The prom shooting both people who were shot are alive and out of the hospital today. The bad guy was shot by the police and is dead!"St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement that 21-year-old Demarcus Semer was killed following a traffic stop made shortly before midnight Saturday.Mascara says the motorist tried to flee and ran over the legs of one of two officers who stopped his car. The second officer was partially inside the car and fired his gun, killing him, according to authorities."

Sounds like the police shot a bad guy?


The motel shooting 3 agents were injuries and the bad guy is dead possibly from his room being set on fire. Agents are going to be OK but the bad guy... He is Dead!

Ohio:
Eight family members found dead in a rural southern Ohio community were shot in the head "execution style," most while they slept, authorities said Friday.
 The slayings of eight family members in rural southern Ohio "was a pre-planned execution" and the investigation will be lengthy, the state's attorney general told reporters Sunday.The Friday killings at four different homes near Piketon was "a sophisticated operation," Attorney General Mike DeWine said at a news conference in the small community that has been on edge since the seven adults and one teenage boy were found shot in the head.Authorities said it was clear that the Rhoden family was targeted, and Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader said he's told relatives to be armed.Reader said he did not believe there was a safety issue for other residents. But "If you are fearful, arm yourself," he said.  Authorities have been scrambling to determine who targeted the clan and why. Investigators have interviewed between 50 and 60 people in hopes of finding leads, and a team 38 people is combing wooded areas around the shooting scenes to ensure no evidence was missed, Reader said.Authorities found marijuana-growing operations at three of the four locations of the shootings, but neither DeWine nor Reader elaborated on what, if any, role they had in the deaths. 

Fred in the real world good people will get killed and that is just a fact. It's not fair.
But to use that as a standard to say no one can own a gun is just wrong. There
are evil people who for what ever reason decide to do very bad things. You can not stop
them by passing more gun laws or try to take gun away from lawful citizens.

Last edited by Common Sense (4/25/2016 8:18 am)

Just Fred wrote:

Fred in the real world good people will get killed and that is just a fact.

That's a bit of a weak argument, Common.  If that were the case, we could say people get killed in auto accidents, so why have seat belts, air bags, child safety seats, antilock braking systems, and shatter-proof glass?

BTW, when did I say people should not be able to own a gun?
 

The ability to own a gun is not EVER going away. What, however, needs to come about are some things that have been proposed that will make it safer for both those that do own guns as well as those that do not. Too many common sense things have been rejected that could help in that regards. 

 

I still don't understand why our society and governments (both state and federal) are more than willing to control, restrict, and impede the people's ability to own and operate a means to transport themselves from place to place in their daily lives, while still opposing such controls, restrictions, and impediments on an implement specifically developed and designed for the sole purpose of efficiently killing other living things.


Blows my mind.

As to the topic at hand, I have felt that for a long time now that gun violence has been more of a constant in or society than when I was younger. I went through the turbulent 60s with the race riots, Black Panthers, and remember well the National Guard in York.In ALL OF THAT I do not remember anywhere near the number of gun violence (shootings, killings) that we see reported every day in one sort or another. 

I know they say gun violence is on a downwards trend, but I for one cannot be too convinced of that fact.