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Georgia Woman Says She Was Asleep When Shot by Police Chief Husband

"A Georgia woman who was shot by her police chief husband on New Year's Day in their bedroom told investigators today that she was asleep when the shooting happened and couldn't provide any information about how it occurred, authorities said. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents interviewed Margaret McCollom in her hospital room at the Atlanta Medical Center, where she was taken after she was shot by Peachtree City Police Chief William McCollom in their home -- accidentally, according to the police chief. Though she could not say how the incident happened, Margaret McCollom told investigators that she believes the shooting was an accident, the GBI said in a statement. The police chief has been cooperating with agents investigating the incident, according to the GBI. Peachtree City police spokesman Lt. Mark Brown said during a news conference on New Year's Day that chief of police William McCollom "well-liked, well-loved."

"We are concerned for his wife and are concerned for the chief," Brown said.There were no witnesses inside the home and the shooting took place in the couple's bedroom, according to the GBI. McCollom called 911 at about 4 a.m. on New Year's Day and said he shot his wife in their home by accident, the GBI told ABC affiliate WSB in Atlanta. McCollom has been placed on administrative leave during the investigation."

The issue at hand is that an officer shot his wife in her sleep "accidentally", and neither one claims to have any recognition of how the incident occurred.
In my opinion, this whole thing seems odd and very suspicious. How do you "accidentally" shoot your wife in her sleep? He is a police officer. A police officer does not accidentally shoot his wife in his sleep. If that is the case, he should not be allowed to carry a gun. It makes me question the motive behind it all. Was the wife really asleep, or did she just say that she was because she was afraid of her husband? Did the husband truly accidentally shoot his wife or was it on purpose? What were the events that lead up to the shooting? So many questions boil from the unfortunate "accident", and I have a feeling the truth may be hard to get. Cops now a days have a very bad reputation, and it only seems to be getting worse.

Electoral College Question(s)

The prospect of directly electing the ruler of a nation was simply unheard of at the time. Most plans introduced at the constitutional convention called for Congress to elect the president, but the Framers ultimately decided that arrangement was too prone to corruption, and would weaken the executive if he owed his job to the legislative branch, so they instead designated a temporary "legislature" created for the sole purpose of choosing a president, and then dissolving. Some states held direct elections for their electors, even in the early days of the republic, though most simply appointed them through the state legislature. By 1824, most states had switched to popular elections as the method for choosing electors.
It is a shame that we live in a company that claims to be a
democracy, yet our votes don’t necessarily count. A president can lose or tie with the popular vote, but win the presidency if they have more votes according to the electoral college. This doesn’t make sense to me. I think that they should just count every vote, and whichever candidate has the most votes should be the president.
The first draft of our Constitution had Congress electing the President, but many delegates to the Constitution Convention were concerned that would create a much too cozy relationship between Congress and the President. The Electoral College was a compromise to avoid that problem. Only a few of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were in favor of a popular vote for the President. While most delegates trusted the voters in their own state many had concerns about some of the other states, particularly the mercantile northern states versus the slave holding southern states and visa-verse. I believe in some aspects it did succeed and in others it failed as well.