Post by warrior1972 on Jan 18, 2014 17:17:31 GMT -8
(CNN) -- A grocery store. A movie theater. A middle school. A high school. All seemingly safe places in our lives that in one week of unrelated gun violence proved anything but.
In Philadelphia Friday, two 15-year-old students were wounded when gunfire erupted in the gym at Delaware Valley Charter School, police said.
In Indiana on Wednesday, two women were shot to death by a man at Martin's Super Market, police said. The rampage ended with police shooting and killing 22-year-old Shawn Walter Bair, who may have been known by the victims.
In New Mexico on Tuesday, a 12-year-old student with a sawed off, 20-gauge pump shotgun opened fire in a crowded gym at Berrendo Middle School. Two students were seriously injured and a juvenile suspect was quickly in custody. It was the second middle-school shooting in three months.
In Florida on Monday, a 71-year-old retired cop shot and killed a movie-goer who was texting his daughter moments before a matinee of "Lone Survivor," police said. There were about 25 people in the theater. The wife of 43-year-old victim Chad Oulson was shot in the hand trying to defend him.
For the millions of Americans whose lives take them to school or the movies or the supermarket, the thought might linger: What if ...
"These incidents still remain relatively rare," said J. Peter Blair, associate professor of criminal justice at Texas State University. "For the most part, we'll never directly experience one of them. It's safer now than it's been in a long time."
www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/us/weeklong-u-s-gun-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
In Philadelphia Friday, two 15-year-old students were wounded when gunfire erupted in the gym at Delaware Valley Charter School, police said.
In Indiana on Wednesday, two women were shot to death by a man at Martin's Super Market, police said. The rampage ended with police shooting and killing 22-year-old Shawn Walter Bair, who may have been known by the victims.
In New Mexico on Tuesday, a 12-year-old student with a sawed off, 20-gauge pump shotgun opened fire in a crowded gym at Berrendo Middle School. Two students were seriously injured and a juvenile suspect was quickly in custody. It was the second middle-school shooting in three months.
In Florida on Monday, a 71-year-old retired cop shot and killed a movie-goer who was texting his daughter moments before a matinee of "Lone Survivor," police said. There were about 25 people in the theater. The wife of 43-year-old victim Chad Oulson was shot in the hand trying to defend him.
For the millions of Americans whose lives take them to school or the movies or the supermarket, the thought might linger: What if ...
"These incidents still remain relatively rare," said J. Peter Blair, associate professor of criminal justice at Texas State University. "For the most part, we'll never directly experience one of them. It's safer now than it's been in a long time."
www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/us/weeklong-u-s-gun-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
