Poor Wayne LaPierre – every time he seems to get a little traction, another gun patriot shoots up an office or a school. Texas yesterday, now this:

Well, what do you think it equals?

A 69-year-old war veteran and former missionary was arrested over the weekend on the suspicion of killing a 22-year-old Cuban immigrant who mistakenly arrived in his driveway because of faulty GPS directions.

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Friends who were in the car with Diaz told WSB-TV that they were trying to pick up a friend on the way to ice skating on Saturday but their GPS directed them to the wrong address. The friends said that they waited in the driveway for a few minutes before Sailors emerged from the house and fired a gun into the air.

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TBogg: “…and he learned that it is not considered ‘well mannered’ to call a retiring Supreme Court a ‘goat-fucking child molester‘. Or threaten to kill census takers. Or being such an obvious racist. Or a misogynist.” And – wait for it – he’s headed to Fox News. [FDL]

A former top aide to Mitt Romney says that she quit her career as a television pundit and began taking online real estate classes after the former Republican presidential nominee’s “brutal” loss to President Barack Obama. Bay Buchanan, the sister of former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, told the Washington Examiner that Romney’s defeat was a sign that it was time for her to find a new career. [Raw Story]

Our guest columnist has not been known to cook his rival’s parents into chili.

Correction: January 28, 2013

An earlier version of this column misstated a plot point in “South Park.” While the character Kenny was once killed in every episode, that is no longer the case. The earlier version also misstated the circumstances of his repeated deaths. While he has met his fate in a variety of ways over the years, he was not routinely “ritually sacrificed.”

Fortifying the Empire ‘South Park’ Built [NYT]

“(CHICAGO) (WLS) — A shooting early Saturday morning in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood claimed the life of one man and wounded another. The slain victim is the son of a woman who has now lost all [four] of her children to gun violence.” [ABC-Chicago]

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