Woman shot dead by neighbor for mowing her lawn too late at night

[tenderfoot]

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SHERIFF: Huron County woman shot dead by neighbor for mowing her lawn too late at night



WILLIARD, Ohio - A Williard woman is dead after a neighbor shot her for mowing her lawn too late at night, the Huron County Sheriff's Office said.

Linda Ciotto, 62, was found outside her Kirkwood Drive home just after 11 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Deputies tried to make contact with 50-year-old James Blair, who was next door, but he had barricaded himself in his home.

Blair refused to come out of his home for five hours, deputies said. After negotiations failed, deputies report that they deployed tear gas and Blair was arrested.

more: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-huron/sheriff-huron-county-woman-shot-dead-by-neighbor-for-mowing-her-lawn-too-late-at-night

[Fred Sanders]

1. ISIS is a mere annoyance compared to the clear and present danger of 320 million guns mainly in the paws of mongrels like this.

Guns laying around in numbers like grains of sand on a beach make killing your neighbour and yourself SO much easier....and so much more final.

Fucking NRA must go the way of the Dixie Swastika.

[RiverLover]

4. +1

This may be one of the only major things we agree on FS, but I'm 110% with you here! Too many unstable & stupid people (majority repubs) who are armed & dangerous in the US. Much bigger threat. Well said.

[malaise]

5. Bravo NRA

You win!!!

This is madness

[whathehell]

9. Actually, only about a third of Americans are gun owners, so it's most unlikely that

their numbers equal that of the citizenry of 320 million.

There are a lot of guns in the US, but that's because the distinct minority

who do own them, tend to own more than one..

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/04/a-minority-of-americans-own-guns-but-just-how-many-is-unclear/

[L0oniX]

21. DU polls on gun ownership that I have seen a few years ago were about 50%.

[TeddyR]

13. So your first post in response to a senseless murder

Is to blame the NRA and "320 million guns"? How about you give it a rest? And if you are so fired up about getting rid of guns then drum up the support to make it happen. Wait, we both know THAT won't happen, so . . . I guess you just get to keep blaming every murder on the NRA and "gunz," and ignore the human criminals actually responsible for these crimes.

[ish of the hammer]

25. the NRA does not care how many people are kiulled

The NRA has a POLITICAL agenda. the NRA sucks unless you are a fascist republican thug!

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Man oh man but you have a knack for hyperbolic bullshit.

[Person 2713]

2. couldnt shout out the window at her, leave a nasty note on her door ? No now it's shoot any

one that annoys

[shenmue]

3. :(

[TeeYiYi]

6. I'd be willing to bet...

...there was already bad blood between them.

TYY

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. yes, and she was mowing at night as payback

RIP

[TeeYiYi]

11. Probably...

...

If you ever watch the daytime court shows, they're full of neighbor disputes. Seriously sad and disturbing.

TYY *may she rest in peace*

[MH1]

17. I guess, but geez.

No you don't shoot someone for being loud at night, you call the cops.

But who the eff mows their lawn at 11 pm?

So yeah must have been something between them already, OR she was stoned or something.

Either way no reason to shoot her in the head. RIP.

[TeeYiYi]

23. Exactly...

He could have called the cops regarding noise ordinances. It must have been personal.

Completely unnecessary loss of life.

TYY

ETA: I also suspect alcohol was involved.

[Logical]

7. Republican or Democrat? Any guesses? NRA member? Any guesses? nt

[TeddyR]

14. This guy?

I'd guess Republican, but there are way fewer NRA members than folks like to believe.

[onehandle]

8. This is exactly what guns are for.

Gun culture wants to 'be the law.'

[bluedigger]

12. Another sacrificial victim to The Cult of the Gun.

[TeddyR]

15. "Cult of the gun"

What exactly is that? I mean, specifically, what is the "cult of the gun"? I'd like to know to make sure I'm not part of that cult, and can stay out of its way.

[bluedigger]

26. From a recent column by The Rude Pundit.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

One of the common identifiers is a fierce need to defend the 2nd Amendment, even to the point of joining a liberal forum to repeat NRA talking points.


Welcome to DU!

[madinmaryland]

16. Another responsible gun owner, until he wasn't. Wash, rinse and repeat...

Over and over and over and over and over.

Fuck the nra.

[L0oniX]

19. Wait till he finds out how noisey it is in prison.

[navarth]

20. Well he certainly looks intelligent...

looks like a sure enough gun masturbator.

[mythology]

22. I have had my neighbor mow his yard while I had a major migraine

and while I kind of wished one of us would die in the moment (I wasn't especially picky about which one of us given the migraine), it never occurred to me that I should go get a gun and shoot him.

Unfortunately people with guns often make very stupid decisions which have permanent consequences. I don't get it. Were we always this unbelievably stupid with guns, or has it gotten worse?

[SheilaT]

24. But guns make us safer, right?

[Fred Sanders]

27. The gun lover gun owner is still alive, that is all that matters to the pathetic gun clinging crowd.

[Sissyk]

28. Locking.

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