Alcohol and guns. Never a good combination.

It´s a good thing she shot her dead brother. Otherwise, she would be in trouble.

She shot her dead brother? Hmmph, something fixed with the headline methinks!

To "shoot dead" someone is a Brit construction. Move past it to the story.

Drunks should not be playing with loaded guns.

Darwin by proxy.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

...sad, but I get the feeling that these are not your typical responsible, well-trained gun owners. Dims will see stories like these as ammo (sorry) for gun control. I propose lunatic control and now possibly ´wannabe gansta control´.

Oops. Ban stupid people.

In times gone by, stupidity, ignorance, outlawry, and insanity were rewarded with early death. Now, our safety net is so thick that natural selection has been subverted, except in this particular case. Chainsaws make better toys than guns in the hands of drunks.

Was this a legally registered weapon? Had the idiots had any training?

Why did she shoot her dead brother?

Put a gun in the hands of someone who isn´t used to handling them, and their finger will IMMEDIATELY go to the trigger. Further, the only responsible way to hand a gun to someone is with the magazine removed and the chamber open to show it is not loaded AFTER sticking your finger in the chamber and the barrel to confirm your visual inspection. Alcohol, loaded weapons, inexperienced users....whoever owned that weapon and allowed it to be passed around has at lot to answer for.

If he was dead, who cares if he got shot in the head.

Forget the gun, I think we should ban alcohol!

Look at the pictures. Is this safe weapons handling? Who taught them this was ok?

Before the trolls jump in, note that they bore the price for their own irresponsibility. None of my guns were involved, so banning them wont help.

On Sunday December 17, 2012, 2 days after the CT shooting, a man went to a
restaurant in San Antonio to kill his X-girlfriend. After he shot her, most of
the people in the restaurant fled next door to a theater. The gunman followed
them and entered the theater so he could shoot more people. He started shooting
and people in the theater started running and screaming. It’s like the Aurora,
CO theater story plus a restaurant!

Now aren’t you wondering why this wasn’t a lead story in the national media
along with the school shooting?

There was an off duty county deputy at the theater. SHE pulled out her gun and
shot the man 4 times before he had a chance to kill anyone. So since this story
makes the point that the best thing to stop a bad person with a gun is a good
person with a gun, the media is treating it like it never happened.
www.pakalertpress.com/2012/12/30/san-antonio-theater-shooting/

Rules for gun handlers number 1 through number 10. Never ever ever handle a gun while or after drinking. Rule #11, never ever ever put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to immediately shoot the gun. Rules #12 through #20, never ever ever aim a gun at anyone unless you INTEND to shoot them. See, twenty simple rules that any responsible gun owner knows and follows and that this idiot failed to follow.

Educated by Hollywood.

We need stricter "Sister Control Laws" asap.

Can not get past "shoots dead brother". Tragic, but even the Brits don´t write like that. More tragic, of course, is what happened.

FTA: On both Manuel and his sister´s Facebook pages there are numerous shots of them posing with guns and making gang symbols.

He was just a sweet boy in the neighborhood. Probably made the honor roll in public school too.

Aw, they must have forgotten to add the inevitable bit about how he "was just beginning to turn his life around".

The snooty Brits wrote that headline? I thought they were the IT in all things English.

Nice status update.

Where is the mother saying, "they are such nice kids. He was my baby!"(Not much point in asking about the father). Well, we know they are/were stupid kids. They are the welfare culture we are producing. We´re just lucky in this instance they killed each other instead of someone that would have grown up and contributed something to society. A sad thing but these are dead end stupid people. The truth hurts.

1. Hooray for Darwin.
2. Too bad posters think the "English" of Fox News or ESPN is in fact English, and can´t be bothered to comprehend the least difference in sentence structure or word use. The Brit use here is correct. The modest amusement it offers hardly rates a dozen posts.

On both Manuel and his sister´s Facebook pages there are numerous shots of them posing with guns and making gang symbols.

A win is a win.

Alcohol, guns, and stupidity, #1.

Hmm. My kids have been around guns for years (when I have them out of the safe to instruct them in firearm safety, take to the range or clean) and nothing like that has ever happened. Not even close. I´ve never even had an AD.

Guess I´m just lucky, right?

The gun is not the problem. The drunk idiot holding the gun is the problem.

Sad, but it appears that there is one less gangbanger in Phoenix. Hey, he is the one flashing gang signs in the picture. Maybe he was pretending or not really in a gang. But guns, drinking, gang signs are a sign that you may not be a law abiding, decent guy.

So I´m sure these little gangsters got their weapons legally.

Natural selection?

3500 miles and the English language make for interesting headlines.

The photos show someone with a gun who´s knowledge of gun safety is severely lacking.

Thank you, #4 and #26...construct is correct.

I´ll accept that the construct is technically correct. But..."shoots dead brother" surely implies that the brother was already dead.

Forget the guns and the alcohol - ban facebook. If there was no facebook he would still be alive.

#36, their should be some puntuation to make the headline more comprehensible. (I know I used the wrong form of there..or is it they´re)

Eats shoots and leaves.
Punks-you-ate that.

Sister needs to have her dead examined.

Verrrry tragic morons.
Still... morons.
And... moron is as moron does.

Sorry... forgot to add...

Ya can´t fix moron.

Was Thompson drinking when he wrote that headline?

Ban heads. That will put a stop to these needless incidents.

BUt they both voted for Obama.

#1 rule in handling a gun. Never point it at anyone, loaded or not.

Confusing headline for a tragic story. One can infer she shot her brother´s corpse.

I don´t want to make light of this, however. In far too many urban areas and their neighboring towns, thug elements like to celebrate the new year by shooting their guns randomly and otherwise playing with them. It´s no fun to do this, of course, unless they´re drunk, high or both. Stories like this are the result.

If there hadn´t been a photo of this, this woman may not have been arrested. No one around her would want to snitch, you know.

#36: You are welcome.

#37: Not "technically correct," but correct. The fact that this particular correct usage is more common in Britain than here is mere happenstance.

Consider: if it read "accidentally shoots
brother in the head" the question of whether he lived is open. The headline´s use of "shoots dead" closes that issue. The construction is therefore not simply correct, but superior to typical American practice.

Obama vows to overrule Darwin´s Law.

I wish I had not looked at the photos.

Just the people you want living next door.
Any bets on gun registration ?

Actually, I think the superior way to fix the headline would be to say "shoots brother dead". But what do I know? I´m an American.