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ENCINITAS, Calif. ? A documentary filmmaker known for helping rescue
children from squalid Romanian orphanages in the early 1990s was
fatally shot following an apparent dispute over the trimming of
shrubbery outside his Southern California home, officials said Friday.

John Charles Upton Jr., 56, was found dead Thursday on a dirt path in
the yard of his Encinitas home. The San Diego County Sheriff's
Department said detectives arrested Michael Vilkin, 61, on suspicion
of murder. He was being held without bail, pending arraignment
Tuesday.

Upton, after learning of the plight of Romanian orphans, publicized
the brutal conditions and was instrumental in bringing an estimated
two dozen orphans to America for medical care and adoption.

Vilkin, in an interview conducted in county jail, told KGTV in San
Diego he fired gunshots in self-defense after Upton menaced him with a
gun during a dispute over foliage.

If the above is true, no tragedy here. Two gun nuts off the streets
before they sell their guns to criminals or lose them to criminals, or
become criminals themselves. Might come out that one or both of these
guys were already breaking guns laws and were "uncaught criminals.'
That's real common with "legal, law-abiding gun-owners."
Still, like smokers, obese people, skinny bacon eaters with clogged
arteries, there is a cost to society. I doubt shooters pay for all the
LE and judicial costs incurred. It's socialism really. Can't escape
it.
But I'll never complain about 2 gun nuts off the streets. And it's not
the guns themselves. If a gun nut didn't have a gun, he'd use a spoon
or a saw blade to kill. Takes killer instinct to be a gun nut and
worship a device made for killing. Just bad blood.
At least you can eat oatmeal with a spoon and cut wood with a saw blade.
The shrubbery won't care about these guys either. It didn't even notice
the gun shots. Shrubbery is deaf.