When any moron with a gun.........

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Nothing to see here. Nope, we don't need no stinkin' regulations.

H/T Daily Kos user gloriasb

 

Tue Jul 23, 2013 at 12:03 PM PDT

Gun-totin' property owner kills a guy for urinating on his gravel bar

 

More stupid gun tricks: Yesterday, a man who owns a piece of property along Missouri's Meramec River, was pissed off when a guy on a casual canoe trip pissed in the woods behind "his" gravel bar, so he got his gun and shot the unarmed urinater in the head and killed him.

News reports note that "ownership" of gravel bars along the river is often a murky deal. Nonetheless, the shooter took the law into his own hands and killed an innocent person. Did he think he had the right to protect "his" property by killing someone? Did the Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin killing influence him? We don't know.

The law isn't clear. And here's the kicker, [as reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch] :

A lawyer from Ozark, Mo., Harry Styron, has researched extensively the topic of property rights along streams and rivers.“These cases are really very confusing. They are difficult to interpret,” Styron said. “You are on private property, but you have a right to be there if it’s a navigable stream and as long as you are on a gravel bar that is submerged during parts of the year, because it’s part of the stream bed.”
The property issues can be hard to sort out, he said. But either way, he said, “it obviously doesn’t have anything to do with people shooting people. We don’t have a stand-your-gravel-bar law yet.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/23/1225970/-Gun-totin-property-owner-kills-a-guy-for-urinating-on-his-gravel-bar#