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November 15, 2014 3:30 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

North Carolina police say a 13-year-old boy is dead after a gun discharged in a hotel room and the bullet went through a wall into another room, hitting the teen, ABC 11 reports.

[su_center_ad]The shooting happened around 11:00 p.m. Friday at a Comfort Suites hotel.

42-year-old Randall Louis Vater has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

The victim, an 8th grader, was identified as Nathan Andrew Clark of Lewisville, N.C.

Clark was in Raleigh to play in the Capital Area Soccer League (CASL) which has since been cancelled  by his team.

Some of the kids on the team were also staying in the hotel when the incident happened, according to ABC 11.

CASL released the following statement:

“We awoke this morning with great sadness to the unsettling news that Nathan Clark tragically lost his life late Friday night. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nathan’s family and to his extended soccer family: the North Carolina Fusion players, parents, and coaches. We find some solace knowing that a man has been charged in connection with this incident. However, we can only imagine the pain and sorrow the Clark family is experiencing in the wake of this tragedy. We respect their wishes for privacy during this difficult time.”

Clark attended the Calvary Baptist Day School in Winston-Salem. He was described as fun loving, energetic, and brought a joy and a special spark to the soccer team, by his coach.

“Heaven gained an amazing young man today. Nathan will be greatly missed by the whole Calvary soccer family. We love you Nathan,” Coach Kerth said.

H/T: The incomparable @CarlaAkins with thanks.[su_csky_ad]

D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

82 responses to Jerk’s Gun Discharges In Hotel, Bullet Goes Through Wall, Kills 13-Year-old Boy

  1. tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    Unfukingbelievable!But, hey, heaven has lax gun laws, too, so he should be comfortable there hunting with GOPGeebus.

    • Suzanne McFly November 15th, 2014 at 4:23 pm

      There are no gop members where that beautiful little boy is going.

      • tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 4:30 pm

        Sorry for my too subtle commentary on an idiot preacher saying the usual nonsense rather than railing against the loose gun culture of his part of the country. It’s sick that it is accepted without comment on the useless death by gun of an innocent child.

        • Suzanne McFly November 15th, 2014 at 4:38 pm

          I totally understood your comment tea, I was just saying the obvious for those who don’t 🙂

    • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 5:32 pm

      Supply-side Geebus packs heat!

      • tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 5:47 pm

        And, gives out wonder bread and bologna sandwiches to all who gather near him.

        • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 7:42 pm

          I just threw up a little…

          • tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 10:39 pm

            Good thing I didn’t mention the margarine and miracle whip!

          • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 10:44 pm

            Oh thank you! We could only afford one or the other (mayo vs miracle whip) when I was a kid, and I used to hate it when it was miracle whip month. Yech.

  2. Ol Blue November 15th, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    Sometimes there is a fine line between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.

    • Red Eye Robot November 15th, 2014 at 4:23 pm

      Apparently you didn’t read the “42-year-old Randall Louis Vater has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.” part

      What part of CONVICTED FELON ILLEGALLY IN POSSESSION OF A GUN says “good guy” to you?

      • Ol Blue November 15th, 2014 at 4:36 pm

        Did I say he was a “good guy”? Nope, didn’t. Thank you for proving my point though Robot.

        • Red Eye Robot November 15th, 2014 at 6:51 pm

          No you said there was a “FINE LINE” A felony conviction is a fine line? in addition, Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is a federal crime punishable by 10 years in prison, and jumps to 20 years if the gun is used in a crime. Is that also a fine line?

          • Ol Blue November 15th, 2014 at 8:40 pm

            Your beloved NRA has dissolved it into a fine line. You may thank them for that.
            “Support for €œRestoration € Programs. Prohibited under
            federal law from buying guns because of dangerous behavior? No problem,
            the NRA believes in second chances. In 1986, the NRA-drafted Firearm
            Owners Protection Act significantly altered federal law by allowing
            states to restore gun purchasing/ownership rights to convicted felons.
            Since that time, the NRA has lobbied aggressively
            in the states to establish such restoration programs.Today, restoration
            is automatic for non-violent felons in at least 11 states. Several
            other states allow violent felons to petition to have their gun
            purchasing/ownership rights restored.”
            http://csgv.org/blog/2013/how-the-nra-arms-criminals/

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:49 am

            Don’t waste your time on this idiot…resident nazi

          • Red Eye Robot November 17th, 2014 at 1:50 am

            Non Violent Felons? Are you now telling us Randall Louis Vater is a non violent felon that had his firearms rights restored? btw Max Baucus D Montana (the guy who pushed obamacare through the senate) was a Co sponsor of firearms owners protection act

  3. Jerry Angel November 15th, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    This guy needs to go to prison for a very very long time. Oh wait, this happened in North Carolina. No jail time, just probation is what I predict.

  4. Carla Akins November 15th, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    As parents, we do everything in our power to keep our kids safer – who can plan for these things. This may be unusual, but it’s no accident. An adult thought he had to have a loaded gun, although he clearly was proficient or responsible and another child is dead.

    • FrankenPC . November 15th, 2014 at 5:12 pm

      What do we do? Dress our kids in Kevlar 24 hours a day?

      • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 5:31 pm

        Well, that is the free market solution…

        • FrankenPC . November 15th, 2014 at 5:45 pm

          The power of cynicism is strong with you ;D

          • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 7:43 pm

            I’ve been watching this circus since the Eisenhower administration.

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:47 am

            and truth…like GMO’s …they are so good??? Label them and let the “Free Market” decide….

  5. GG_NV November 15th, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    A felon with a firearm. Another criminal that will be taught a lesson. See you at ClubFED….

  6. FrankenPC . November 15th, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    This is just heart breaking. This could just as easily been MY wife while we were on vacation somewhere innocuous. One minute we’re talking about our future and the next, she’s dead. That quick.

    • whatthe46 November 15th, 2014 at 6:08 pm

      same with this family right? how on earth could they possibly wrap their heads around this?

      • FrankenPC . November 15th, 2014 at 6:09 pm

        That’s what I mean. BOOM no goodbyes. Dead. This is the worst thing that can happen to the living.

  7. M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    Thanks, NRA, for helping to make sure that anybody anywhere can get a gun.

    • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 5:47 pm

      This guy did not buy that gun legally nor did he possess it legally. What’s it got to do with the NRA? Blame the scum bag felon with a gun.

      • tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 5:51 pm

        Everything to do with them! Thirty years of lobbying, lying and abusing the 2nd amendment led right to the point where some miscreant can carry a gun into a hotel and negligently kill a child. This is only the latest in a national epidemic of child murders that is blithely ignored by all who think they have some special rights to be armed anywhere, anytime, for any reason.

        • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 7:36 pm

          The only people abusing the second amendment is the anti-gun zealots in this country. No law “allowed” this scum bag to carry a gun anywhere, as a matter of fact he was explicitly forbidden to possess or carry one. When a liberal starts the crying and gnashing of teeth about “the children” being murdered……Well, if it wasn’t so sad it would be laughable. GFY

          • Anomaly 100 November 15th, 2014 at 8:08 pm

            Here’s the real problem: You. Thing is, when a kid gets shot, your party (the NRA party) doesn’t call them out. Shame of you. Shame on all of you. This is about a felon with a gun. YOU should be calling him out. Your ideology is so twisted that you don’t give a f*ck if a kid dies.

            “Anti-gun zealots”? Screw you. Screw your party for stomping all over the 2nd Amendment and distorting it beyond recognition.

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:43 pm

            Yes this is about a felon with a gun, “my party” just happens to be against felons with guns. How will this “calling him out” work? Have you read my comments here? Yes we do care about kids dying, born and unborn. How about you?

          • Anomaly 100 November 15th, 2014 at 9:15 pm

            Obviously I do or I wouldn’t have written the post. Obviously you do not or you wouldn’t have written yours.

          • whatthe46 November 15th, 2014 at 9:21 pm

            thank you.

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:46 am

            This clown is going to go back under his rock and brag about how many “libertards” he upset

            The merkin thing to do…

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 16th, 2014 at 12:26 pm

            Veiled bigotry….Nice.

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 12:32 pm

            Your avi says it all about you…that way to your rock

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 16th, 2014 at 12:41 pm

            Yes and yours as well.

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 12:50 pm

            At least I can show mine in public without being ashamed of it…Like show your children….wait better not they probably showed it to you LOL

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 16th, 2014 at 12:31 pm

            Yes I know you liberals have the market cornered on caring about “the children”.

          • Wiley Post November 16th, 2014 at 7:18 am

            If “my party” just happens to be against felons with guns” why do they block any bill or appointee that even speaks of “common sense” gun laws?

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 16th, 2014 at 12:21 pm

            20,000 laws on the books in this country to regulate and control guns. One more “common sense” gun law is going to fix the problem? The problem with your “common sense” is it makes no sense to make it harder for law abiding people to have and keep arms when you do nothing to control the people that are violent. Not one more law.

      • whatthe46 November 15th, 2014 at 6:07 pm

        WHAT?!!!!

      • tracey marie November 15th, 2014 at 6:53 pm

        how do you know, background checks are not mandatory for all purchases. personal sales, gunshows non dealers sales and more instances.

        • Leah Boule November 15th, 2014 at 7:13 pm

          We can’t even get our Surgeon General confirmed because of those bastards! Fox News and the NRA are the biggest pox on this country…

          • tracey marie November 15th, 2014 at 7:17 pm

            you are so correct

          • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 7:38 pm

            And thanks to the NRA and its sock puppets in Congress, the CDC is not even allowed to keep records and study the health effects of gun violence even though gun deaths and injuries are common.

            http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-ban-gun-research-caused-lasting-damage/story?id=18909347

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:21 pm

            “gun deaths and injuries are common”. You need a government funded study to tell you what you already know?

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:08 pm

            When a government appointee comes out and openly states he is opposed to an enumerated right, yes he will be opposed.

          • tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 10:48 pm

            No, you idiot, that’s not what he said. He did say, plainly and truthfully, that asking about guns in homes and counseling that they be secured, unloaded and empty of bullets is part of a family doctor’s practice due to the epidemic of gun injuries in homes with them.

          • Leah Boule January 10th, 2015 at 7:45 pm

            He said it was a ” public Health concern”. Guns ARE a health concern,many folks end up dead. He never said he was opposed to anyone’s “Right”.

        • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 7:24 pm

          I’ll tell you how I know Tracey. It is a felony for a convicted felon to attempt to buy a gun or ammo. It is a felony for a convicted felon to buy a gun or ammo. It is a felony for a convicted felon to possess a gun or ammo. So, I repeat, this guy did not buy that gun legally or possess it legally. Criminals don’t give a rats ass what the laws are. What makes you think mandatory background checks will lead criminals to abide by the law? They steal guns or buy them from their criminal aquatints.

          • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 7:36 pm

            Or they buy them at garage sales or from private parties or from gun shows, no questions asked.

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:06 pm

            Yes and your point is? It’s also illegal to unjustifiably kill or assault people with other things such as hammers, baseball bats, fists, knives and pressure cookers etc………should we require BG checks for the sale of those items as well?

          • MultiKdizzle November 16th, 2014 at 10:08 am

            “…hammers, baseball bats, fists, knives and pressure cookers”

            The more I read your comments the more in disbelief I am that someone with your intellectual aptitude lives in my country and possibly owns firearms. None of those items you listed are designed to kill people. Guns on the other hand are designed to emit projectiles engineered to eviscerate human tissue.

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 16th, 2014 at 12:12 pm

            I’m sure the victims of a beating with the listed items are comforted to know those items weren’t designed to eviscerate human tissue.

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:44 am

            You act like a felon cares about your BG checks…

          • Allan Kim Harrison November 16th, 2014 at 12:09 pm

            Did you read what I wrote?

      • M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 7:35 pm

        Thanks to the NRA, we do not have universal background checks or universal registration. As a result, a lot of guns just disappear into a black hole–until they shoot someone. So thanks, NRA.

        • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:17 pm

          Background checks and registration don’t make guns safer.

          • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:43 am

            Trigger locks and smart guns do

          • MultiKdizzle November 16th, 2014 at 10:05 am

            My god, you just don’t get it, do you?

            Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Thats why keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people is key, and registering firearms is the way to do that. You are incredibly dense.

      • StoneyCurtisll November 15th, 2014 at 7:43 pm

        I blame the idiot who was fondling his gun when it ‘discharged” and sent a bullet into a kid in the a joining room, resulting in his death.

  8. whatthe46 November 15th, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    why was he even handling the gun to beging with. imaginary bad guys?

  9. KB723 November 15th, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    Sad, but glad he (Randall) will no longer be on the streets, my thoughts and best wishes to Nathan’s family and friends….

  10. Maxx44 November 15th, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    The right is palling around with domestic terrorists: the NRA.

    • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:10 pm

      You know there are many Democrat NRA members?

      • rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:43 am

        Yeah …those that left the organization after the rightwingnuts hijacked it.

  11. M D Reese November 15th, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    I see we have a NEW NRA troll here this evening! Or perhaps just the same old troll with a snappy new handle…

  12. StoneyCurtisll November 15th, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    “accidental discharge” of a firearm…
    Not to be confused with nocturnal emissions..(no one gets killed)

    • tiredoftea November 15th, 2014 at 10:49 pm

      But, they do stick to the bed.

  13. StoneyCurtisll November 15th, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    Wanna bet this “convicted felon” bought his gun either at a gun show or through some personal independent sale on line?…
    But dont let that stand in the way of the NRA protecting the right to buy and sell guns to anyone without a background check.

    • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 8:46 pm

      You cannot buy a gun online without a BG check.

      • StoneyCurtisll November 15th, 2014 at 8:56 pm

        wanna bet?

        • Allan Kim Harrison November 15th, 2014 at 9:11 pm

          Sure. You can arrange a sale over the internet and meet with someone face to face without a BG check. To actually buy a gun over the internet legally you have to involved a FFL individual or gun dealer. The gun has to be shipped from and to a FFL or gun dealer, once received by the FFL or gun dealer the buyer has to submit to a BG check and be cleared for possession before the gun is released to them.

          • whatthe46 November 15th, 2014 at 9:15 pm

            but, if you are a felon, then he’s right. he’s not talking about a legal sale. aside from that, one can always get someone without a felony charge on their record to get the gun legally for them. if a felon wants his hands on a weapon, he’ll surely find a way to get it.

          • Guest November 16th, 2014 at 5:05 pm

            Who’s talking about legally here?

  14. searambler November 15th, 2014 at 10:38 pm

    “Under federal law, people with felony convictions forfeit their right to bear arms. Yet every year, thousands of felons across the country have those rights reinstated, often with little or no review. In several states, they include people convicted of violent crimes, including first-degree murder and manslaughter, an examination by The New York Times has found. While previously a small number of felons were able to reclaim their gun rights, the process became commonplace in many states in the late 1980s, after Congress started allowing state laws to dictate these reinstatements — part of an overhaul of federal gun laws orchestrated by the National Rifle Association. The restoration movement has gathered force in recent years, as gun rights advocates have sought to capitalize on the 2008 Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/us/felons-finding-it-easy-to-regain-gun-rights.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

    For those who think being a convicted felon automatically means they are prohibited from owning a gun no matter what…..

  15. Brian November 16th, 2014 at 9:35 am

    He was merely sharing Liberty™ with Freedom Bullets™ and his Heller Decision Gun™. He and the dead boy are both Patriots™.

  16. rg9rts November 16th, 2014 at 9:41 am

    Another candidate for the NRA shooter of the month award

  17. Le Cochon November 16th, 2014 at 8:22 pm

    Another useless death of an 8-year old boy in savage America. This a direct result of a complete lack of culture and sense of humanity among the american populace. specifically when still bickering over some retarded second amendment and absurd arguments pertaining to the imaginary safety and the imbecile claimed component of self defense. American men are weak looking for nothing else but a penile enlargement in their state of wide-spread obesity and absent social skills unable to cope with an appetite to intimidate one another now with an enhanced star of manhood. Useless.