1 Teen shot dead, another wounded in W. Minn. home; schools locked downSo........who is going to be blamed / held responsible for this particular gun violence?
Minneapolis Star Tribune, by Paul Walsh
A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot and a 17-year-old boy was wounded at his home in western Minnesota, authorities said Tuesday.
The shooting near Amor was reported about 9 p.m. Monday to the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office, which added that "this incident is isolated to this residence, and there is no threat to the community at large." No arrests have been made.
The girl, a sophomore at Perham High School whose name has not be released, was dead at the scene, the Sheriff's Office said. The boy, Dylan Cox, was taken to Sanford Hospital in Fargo. Cox was a student at the high school "for a while," said Perham-Dent School District Superintendent Tamara Uselman.
Are we going to acknowledge the loss of the priceless treasure embodied by our children?
How about the consideration of this as bloody?
The countdown begins: 10.........9.........8...... for the pro-gun assertion that we would all be better off if we lived in a vigilante-style society with more guns, not less....7.........6.........5.........4........3.......2......1
Who will be first? Step up, don't be shy....
I was just listening to NPR. It was a feature story about some poor soldier with brain damage and PTSD, a double-whammy all too common amongst those that bear the true cost of war.
ReplyDeleteHis fucking Dad comes on sobbing in his hanky about a breakdown his son suffered after leaving a treatment facility. He starts by describing how the son tore apart his own bedroom, his trophy case containing his purple heart among other things. Then the guy's like, "Next I went into my bedroom where I keep my guns..."
What the fuck is wrong with people? Unless you are into killing people, you really don't need guns.
"So........who is going to be blamed / held responsible for this particular gun violence?"
ReplyDeleteI know this is kind of a stretch, but... maybe the murderer is responsible. You know, the guy who probably would've substituted a kitchen knife if he couldn't get a gun (in which case you wouldn't care about the incident).
MAgunowner, You say, "the guy who probably would've substituted a kitchen knife if he couldn't get a gun," as if that means something. First of all, not all would resort to other tools to do their killing, some would just not kill. And secondly, and more importantly, those who do resort to knives or baseball bats or whatever, whould have a lower kill rate and would inflict much less damage.
ReplyDeleteFJ, I might borrow this one as a new slogan. "What the fuck is wrong with people? Unless you are into killing people, you really don't need guns."
MAgunowner, YES absolutely this murderer is the person responsible for this particular gun violence.
ReplyDeleteThat begs the core question though.
Other countries have far lower rates of gun violence than we do, regardless of who is responsible for it.
That it happens, where it does not happen equally as often in other countries, is the issue.
Yes, if he didn't have access to not one, but two guns, he might have resorted to some other means. He might not, or he might have only succeeded in his own suicide, or in injuring others, or not succeeded in either.
But he wouldn't have killed with a gun. A gun makes it easier; a knife is not so easy.