Alicia wrote:
How does the NRA justify having guns made available to everyone - without investigation? Some people have short tempers and . . . give them a gun . . . and they'll start using them. Sounds like the old Wild West doesn't it?
This story appeared on "7 NEWS". Following is a short description by one reader.
"Huh. A PATH train heading from Manhattan to N.J. At 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. One suspect a resident of ... "East Orange, N.J." Scuffle based on one person bumping into another (woman), the woman getting "loud", one person pulling out a gun and shooting the woman, then, the woman's brother pulling out his gun. All 3 shot in the shooting back-and-forth: ankle, hand, leg. So: all packing and all getting loud."
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Just a point about the race of the shooter, and the rest of the story. A shooting occured Sunday morning after a confrontation at the Pavonia PATH station in Jersey City.
The initial incident happened on a moving train and then spilled out onto the platform of the station.
The person behind the terror, police say, forced everyone to run for their lives. Tari Turpin...
A BLACK MAN... allegedly pulled out a 9 mm glock, and started shooting on board the PATH train.
Diamond Drummer was the first victim;
...WHITE WOMAN... Eyewitness News reporter Kemberly Richardson spoke with the 24-year-old just hours after she'd been shot.
"I'm just drowsy and in pain," said Diamond.
Diamond was riding the train with her brother Antoine, Aubree Marshall and several other friends.
ALL BLACK The train was pulling into the Newport station just after 5am. Turpin was sitting right next to Diamond.
"She said 'excuse me sir, you're bumping me', and he got upset," said the victim's mother, Dawn Watson-Drummer.
The group began arguing, and that is when Antoine said Turpin stood up and pulled out a gun.
"He pulled his gun out, cocked it, my son began negotiating with him," said Dawn.
Turpin was cooperative until Aubree said one last thing.
"He said, to him 'who pulls a gun on a girl, what kind of man pulls a gun on a girl'," adds Dawn.
Turpin then allegedly began firing his gun.
Aubree was hit with a bullet in his hand, while Diamond was shot in the ankle.
"As he was leaving, running away from the train, he shot back, and I was hit and so was my friend Aubree," says Diamond, "I wasn't necessarily afraid because I had no control either way."
Somehow, Turpin ended up shooting himself in the leg.
One shooter, breaking the law by carrying a concealed weapon.
Shooter was black. (He had the illegal gun)
Victims were white. (They were not carrying weapons)
Using Alicia's logic, it would appear we should outlaw b****s!