guns

After accepting an invite from the Evansville Police Department's weapons instructor, Chuck Knoll, Kat Mykals and I went to the depths of Warrick County to learn proper gun safety and shooting technique. Watch out bad guys (and cardboard targets)!

If you've been keeping up with the news, or at the very least, following Evansville Watch on Facebook and Twitter, then you know there's been an increase in "shots fired" reports in certain parts of the city. These reports have prompted Chief Billy Bolin to take extra steps to keep residents safe.

On Tuesday afternoon, a man in Dale County, Alabama, near Midland City, got on a school bus, demanded a child be let off with him, then shot and killed the bus driver when he refused. The shooter, identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes, then took the boy from the bus and is currently holed up with him in an underground bunker nearby.

If you thought American politics were nasty, you've haven't seen anything yet.

This week, a third grader sauntered home with a loaded Taurus 9mm gun in his backpack and showed it off to his mom. As it turns out, he bought the weapon from a classmate for $3 at their elementary school in Queens, NY.

It was another great night Saturday as local police officers and firefighters hit the boxing ring to hit each other for charity. The record crowd of 6,700+ people were nearly split down the middle of the stadium with those cheering for the "Guns" on one side decked out in blue and those pulling for the "Hoses" decked out in red attire on the other side of the ring.