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Quote:

A gun-store owner and his son were killed in a shootout with two customers after an argument over a $25 firearm repair fee, police told NBC station WDSU.

The patrons were also taken to hospital with serious injuries following Saturday's incident at the store near Picayune, Mississippi, which is 130 miles south of Jackson.

The customers, who are also a father and son, had visited the store to collect a firearm that had been dropped off for repair. They became irate after being told it was not ready and there would be a $25 service charge, the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office told WDSU.

The argument descended into a shootout, resulting in the owner and his son dying from "multiple gunshot wounds" and the customers being transferred to intensive care, Sun Herald newspaper reported.

The case is still being investigated and no charges have been filed, the newspaper reported Sunday. NBC News was not able to reach the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office for an update early Monday.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/miss...s-n503601?

While I see the need for guns, I am still in favor of some regulation. There's gotta be a way of reducing the number of hard headed idiots in the world.

$25 Dollars. They should have just called the hospital and police. "We are going to shoot people over $25, it will probably cost society a lot more than that, could you pay for it?"

Am I am an asshole for not wanting the other guys to live, if they were the ones who initiated it? I mean I imagine the advantage in a shoot out goes to the ones who shoot first. But if that were the case then there should have been no return fire (if they were good shots). So maybe the gun store owner initiated it?

Talk about bad customer service.