4 dead and many injured in a shooting in Alabama.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65293737

Also

"The incident in Tallapoosa County, in the east of Alabama, follows a shooting on the same day at a park in Louisville, Kentucky, which killed two people and injured four others."

Children, again.

A 16-year old black kid by the name of Ralph Yarl went to pick up his brothers in Kansas City, Missouri and instead of going to ___ 115th Terrace, he went to ____ 115th Street, a block away (his mother had given him the address).

He goes up to the door to ring the doorbell and is immediately shot point-blank in the head and in the arm by the homeowner, Andrew Lester, who claimed he was scared because a "black guy" was at his door.

The victim is an honors student and all-state band member and is only 5'8" and weighs 140 pounds. Again, just 16 years old. Thankfully, he has survived.

Somewhat similar but not racially motivated... "In upstate New York, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis was shot to death Saturday night after the car she was riding in mistakenly went to the wrong address and was met with gunfire in the driveway. Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said the car was turning around when the homeowner, Kevin Monahan, 65, came out onto his porch and fired two shots. Monahan is charged with second-degree murder.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...awyer-98695906

'Murica.

I will never understand why some people try to claim that society would be safer if more people had guns.

Worse, he fired large 12 gauge slugs from a shotgun, i.e. bear load. Couldn't have been a pretty sight.

"The type of bullet that killed Ms Gillis was a large lead slug fired from a 12-gauge shotgun, according to the Times-Union newspaper."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65307556

The girl's father is a cop.

I went to school near there, so I know the place.

Tom

It's never bloody ending atm.

"2 cheerleaders were shot in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one opened the door to the wrong vehicle. A suspect is under arrest

Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle as her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital – making this at least the third incident this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire.

Authorities arrested Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., 25, the man they say shot the two teens. He was taken into custody early Tuesday, the Elgin Police Department said in a news release later that morning.

Officers responding just after midnight Tuesday to an H-E-B supermarket parking lot found two people in a vehicle who’d been struck by bullets, police said, citing preliminary reports. One with serious injuries was rushed by helicopter to a hospital and in critical condition, while the other was treated at the scene, the release said.

The latter girl had gotten out of a friend’s car and opened the door to a vehicle she thought was hers, only to find a man sitting in the passenger seat, she said during a livestreamed prayer vigil Tuesday night at her cheer team’s gym, CNN affiliate KTRK reported.

Heather Roth said she was trying to apologize to the man when he got out out of the passenger door.

“He just threw his hands up, and then he pulled out a gun and he just started shooting at all of us,” Roth said, fighting tears."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/19/u...ing/index.html

Now a father and a six year old girl have been shot after their basketball went into a neighbour’s yard.

WTF is going on in the US. Insanity!

No surprise here:

Both the number per day caught and the rate of loaded weapons increase year to year.

Nothing new, just more reported in the news.

Tom

Tom, I sincerely hope you are not right, but I fear that you are.

FYI!
Seems to be a good research and explanation of it all.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...lence-00092413


Indicates that America is not the melting pot its always made out to be.

Alas, I fear so as well.

Tom

An interesting article claims the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s.
Deadly gun violence is most acute, in regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades.

New Netherlands being defined in that article as New York City and surrounding areas.

At least no one died this time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65372526

From that link.

The children and teenagers from today will grow up one day and push for some changes. The "more is good" approach is not working.

One of the lads shot was, according to the report, a promising soccer star.

He was shot in the knee.

So his future career got killed?

And another one for the never ending tally.

"5 people fatally shot, including 8-year-old, suspect at large, San Jacinto County Sheriff says"

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/29/u...ing/index.html

Francisco Oropesa, 38, was arrested in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas,

You couldn’t make this up.