Monday, May 1, 2023

A Problem: Men with Guns in the U.S. - Killing people in Driveways, on Lawns, at Front Door, Teen Party, Next Door

The news in the last 2 weeks has shown the absolute insanity of people having guns that should not have had access to  them.   Yes, people can have guns, but more oversight is needed to keep them away from people who should not have them.  
 Today's blog is a review: A teenager mistaking an address and knocking at a door - SHOT; A woman who pulled into the wrong driveway - SHOT DEAD. A 6 Year Old Girl & Father retrieved a ball in a Neighbor's Yard- SHOT. Four Teens at Sweet 16 Party- SHOT DEAD. This weekend, a family of 5 SHOT DEAD by a neighbor in Texas who didn't want to stop shooting his guns at night. 
Click here for a list of just RECENT shootings, and read the summaries of these stories in today's blog. 



The 84-year old man who shot Ralph Yarl when the Black teenager went to his door by mistake pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a case that has shocked the country and renewed national debates about gun policies and race in America.

2 Cheerleaders shot after one says she got into wrong car 

A man shot and wounded two cheerleaders in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one of them said she mistakenly got into his car thinking it was her own — the latest in a string of recent U.S. shootings apparently sparked by someone showing up at the wrong place

Six-year-old shot after basketball rolls into North Carolina man's yard 

 Police in North Carolina are searching for a man accused of shooting a six-year-old girl and her father after their basketball rolled into the suspect's yard.Two other victims, a woman and a man, were also injured. Police said the suspect, 24-year-old Robert Louis Singletary, remains at large. Mr Singletary faces four counts of first-degree attempted murder. Investigators later reported that a six-year-old child and her father were both seriously injured. An adult female was grazed by a bullet and a second adult male was shot, they said.

Teen brothers among five charged in Alabama party killings 

 A fifth man has been arrested after the deadly shooting at a 16th birthday party in Alabama that left four dead and 32 injured last Saturday.Willie George Brown Jr, 19, was arrested on Thursday and charged with four counts of reckless murder. Johnny Letron Brown, 20, was also arrested Thursday, while brothers Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, were arrested Tuesday. Wilson LaMar Hill, 20, was held on Wednesday afternoon.Police have still not disclosed a potential motive for the shooting. At least four people between the ages of 17 and 23 were killed at the birthday party in the small city of Dadeville. There were about 50 people at the celebration, which was held at a local dance studio.

Gunman kills 5 neighbors, including child, in San Jacinto County home, sheriff says 

The suspect, who is still being sought, had been asked to stop shooting his rifle in his front yard because of a sleeping baby, according to authorities. A man killed five people, including an 8-year-old boy, with an AR-15-style weapon Friday night in an angry response to his neighbors’ request that he stop shooting in his yard while their baby was trying to sleep, Texas authorities said Saturday. Instead of heeding the request, the man allegedly took the gun, went to the neighbors’ house and killed half the people inside. He then fled, sparking an overnight manhunt around Cleveland, Texas, that was continuing Saturday evening.

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