secret agencies he worked for would pick him up.

Then she went to Oregon with her friends.

The L.A. Times reached a woman named Shirley Anderson, the "longtime partner of Lash's late father," who said that the elder Lash owned a medical laboratory and that Jeffrey Lash attended UCLA in the 1980s but dropped out and, thereafter, never told Anderson or his father where he lived or what his phone number was.

Police say Jeffrey Lash had cancer when he died, though he told his fiancée/common-law wife that he was sick because he had been exposed to nerve-damaging chemicals during a mission.

[lustindarkness]

Will they make it a movie?

[derspiess]

Will they make it a movie?

If so, needs to star Owen Wilson.  He can basically do his Bottle Rocket role over again.

[Caliga]

If so, needs to star Owen Wilson.

That would be perfect! 

[Berkut]

Florida takes their shoot first, ask questions later law out for another spin.

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-shot-theatergoer-texting-invoke-stand-ground-124807512.html

Mr. Reeves was arrested for the fatal shooting of Chad Oulson in January 2014. Police say Mr. Oulson threw his bag of popcorn in Reeves' face after the former captain criticized him for texting. Reeves responded by pulling out his gun and shooting Oulson in the chest, according to law enforcement. A bullet also grazed Oulson's wife, Nicole.

"I think we have a pretty solid stand your ground case," Richard Escobar, Reeves' attorney, told the Tampa Bay Times.

What is crazy about this is that his lawyer is probably right. The law is so vague and ridiculous, that having popcorn thrown at you is probably, under Florida law, a reasonable threat that justifies killing someone.

[lustindarkness]

Popcorn to the face is a lethal weapon? Nice.

[Ed Anger]

This thread reminds me that I need to get to the range. Thanks Berk!

[lustindarkness]

I will find out more tonight (at a costume stock the bar party ) that for a friends' bachelor party we will go on a hog hunt (payback for that 4 OT football game).

[Malthus]

Popcorn to the face is a lethal weapon? Nice.

It's the unpopped bits at the bottom that are truly deadly.  Like buckshot, they are.

[Valmy]

This thread reminds me that I need to get to the range. Thanks Berk!

You have to be ready for whenever you have the urge to throw popcorn at some asshole.

[The Brain]

Florida takes their shoot first, ask questions later law out for another spin.

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-man-shot-theatergoer-texting-invoke-stand-ground-124807512.html

Mr. Reeves was arrested for the fatal shooting of Chad Oulson in January 2014. Police say Mr. Oulson threw his bag of popcorn in Reeves' face after the former captain criticized him for texting. Reeves responded by pulling out his gun and shooting Oulson in the chest, according to law enforcement. A bullet also grazed Oulson's wife, Nicole.

"I think we have a pretty solid stand your ground case," Richard Escobar, Reeves' attorney, told the Tampa Bay Times.

What is crazy about this is that his lawyer is probably right. The law is so vague and ridiculous, that having popcorn thrown at you is probably, under Florida law, a reasonable threat that justifies killing someone.

It will sink soon.

[Ed Anger]

This thread reminds me that I need to get to the range. Thanks Berk!

You have to be ready for whenever you have the urge to throw popcorn at some asshole.

Always have my CCW ready. 

[viper37]

This thread reminds me that I need to get to the range. Thanks Berk!

because a lot of crazy people have guns, you don't want to be the only crazy without one?

[The Brain]

Ed isn't crazy, silly. He's evil.