On Vanessa Circle on Saturday afternoon, Gretchen Schmidt and her husband heard a noise, then found an arrow on their bedroom floor.No, it's not Olivenhain again. This is New Encinitas just behind El Camino Real.
It was about 18 to 20 inches long with a metal tip. Brett Scott, owner of Willow Creek Archery, identified it as crossbow bolt, which can travel up to a quarter mile at high speeds.
The bolt pierced a screen, two glass panes and blinds, before landing feet from the bed.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Crossbow bolt fired into Encinitas home
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Using a firearm is the least popular way to die or be murdered, wonder where 'death by arrow' comes in?
ReplyDeleteAll suicides
Number of deaths: 42,773
Unintentional poisoning deaths
Number of deaths: 42,032
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 33,736
Unintentional fall deaths
Number of deaths: 31,959
All homicides
Number of deaths: 15,809
Firearm homicides
Number of deaths: 10,945
2/3 of all homicides are by firearm. Your numbers.
DeleteI'm not sure "popular" is the right word, but that's most of them.
10,945 firearm homicides = more than 3.5 times the number killed in 9/11 attacks. But it happens
Deleteevery
single
year.
Think of all the blood and treasure spent by the USA in response to 9/11. Now ask yourself why there isn't a proportional response to gun violence.
You say homicide like it's a bad thing. Homicide includes police shootings and self-defense.
DeleteYou fools, being shot by a gun is a very humane of being killed. What do you prefer to be bludgeoned to death by a baseball bat, rock or tire iron? How about a machete?
Deletehttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/04/21/machete-killer-receives-3-life-sentences/305869001/
Isn't the public "trail" under the high power lines close by?
ReplyDeleteCrossbows are illegal in California.
ReplyDeleteNot really.
Deletehttp://www.ehow.com/about_6461283_california-crossbow-law.html
Try showing one to a cop and see what happens...
DeleteBetter not tell your cop they're selling them at Big 5!
DeleteI have a friend that was carrying a baseball bat in his car a few years ago in Encinitas when he got pulled over and got arrested for not having ball and glove along with it, so it was considered a weapon.
ReplyDeleteUn-freaking believable but true.
You just never know what mood someone of authority may be in. He was not disrespecting of the officer either.
He wasn't speeding or driving erratically at the time. I think it was eventually dismissed after causing him lots of time and trouble.
Ridiculous, but it happened. You just never know.
Changing the subject, Encinitas Guerrilla is worth a read.
ReplyDeleteCB and BH, you paying attention? Take heed.
That is a riot and lets hope her mouth takes it as constructive. Well worth changing the subject for a minute. Thanks 12:58pm.
ReplyDeleteI have seen some look at their wrist watch and time her. That is telling. Maybe Catherine needs a gong to ring when the mouth runs on and on and on, ad infinitum.
It would be a service to us all. Concise may be a term the mouth is not familiar with.
Her newsletter is like a treatise. Thank goodness she puts a bullet point summary at the top.
DeleteTed Nugent was probably trying to murder some animal.
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