A Louisiana man has been charged with aggravated assault and battery after shooting at children who had been playing hide and seek outside his home, striking a 14-year-old girl, officials said.
The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head early Sunday, and was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social media Monday.
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David Doyle, 58, told detectives that he got his gun when he saw shadows outside his home and shot at people he saw running away, unknowingly hitting the girl, officials said.
Let's be clear about this, shall we? Shooting people in the back who are running away (and who are not covering their escape with gunfire) is never, ever, ever OK. It's almost never OK for cops to do it. It's not OK for non-LEO citizens to do it.
This modern trend of shooting people who make the perpretrator vaguely uncomfortable has to be stopped. Really, about the only way to do that is to send them away for very long confinements. With lots of publicity.
If this asswipe is found guilty, the judge should stack the sentences.
Is it just me, or has common sense, with guns, totally evaporated into the ether in the last 6 months or a year?
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You and Charlie Pierce have pointed to a central source of the problem: fuckers who are benefiting, either politically or economically, from stoking paranoia.
ReplyDeletew3ski, Doug has the right of it. There is a side of the political spectrum that is stoking fear, mostly through manipulation of statistics and outright lies. Go up the wrong driveway and get shot. Ring the wrong doorbell and get shot. Open the wrong car door and get shot. It's flat-out insanity.
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