Ding-Dong-Ditch Shooting

[Lighthawk]

A Kentucky man has been charged with attempted murder after he shot a 12-year-old boy in the back for ringing his doorbell during a game of Ding Dong Ditch.

Jason Eberle of Louisville, was playing the game, which involves someone ringing a doorbell and running away, on Monday night with friends. The New York Post reports that after the kids rang 56-year-old Michael Bishop's bell he came out onto his porch armed with a shotgun and opened fire, hitting Eberle in the back and shoulder.

Bishop was arrested and has been charged with attempted murder. The Louisville Courier Journal reports that he was released Tuesday night after posting $10,000 bail.

Eberle was hit in the shoulder and the back and suffered two collapsed lungs in the incident. He is currently being treated in hospital where his condition is described as "improving".

Eberle's uncle, Bart McMahon, told Kentucky's WLKY "It's outrageous, it's intolerable and that's why we have prisons for people who can't confine their behavior within the bounds of law."

"If he was so bothered, the best thing for him to do would have been to call the parents or yell at the kids. [The shooting was] not a self-defense maneuver; that is nothing but a flat-out assault on an innocent child."

Neighbor Wayne McDowell, speaking to WHAS11 described the horrific state of the boy's injuries.

"[Eberle] probably had 200 [shotgun pellet wounds]. Looked like he took 75 percent of the blast and his head was bleeding to where they had to hold towels on it. It wasn't good, just make you sick."

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[Mikey]

Yeah, let's keep lessening gun control laws.

Waiting period, my ass. What gun licensing needs to involve is a psychological profile. If you can handle yourself like a human being, get whatever you want, in any barrel length you want. If you can't, make do with a fucking slingshot.

[McAvoy]

Slingshots can kill though.

I agree with you. When it comes to guns there has to more strict controls than what we got.

[Mikey]

Slingshots can kill though.

I agree with you. When it comes to guns there has to more strict controls than what we got.

Just better ones. A person's right to own a firearm shouldn't be based on where he lives or whether he likes to hunt so much as it should be based on his capacity to own it responsibly.

[McAvoy]

I totally agree.

I still like Chris Rock's joke about making bullets $5,000 a piece and guns dirt cheap. Obviously it won't work but still.

[Foxfyre]

the parents should be allowed to use him for target practice.