<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The Saturday, March 5, edition of the</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">American Press</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">, the headline “Armed but deadly,” subtitled “La. gun deaths exceed traffic deaths in 2014” — my question relates to the definition of “gun deaths.”</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">I’ve seen a lot of statistics before where the gun deaths include suicides. I scanned the article briefly and didn’t see that mentioned. I’d like to know if in fact the gun deaths statistics included suicides.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">According to the Violence Policy Center report referred to in the March 5 story, “gun deaths” include “gun suicide, homicide, and fatal unintentional shootings.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“Firearm-related fatalities exceeded motor vehicle fatalities in 21 states and the District of Columbia in 2014 …,” reads the report.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“The number of states where gun deaths exceed motor vehicle deaths has increased from just 10 in 2009 — the first year of data analyzed by the Violence Policy Center.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The report’s 2014 breakdown for Louisiana:</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Gun deaths — 896.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Motor vehicle deaths — 807.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Gun death rate per 100,000 — 19.27.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Motor vehicle death rate per 100,000 — 17.36.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.vpc.org/studies/gunsvscars16.pdf.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">Civil Code addresses survey markers</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Is there a law against pulling out survey markers?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The Louisiana Professional Engineering and Land Surveying Board’s “Compendium of Louisiana and Federal Laws Relating to Land Surveying” includes the following Civil Code provisions:</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Article 791 — “When the boundary has been marked judicially or extrajudicially, one who removes boundary markers without court authority is liable for damages. He may also be compelled to restore the markers to their previous location.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">And earlier in the code:</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyListing">Article 789 — “The boundary may be fixed judicially or extrajudicially. It is fixed extrajudicially when the parties, by written agreement, determine the line of separation between their lands with or without reference to markers on the ground.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.lapels.com/docs/compendium/ls_comp.pdf.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">CPSB: Substance on gym wall not mold</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">I went and watched my grandkids play at Sam Houston, and I started having sinus problems and I started looking around.</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">And I looked up on the north and the south wall where the air-condition duct blows on the wall and there’s mold all inside that gym. Who does the cleaning up at the gym?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“It has been looked at and confirmed that it is not mold,” Holly Holland, Calcasieu Parish school system spokeswoman, wrote in an email. “A banner was hanging there at one time, and it’s remnants of that.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.cpsb.org.</span>

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