MT: Woman’s father shot aggressive boyfriend: "A woman’s father allegedly shot her boyfriend early Sunday morning at her parents’ Happys Inn-area residence in an incident that law-enforcement officials say involved alcohol. Scott Haskins, 38, of Olympia, Wash., was airlifted to Kalispell Regional Medical Center after sustaining non-life-threatening injuries from a gunshot wound to his upper back, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Roby Bowe. Haskins and his girlfriend’s father, 69-year-old Conrad Budd of Libby, had an altercation preceding the shooting. Haskins attempted to re-enter the residence after being told to leave, Bowe said, and Budd, who was standing outside the home, allegedly shot him with a handgun. Budd was detained and questioned about the incident but was later released."


A lefty apologizes for wanting to defend himself: "I remember my late friend Jim Boggs, a scholarly radical African American autoworker in Detroit. On my last visit to his home in a tough neighbourhood, Jim insisted on walking me to a corner bus stop on the way back to my hotel. Just before leaving the house, he calmly reached behind a marble bust of Karl Marx on the mantelpiece to withdraw a fully loaded .38 Saturday Night Special. Holding the gun by his side, as we strolled down the street in broad daylight, he said, 'Hey, I'm 100% for gun control. But I know this block. I'm no damn fool.'"