ANOTHER MOSTLY PEACEFUL WEEKEND.

In Chicago,  14-year-old boy among 5 killed in weekend shootings in Chicago, 34 other people wounded, including 6 teens.

In Milwaukee,  Two people shot and killed on the northwest side of Milwaukee.  The Journal-Sentinel also helpfully notes,   "The driver suspected of plowing through the Waukesha holiday parade Sunday —  killing five people and injuring nearly 50 others — had an ongoing domestic violence case and was out of custody after prosecutors recommended an "inappropriately low" bail in the case, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office said Monday."  "Inappropriately low" bail is the latest "mostly peaceful protests?"

Meanwhile, over half a million heavily armed people took to the North Woods in quest of deer. or at least that was their story.  I had to dig around in the search engines to find out what happened.  The top story is apparently an elk that was collateral damage, in Columbia County, where elk are protected.  "The [Department of Natural Resources] has not said if that person is from Wisconsin."  I did find a report of somebody carelessly cleaning a rifle indoors.

A 9-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to his leg when a man's rifle was accidentally discharged during a cleaning, according to the Door County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's office reported that when a 45-year-old man mishandled his gun while cleaning it, a shot fired and struck the boy Sunday morning in the Town of Nasewaupee. The child was lying on the couch at the time.

The child was airlifted to a Green Bay hospital to be treated for his injuries.

I also found an editorial out of far northern Antigo suggesting that public officials aren't paying careful enough attention to the risks associated with hunting from tree stands.

The Wisconsin DNR doesn’t investigate how treestand accidents happen, and hospitals aren’t required to document the injuries and their outcomes. In contrast, the DNR is required to thoroughly investigate, and hospitals document, every shooting incident. Those data tell us that Wisconsin averaged 0.75 gunshot deaths annually during the past decade’s deer seasons.

Thus, if a hunter had been shot during the opening weekend, we would likely have heard about it.