Violence!

I am amazed at how violent this town can be at times.

Saturday morning, before I even had a chance to do any slacking off, I was on my way to a reported murder in the city's Bolden area. A couple of old timers who were roommates at a LVHA old folks high rise got into it and one stabbed the other to death.

Then, before I even got to that one, there was another report from the far east side of the city of a shooting at a party. There were two people shot, so I hauled ass over to the old folks home, sprayed it, then flew to the east side, where there were three crime scenes.

I shoot each of the crime scenes and end up at a Denny's, where they found the suspect vehicle, with the suspect inside.

Yeah, apparently shooting someone made him hungry for some Moons Over My Hammy.

I was there chatting with Lt. McGraf, the watch commander who was kind of telling me what was going on. I asked him the status of the shooting victims. He was about to tell me, when his phone rings. After a second he walks back over to me.

"One just went 419. The other will be okay."

'Damn.' I thought. Just a couple of weeks ago I covered a shooting that happened at a party up near J Street. A 12 year old kid was shot and just recently died. And just last night (for some reason I didn't think to take a picture of it) there was a party in Northtown (North Las Vegas for those of you not in Vegas) that ended in gunfire. That kid was only shot in the leg and will be okay, but still.

What the hell happened to just fighting? You're pissed off at someone, kick his ass. Why the need to open fire into a crowd? None of these three party shootings seemed to end up with the intended target being shot. Just some innocent kid who was probably there simply to have a good time.

People have to think before pulling out the gun.

Come on, mother fuckers. Guns are not supposed to be offensive weapons, except in war. You people are going to cause people like me to lose our rights to own guns to protect ourselves from people like you!

If you feel that you absolutely, positively HAVE to use your piece on that person who is bothering you, challenge them to a duel. No need to fire blindly into a crowd. 10 paces, turn and fire.

Anyway, it's almost time to go see if tonight will be just as fucked up as this weekend was.