Wednesday, February 24, 2010  Anti-gun sentiment in NWH  An
article in this morning's Northwest Herald illustrated the anti-
gun sentiment prevalent with so many newspapers. The article, on
page 3A under State Briefs, reported the shooting death of a
28-year-old woman in Joliet, Ill., while her 8-year-old daughter
was in the back seat of her parked car.  The woman's car was
parked in a Joliet driveway early Tuesday morning, when, as the
article stated, "two men approached the vehicle and fired nine
shots from an automatic handgun."  Well, there's a lot wrong
with that sentence.  Did the "two men" fire the nine shots? One
would have had to fire some, but not all, of the nine rounds and
then hand the gun to the second man, who would have fired the
remainder of the nine rounds.  Or did two men approach, and
(only) one fired nine rounds?  But the part that got me was the
adjective used to describe the handgun - an "automatic" handgun.
Have Joliet police already identified the gun that was fired? I
suspect the rep