More issues with Media Anti-gun Bias

Here's some stories of attempted mass murders that you may have missed because they didn't involve firearms and therefore were not sensationalized by the media.

Woman charged with driving into street festival

By Arlo Wagner

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Oxon Hill woman who drove her station wagon through a street festival in Southeast, injuring at least 40 persons, was charged with aggravated assault while armed, but police were still searching yesterday for an explanation for the bizarre episode.

"We're still trying to piece together exactly just what happened that led up to this," said Chief Cathy L. Lanier of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Police charged Tonya Bell, 30, of the 1300 block of Southview Drive in Oxon Hill, with assault while armed. They say she plowed her 1991 Volvo station wagon into residents Saturday night at the Unifest event along Martin Luther King Avenue Southeast.

Investigators are waiting for the results of drug and alcohol tests administered to Miss Bell at Greater Southeast Community Hospital, where she was treated for a sprained ankle.

Police Cmdr. Patrick Burke confirmed witness statements that Miss Bell appeared to have been smoking something and laughing as she drove through the crowd.

Police officials will subpoena the tests results today and give the case to the U.S. Attorney's Office, a department spokesman said yesterday. Additional charges are expected and likely to include assault on a police officer while armed.

No one was killed by the vehicle, which witnesses said went through the festival at about 8 p.m. D.C. fire department spokesman Alan Etter said authorities think the vehicle was going as fast as 70 mph.

Among the injured were several children and two police officers working the festival. Four-year-old Marcellus Jackson, whose leg was broken, was the only child who remained hospitalized.

40 people injured. And not a one of them shot by a firearm. Mowed down at 70 mph by a Volvo Station Wagon. Let's see - that would be one half 3051 lbs times 102 fps squared - that's 15871302 foot-pounds. A 9mm FMJ bullet would have one half 0.017714 lbs times 1145 fps squared which equals 11611 foot-pounds. Which has more potential to do harm? Those 40 people are lucky to be alive.

8-11-06 - A 77-year-old man accidentally drove his car into a crowd of fellow mosque-goers this afternoon in Hayward, sending five people to the hospital and leaving six with minor injuries.

Must be a loophole somewhere that allows a 77-year-old man obtain a driver's license. We should go after the people that sold him that automobile before they sell another deadly weapon to another 77-year-old!

7-9-06 - An 89-year-old man driving through a crowd at a summer festival panicked after striking one pedestrian and lurched his station wagon through the throng, injuring 27 people, city officials and witnesses said.

Stop the insanity!!! We must ban the sale of all vehicles weighing over 1500 pounds and capable of more than 35 mph!!! These weapons of death with which the automakers have flooded the market must be stopped!!!

5-29-07 - A Worcester man was arrested and charged with three counts of felony assault after, the police said, he drove into a crowd of people on Washington Street early Sunday.

Oh, the humanity! Why is America so enthralled with this automobile-lust? Can't anyone stop this evil?

3-4-06 - Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 23, drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee into the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon on Friday, and headed for the Pit, an open area surrounded by two libraries, a dining hall, and the student union. His SUV was going about 45 mph when Taheri-azar began intentionally hitting people in the crowd. Lauren Westate, a student who saw the incident, told reporters, "He was speeding up and swerving to hit people. One person got knocked out of a wheelchair, and he didn’t care." Sophomore Jeff Hoffman, his arm in a bandage, told reporters, "I see everyone kind of part because there’s a car coming through and the next thing I know, I’m on his windshield."

5932872 ft-lbs!!! To paraphrase Chucky Schumer, that's enough energy to pick you and 19 friends and carry you across the Pit!!! Chucky, what can we do to stop these would-be killers from striking again? Clearly, we must ban the SUV's!

5-21-07 - Southern California's illegal drag racing culture took another bloody turn early Sunday in Lancaster, when a passing driver veered into a crowd of spectators, leaving two men dead and three men hospitalized. Some onlookers then jumped into their cars, chased down the driver and held him for deputies, authorities said.

More carnage!!! When will our federal government step in to rid us of this scourge?

7-2-06 - MADISON, Ind. - A car plowed into a crowd Sunday at a speedboat race on the Ohio River, sending as many as a dozen people to a hospital, according to reports.

I can't take it anymore! We need car control now!!! Do it for the children!