The Lovely Wife actually tried to get into the wrong car in the parking lot of our H‑E‑B the other day. (My car is black; for some reason suddenly all cars are black.) She was embarrassed, but she wasn’t fired on. I guess we got lucky.Everyone with their finger perpetually on the trigger means these terrible stories are going from anecdotal to trend. https://t.co/pL3lxaB2jm
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 19, 2023
I just saw a black figure in the passenger seat, and I just shut the door as fast as I could,” said Heather. She says she had approached the vehicle thinking it was her car. When she noticed the man on the passenger side. She ran back to the car with the other girls.
“I see the guy get out of the passenger door. And I rolled my window down, and I was trying to apologize to him… and my window was halfway down, and he just threw his hands up and he pulled out a gun, and then he just started shooting at all of us,” she said.The shooter was involved in a second shooting, and was arrested. I’m sure if he hadn’t had a gun, and wasn’t allowed to carry it freely, this wouldn’t have happened.
Or maybe the cheerleaders should have been armed, right?
And this also happened yesterday:
ReplyDelete"A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed by a homeowner in upstate New York on Saturday after the car she was in accidentally went to the wrong address, local authorities said on Monday.
Kaylin Gillis and three of her friends were trying to find another friend's house in rural Hebron, N.Y., when they mistakenly pulled up to the house owned by Kevin Monahan, according to Sheriff Jeffrey J. Murphy.
They quickly realized their mistake and were turning the car around when Monahan stepped onto his porch and fired two shots, one of which struck Gillis."
The shooter has been charged with second degree murder.
But I was told just a few days ago by an acquaintance that it's all about mental health, nothing about guns. Absolutely, completely, not about guns.
A friend posted yesterday a story about two fathers in Florida last fall driving with their families that got into a road rage incident. It escalated and they both ended up shooting at each other and hitting each other's daughters in their respective trucks. The first father threw a water bottle at one point at the other truck, the second father responded with gunfire, hitting the daughter of the first father. The first father then responded with gunfire hitting the second father's daughter. Both were arrested, but only the first father is facing charges (the announcement which put the story in the news). Throwing a water bottle at a close window was considered sufficient to invoke the Florida stand your ground law, and so responding with deadly force was justified. We live in a time of madness.
My governor Sununu was just at the NRA convention crowing about how he signed a law for "constitutional carry", allowing permitless concealed carrying of a firearm in our state. Last year we had two drivers get in a similar road rage incident and one shot and killed the other. Such freedoms.
Guns matter, property matters, people don't matter.