One of the many reasons why I would never let my four-year-old son have a gun is that he has the emotional fortitude of a four-year-old. He’s right where he’s supposed to be. We are proud of him. But we are not going to give him a weapon. Unfortunately, there are many grown-up people with the emotional fortitudes of children, and they are allowed to own guns.
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Vernon police have arrested a man accused of firing a gun into a bathroom because he thought someone was taking too long using the facilities.
Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, police were called to the Portico 1 Villa Apartments, 142 Vernon Ave., in the area of apartment #80 for a report of a highly intoxicated man who shot a gun inside an apartment.
The suspect is a 22-year-old man, Shawn Cummins, who clearly has a problem with being
intoxicated.
While they were hanging out, Cummins became upset when someone wouldn't get out of the bathroom, then took out a 9mm handgun he had concealed in his waistband and fired one round into the closed bathroom door, just missing the person inside, police said.
Cummins then left the apartment and fired a second shot into the outside wall of the apartment complex.
He was arrested and has been charged with a variety of offenses—he’s also had his permit seized.