I'm unearthing them for you:
"Shooting by 9-year-old girl stirs debate over guns" by Jacques Billeaud and Gene Johnson | Associated Press August 28, 2014
PHOENIX — The accidental shooting death of a firing-range instructor by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi has set off a powerful debate about youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle a submachine gun.
That is a way to demonize them right from the start.
Instructor Charles Vacca, 39, was standing next to the girl Monday at the Last Stop range in White Hills, Ariz., about 60 miles south of Las Vegas, when she squeezed the trigger. The recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, and Vacca was shot in the head.
Investigators said they do not plan to seek charges.
Gerry Hills, founder of Arizonans for Gun Safety, a group seeking to reduce gun violence, said that it was reckless to let the girl handle such a powerful weapon and that tighter regulations regarding children and guns are needed.
Here they come again.
I'm wondering what staged and scripted hoaxes or false flag psyop school shootings they have planned this year.
‘‘We have better safety standards for who gets to ride a roller coaster at an amusement park,’’ Hills said. Referring to the girl’s parents, Hills said: ‘‘I just don’t see any reason in the world why you would allow a 9-year-old to put her hands on an Uzi.’’
The identities of the girl and her family have not been released.
Sam Scarmardo, who operates the outdoor range in the desert, said Wednesday that the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby, video-recording their daughter, when the accident occurred.
Investigators released 27 seconds of the footage showing the girl from behind as she fires at a black-silhouette target. The footage, which does not show the instructor being shot, helped feed the furor.
‘‘I have regret we let this child shoot, and I have regret that Charlie was killed in the incident,’’ Scarmardo said. He said he does not know what went wrong, pointing out that Vacca was an Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.
How ironic. Not even the VA killed him.
In 2008, an 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with an Uzi at a gun expo near Springfield, Mass. Christopher Bizilj was firing at pumpkins when the gun kicked back. A former Massachusetts police chief whose company co-sponsored the gun show was later acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.
See: Massachusetts Jurors Deliver Justice With Uzi
Two gun experts said Wednesday that the types of firearms a child can handle depend largely on the strength and experience of the child — though the notion of giving a 9-year-old a fully automatic Uzi made some queasy.
‘‘So much of it depends on the maturity of the child and the experience of the range officer,’’ said Joe Waldron, a shooting instructor and legislative director of the Washington State Rifle and Pistol Association.
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I'm wondering what sort of people would do this?
"Woman unearths past of forgotten Indian cemetery; Tribes unhappy about woman’s burial site work" by Felicia Fonseca | Associated Press August 29, 2014
WINSLOW, Ariz — A dusty, barren field in the shadow of a busy Arizona interstate was for decades a place where children played freely, teenagers spooked themselves on Halloween, and locals dumped trash, seemingly unaware of the history beneath them.
Arizona is AmeriKa.
Inside cotton sacks, burlap bags, and blankets buried in the ground are the remains dating back to the 1930s of stillborn babies, tuberculosis patients, and sick and malnourished Native Americans from Winslow and the nearby Navajo and Hopi reservations.
Uh-oh.
It’s hard, if not impossible, to know where each grave, some just 18 inches deep, is located at the Winslow Indian Cemetery. The aluminum plates and crosses that once marked them were trampled on, washed away, or carried off.
It was no place to mourn, thought local historical preservationist Gail Sadler, before she made it her mission to unearth the identities of the roughly 600 people buried there and help their descendants reconnect with their history.
I'm having a hard time doing that since everything I've been taught and told is either a huge distortion or gigantic lie.
‘‘If anyone is searching for family, I don’t want these little ones to be lost,’’ said the soft-spoken child welfare worker.
What she learned, however, was that not everyone wanted to reconnect.
Her Mormon belief about the value of knowing one’s ancestry suddenly came up against traditional Navajo beliefs about death as something one rarely discusses, and Navajo and Hopi tradition about not visiting burial sites.
Some warned her that she risked inviting evil spirits if she continued her pursuit of the dead.
I do it every time I bring a Globe back with me.
Sadler, 58, said she was both heartbroken — and appalled — at the condition of the cemetery when she first laid eyes on it in 2008, soon after she had been appointed to the Winslow Historic Preservation Commission.
She said she was moved by a ‘‘sweet spirit’’ and a desire to restore respect and dignity to the burial ground, with a better security fence and a monument. ‘‘It just struck me that it was going to need a champion or nothing would be done,’’ she said.
May they (and we) now rest in peace.
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We are getting ready to bury something around here, too.
Even the sports talk guys on NESN were on John Henry about what a public relations press release the Globe has become -- and they were only talking about the sports section!
