Guns And The Laws That Govern Them

Too Young to Die: DeAndre Ricketts
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/deandre-ricketts

Friends, relatives, teachers, and principals called him “Papa,” a nickname DeAndre Ricketts’ mother began using when he was a baby.

DeAndre, 16, was an outgoing teenager known for encouraging others with compliments, hugs, and kisses. “You could be having a bad day and he would come around and make it a good day,” his mother, Sharon Murchison, told msnbc. He often made music by drumming his hands on nearby objects or singing.

DeAndre, a junior at Hoke County High School in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., planned to join the Air Force after graduation. If that didn’t work out, he wanted to work as a tattoo artist.

DeAndre was shot and killed at a friend’s birthday party in Hoke County, N.C., on Oct. 13. The investigation is ongoing.

A man armed with a gun entered a cell phone store on Chicago’s South Side
and attempted to rob the establishment. The clerk on duty responded
to the threat by retrieving a gun and shooting the criminal, killing him.

Police have identified the deceased robber as a convict who was
paroled earlier in the year. The criminal had been serving time for
armed robbery with a firearm. (The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill. 12/11/13)

RexRed wrote:

Too Young to Die: DeAndre Ricketts
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/deandre-ricketts

Friends, relatives, teachers, and principals called him “Papa,” a nickname DeAndre Ricketts’ mother began using when he was a baby.

DeAndre, 16, was an outgoing teenager known for encouraging others with compliments, hugs, and kisses. “You could be having a bad day and he would come around and make it a good day,” his mother, Sharon Murchison, told msnbc. He often made music by drumming his hands on nearby objects or singing.

DeAndre, a junior at Hoke County High School in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., planned to join the Air Force after graduation. If that didn’t work out, he wanted to work as a tattoo artist.

DeAndre was shot and killed at a friend’s birthday party in Hoke County, N.C., on Oct. 13. The investigation is ongoing.

Was he sufficiently WELL ARMED in his own defense
and was he sufficiently well trained in defensive battle tactics ??

or
was he just taking his chances ??

Is it PRUDENT to do that??

Shud gun control laws REQUIRE every citizen,
in the name of safety, to be well armed in his own defense ???

According to the report, the "firearm-related murder and non-
negligent homicide" rate was 6.6 per 100,000 Americans in 1993.
Following the exponential growth in the number of guns, that rate
fell to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2000.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

A man armed with a gun entered a cell phone store on Chicago’s South Side
and attempted to rob the establishment. The clerk on duty responded
to the threat by retrieving a gun and shooting the criminal, killing him.

Police have identified the deceased robber as a convict who was
paroled earlier in the year. The criminal had been serving time for
armed robbery with a firearm. (The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill. 12/11/13)

So...that is 33,173 to 1. You still have 33,172 more to go, David.

RexRed wrote:

Too Young to Die: DeAndre Ricketts
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/deandre-ricketts

Friends, relatives, teachers, and principals called him “Papa,” a nickname DeAndre Ricketts’ mother began using when he was a baby.

DeAndre, 16, was an outgoing teenager known for encouraging others with compliments, hugs, and kisses. “You could be having a bad day and he would come around and make it a good day,” his mother, Sharon Murchison, told msnbc. He often made music by drumming his hands on nearby objects or singing.

DeAndre, a junior at Hoke County High School in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., planned to join the Air Force after graduation. If that didn’t work out, he wanted to work as a tattoo artist.

DeAndre was shot and killed at a friend’s birthday party in Hoke County, N.C., on Oct. 13. The investigation is ongoing.

Was he sufficiently WELL ARMED in his own defense
and was he sufficiently well trained in defensive battle tactics ??

or
was he just taking his chances ??

Is it PRUDENT to do that??

Shud gun control laws REQUIRE every citizen,
in the name of safety, to be well armed in his own defense ???

Yea, you bring a gun to someone's birthday party...
Just in case you have to shoot them... Insane

Frank Apisa wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

A man armed with a gun entered a cell phone store on Chicago’s South Side
and attempted to rob the establishment. The clerk on duty responded
to the threat by retrieving a gun and shooting the criminal, killing him.

Police have identified the deceased robber as a convict who was
paroled earlier in the year. The criminal had been serving time for
armed robbery with a firearm. (The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill. 12/11/13)

So...that is 33,173 to 1. You still have 33,172 more to go, David.

NO. That number includes SUICIDE. Everyone is perfectly within his rights
to end his human life, if so he opts. Yes??????

Presumably, that number 's "homicide" component
includes DEFENSIVE HOMICIDE: that means
that the victim successfully killed the predator
and that is super-wonderful!!!!!,
the occasion for great JOY!

"As a nation, we can’t stop every act of violence.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Frank Apisa wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

A man armed with a gun entered a cell phone store on Chicago’s South Side
and attempted to rob the establishment. The clerk on duty responded
to the threat by retrieving a gun and shooting the criminal, killing him.

Police have identified the deceased robber as a convict who was
paroled earlier in the year. The criminal had been serving time for
armed robbery with a firearm. (The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill. 12/11/13)

So...that is 33,173 to 1. You still have 33,172 more to go, David.

NO. That number includes SUICIDE. Everyone is perfectly within his rights
to end his human life, if so he opts. Yes??????

Presumably, that number 's "homicide" component
includes DEFENSIVE HOMICIDE: that means
that the victim successfully killed the predator
and that is super-wonderful!!!!!,
the occasion for great JOY!

Are you actually suggesting that your take on this evens things up?????

Yea, arm little 5 year old girls and boys with guns
that will stop the senseless violence. Insane...