Nine shot in a Memphis home; six are dead. Police said that neighbors reported hearing shots but that was not uncommon in the area.
In Emory, Texas, also on Sunday, a pair of teenagers angered that the girl's parents wanted her to stop seeing each other, apparently shot the girl's parents and brothers.
Yesterday, in Ft. Collins, Colorado, a woman was convicted of ordering her ex-lover's wife to her knees and then shooting her in the head.
The carnage goes on and on and on and on. If the killers had the same intent but didn't have guns, would these murders have occurred? One can't be sure, of course, but it's a lot tougher and a lot chancier to kill people with bare hands or even knives. Does anybody honestly believe that even a fraction of the killing would be occurring if guns weren't so horribly prevalent in our country?
Note: the second story was reported in the News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, and the third in the Las Cruces Sun News of New Mexico, but the original links are now invalid
Note: this was originally posted on ketches, yaks & hawks 7 March 2008
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