Tommie Hill of East St. Louis, Ill. shot and killed girlfriend Ashley Oliver of Chaokia, Ill. on Interstate 64, 50 feet away from his 7-year-old daughter, reported the station. Hill's daughter was unharmed and is now in the custody of her mother.
At approximately 2 p.m. Sunday, June 20, police began receiving calls from witnesses reporting the fatal shooting. According to eyewitnesses an injured Oliver leapt from the car, which police believe may have still been in motion, and starting running to northbound cars on the freeway.
Oliver pounded on windows--begging for help. Hill closed in on Oliver and pulled the semiautomatic gun from his pants, shooting Oliver in the head before pointing the gun to his own head and pulling the trigger.
What do you think, if guns were harder to come by, he would have bashed her brains out with a tire iron and then brained himself with it? Or, do you think gun availability plays a lethal part is sick stories like this?
That's what I think. Therefore, increased gun availability cannot fail to have a direct impact on the frequency of incidents like this. And those pushing for increased availability should accept that as part of the deal. If you want more guns, you are partly responsible for this mess.
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In the U.S., murder-suicide represents 1.5 percent of suicide and 5 percent of homicides annually. In Denmark, on the other hand, 42 percent of homicides are of this variety.
ReplyDeleteGuess which country has higher gun avaliability?
"What do you think, if guns were harder to come by, he would have bashed her brains out with a tire iron and then brained himself with it? "
ReplyDeleteThat's like saying if alcohol were harder to come by, Ted Kennedy wouldn't have been a raging alcoholic who killed a woman.
Your mistake is assuming that if guns were harder to come by, he'd somehow not be able to get a gun. For all we know, he could have been the most qualified gun owner to ever live.
Therefore, I think that if guns were harder to come by, there is still a good chance that he would have shot her and then shot himself.
"What do you think, if guns were harder to come by, he would have bashed her brains out with a tire iron and then brained himself with it? Or, do you think gun availability plays a lethal part is sick stories like this?"
ReplyDelete80 million gunowners didn't kill their girlfriends or themselves yesterday.
Prior to most gun control in this country when guns were available to anyone including children and anyone could buy one at the local hardware store, you still didn't have this kind of problem on any regular basis as you do now. Guns have always been available it is morality and society that is changing.
Quit blaming an inanimate object for the sickness of the world.
Anonymous, You lost me on that one. Would you spell it out a bit?
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