Man dies, woman hurt in Tacoma hammer attack, police say

Seattle Times ^ | September 8th, 2015 | Seattle Times staff/AP

[djwright]

TACOMA — Tacoma police say a man has died and a woman was seriously hurt in a hammer attack; a suspect has been arrested.

[djwright]

Isn't it time we close the hardware store loophole and have common sense hammer control.

[P-Marlowe]

There needs to be a 7 day waiting period to buy a hammer and the customer needs to pass a hammer safety test and get personalized training in the safe use of the hammer and to go to the construction site and hammer at least 200 nails before being certified.

And then there’s the open carry problem. A lot of toolbelts have hammer holsters that are worn on the outside.

[Delta 21]

Every hammer, is by definition, an ASSAULT HAMMER.

[Cen-Tejas]

...........I was thinking all carpenters will now have to get a “hammer carry license”...................

or, confiscate all hammers immediately! Achtung!

[Vic S]

The problem is that the hammer didn’t have a safety, obviously.

[Right Brother]

If only one of these signs had been posted:

[djwright]

Ban full-auto nail guns.

[Texas Eagle]

You people agitating for hammer control need to consider the bigger picture. If you outlaw hammers.......

[Texas Eagle]

I lived in Tacoma back in the 70s when they instituted needle exchange programs. I'm sure by now Tacoma is completely devoid of Hep-C and AIDS cases attributable to heroin use.

Obviously it's time for Tacoma to enact a turn-in-your-hammer program.

[BenLurkin]

Police sketch of the suspect: http://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=JN.A2G8U6mnNQw%2bwdeb5MsVGg&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0

[DoughtyOne]

Ban hammers and only crooks will have hammers.
Sound like a joke until you think about it.  It's no funnier than when the topic is guns.









FREEPATHON
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moving the last piece

[Mastador1]

Damn ten posts and no one has hit the Hammer Time button, let me be the first.........I hope.

[llevrok]

ball peen hammers are a gateway tool to claw hammers.

[TheDon]

I don’t think this article is correct because Tacoma is a hammer free zone.

[USNBandit]

[Calpublican]

And what about tire irons!!!

[Calpublican]

And what about tire irons!!!

Hammers ugly cousin.

[Mastador1]

Thank you, thank you very much!

[brothers4thID]

... Thor’s going to be pissed?

[21twelve]

I’m guessing the proposed drop-off box for guns that Tacoma is thinking about can do double duty for hammers.

All joking aside - what a horrific attack. I think I would rather be killed by a gun than a hammer.