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In reply to the discussion: Thanks Gov. Deal. I just saw an armed man walk into a supermarket. [View all]pnwmom
(110,261 posts)and pull it out and use it in a park, in a move that I would call crazy. He would call it "defending himself."
This happened here a few years ago, in a state park in a family picnic area with children present. One shot got fired and suddenly multiple guns were being pulled out and used. Two people died and four others were wounded. A bunch of idiot men being macho.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2012385325_sammamish18m.html
Ed Boyle, Swedish Medical Center spokesman, said a 29-year-old man with gunshot injuries was treated at Swedish's emergency facility in Issaquah, which is close to the entrance to the park, and was transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Two other wounded men were also taken to Harborview; the fourth was taken to Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Urquhart said.
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"I thought some kids were setting off firecrackers, but 30 seconds later, I saw three cops driving down the street," Austin Hilliker said. "I saw three people arrested, two of them no more than 20 feet from our car. It was super scary. It's shocking."
The family waited two hours to leave the park, as police stopped every vehicle on the way out, Dawn Hilliker said. "There were families everywhere. There was a birthday party to the left of us, and a family get-together to the right. People were playing volleyball, and everybody in the park was having a really great time. And the next thing you know, the cops came in."