The parents of the runaway hunted Mr. Sneed down and shot him to his death. The parents had gone to the local police station and also tried to get help from local newspapers but no one would help. The parents would not wait on a trail but took the situation in their own hands. The parents had hired local gang members to kill Mr. Sneed but the gang members were unsuccessful. Prosecutors say Gilton shot Sneed with a .40-caliber handgun on Meade and LeConte avenues, causing the gang member to crash his car
He carjacked a truck at a gas station, police said, then executed a businessman and stole his BMW. A few minutes later, he killed a plumber and took a work truck. He shot indiscriminately at morning commuters on the 55 Freeway, hitting at least three cars. In the end, authorities say the gunman killed three people and wounded three others before fatally turning his gun on himself. Authorities were stunned by what they described as the "senseless violence," which spanned about 25 miles of normally placid suburbia.
However, tragedies such as Sandy Hook give us even more of a reason why firearms shouldn’t be banned. A lethal criminal gunman sees a school as a weaponless haven full of vulnerable victims, making them the easiest places to perform their psychotic plans. I believe that some of these massacres could be prevented if places, such as schools, have a security guard who is armed and trained for these situations. In 2007, a gunman entered a Colorado church and shot and killed two girls. A former police officer who was volunteering at the church “drew her firearm, shot and wounded the gunman before he could kill anyone else,” as stated in Bennett’s article.
With the aid of a flashlight cops saw no sign of a weapon, and, though not certain, was “reasonably sure” and “figured” that Garner was unarmed. While Garner was crouched at the base of the fence, police called out “police, halt” and took a few steps toward him. Garner then began to climb over the fence. Convinced that if Garner made it over the fence he would elude capture, cop shot him. The bullet hit Garner in the back of the head, and he died.
Everyday people are mugged in dark allies. If the person being mugged happened to have a gun on them, and know how to use it, it would be unlikely that the criminals would secede. If someone tried to rob a bank and hold people who had guns on them hostage it would be likely that the criminal would be shot before anyone could be harmed. It is a proven fact that in states that have very little gun control there is less crime then in states that have a lot of gun control. If you were going to commit a crime wouldn’t you think twice before doing it if you knew someone could shoot you while you were doing it?
FACTS: 1. Petitioner was convicted of assault with intent to murder Mr. Reynolds. At the trial, Mr. Reynolds testified that three men approached him and his wife. 2. One of the men shot Reynolds and who also testified that Coleman put his hands on Mrs. Reynolds.
The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy". Background On February 6, 2002, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms at the property owned by Pickton and his two siblings. He was taken into custody and police then obtained a second court order to search the farm as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation, when personal items (including a prescription asthma inhaler) belonging to one of the missing women were found. The farm was sealed off by members of the joint RCMP–Vancouver Police Department task force. The following day Pickton was charged with storing a firearm contrary to regulations, possession of a firearm while not being holder of a licence and possession of a loaded restricted firearm without a licence.
Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed police officers, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats and hats, according to witnesses who saw the “police” leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. So the witnesses didn’t do anything because they thought the police had the situation under control. The men were lined up against the wall and brutally killed. There were 150 bullets were shot and although all 7 weren’t killed on the spot, the one survivor eventually died in the hospital before being questioned (Capone, 2011). The only reason that anyone had come to the scene was because someone heard a dog going crazy in the car and then the bodies were found and the cops were called.
But the ban is not the answer. It’s not the assault weapons fault. The Bushmaster .223-caliber model XM15 rifle did not walk onto the property of Sandy Hook and kill those innocent children and people, the person did. There are other logical ways to prevent and stop violence. Gun control may be an issue on streets with minors, or people with criminal backgrounds, but it starts with people.
Texting while driving is irresponsible and extremely dangerous, not only to the driver texting, but to everyone close by. It only takes a second for a disaster to occur on the highways, and texting takes the driver's attention off the road for more than a second. Texting or calling while driving has the potential to cause a serious car accident that can have fatal results. Speaking on a cell phone is already illegal in many states. Texting while driving is even more dangerous.