A 3-year-old boy was killed after a barrage of gunfire was aimed at a home in Charlotte, North Carol

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  1. Durandal

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    A 3-year-old boy was killed after a barrage of gunfire was aimed at a home in Charlotte, North Carolina

    (CNN)A 3-year-old boy died and his sister was wounded inside a relative's home in Charlotte, North Carolina, after several people fired roughly 150 rounds of gunfire at the house, police said.

    The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating the fatal shooting of Asiah Figueroa, who was sleeping at his great grandmother's house when he was fatally struck Tuesday before midnight. His 4-year-old sister was grazed during the shooting and is expected to survive, CMPD said.

    The police department released what appears to be surveillance video of the shooting, hoping the public can help identify the cars or the suspects. In the video, two vehicles drive on a street and stop in front of a house when multiple people exit the cars and start firing gunshots at the home. Police said 11 people were in the house when the shooting happened.

    ... https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/us/north-carolina-shooting-child-killed/index.html

    Another day in the war zone that is the Land of Gun Freedumb. This time a 3-year-old bought it, leaving his sister injured and obviously traumatized, his surviving family mourning and likewise traumatized, and all because some insane teenagers have access to a ****ing arsenal and evidently don't mind using it on a home over some stupid issue with a fellow student at school.

    The heartlessness of gun nuts is unconscionable to me. How you can see a story like this and think that this is an acceptable risk and an acceptable norm for any so-called civilization I will never understand.
     
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    Hmm, victim must have been white because crap like this happens 5-6 dozen times a day in the black/brown ghettos of America but it just doesn't make CNN's feed.
     
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    I saw the title and assumed cops did this, thank goodness it was not cops this time, so I think we can all agree the perpetrators should be locked up and punished for their crimes
     
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    Yea that could be it. The hood people frown on cameras because 'snitches get stitches' and whatnot.
     
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    Criminals doing criminal crap are the responsibility of responsible gun owners because they used guns?
    Like that makes sense.
     
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    When school kids come to Australia for student exchanges they are amazed that we don't have metal detectors at the school gates. Actually, that's pretty much the rest of the world...
     
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    "Not my problem", eh?
     
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    Two elementary schools, one middle school, two high schools, two universities - I never once walked through a metal detector to get into a classroom. Can you guess what the schools which do have metal detectors also have a lot of but the schools I went to + schools in Australia don't?
     
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    I can guess what you are implying. Have you got the statistics to back that up?
     
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    another day of Biden voters murdering their own race
    between abortions and thugs shooting up their neighborhoods the black race will soon become extinct in America

    but maybe that is what democrats want the democrat KKK failed to get rid of blacks so now democrat have set it up so they are killing their unborn and each other at a unstainable rate
     
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    Pretty much
     
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    When a person has a hyperbolic agenda to promote the facts don't mean anything.

    Never mind the fact that probably oh 50 million gun owners killed no one in the United States yesterday or the day before or the day before that....
     
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    Well that's good because it was super obvious.
     
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    While I am for sensible gun laws (primary for storage or reporting), no gun law could be devised that would prevent people like this from getting them unless we banned all guns and militarized the border to keep new ones from coming across.

    The only solution is to find the people that act like this and remove them from society, quickly.
     
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    You can't possibly be serious. Durandal, a gunman killed a room full of Kindergartners and these people still don't care. They have to have their mini arsenal for when the zombies arrive. Who cares how many innocent lives are taken?
     
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    You're assuming the guns used were never part of a collection of a so called "responsible" gun owner who might have sold his gun to your random highest bidder?
    How naive.
     
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    It’s weird how you people blame people who don’t commit crimes, instead of the people who actually do commit them. Then again, authoritarians love them some collective stupidity, I mean punishment.
     
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    Its not acceptable. But gun control laws do not work. That has already been proven with the Assault Weapons Ban and many other laws aimed at guns. The fact that this happens has nothing to do with guns. Guns cannot act on their own. And people have been killing people for thousands of years. LONG before the first gun was ever invented. LONG before black powder was invented. Whole villages were slaughtered by bandits without the use of a single gun. That you focus on guns is only because you cannot think of anything else to do and only listen to what you're told rather than think for yourself. You cannot think of how to improve peoples education. You cannot think of how to improve peoples mental health. You cannot think of how to improve peoples economic situation. All of which HAVE been proven to reduce violent crimes. And until you work on those things these things will continue to happen. All because you're focusing on an inanimate object rather than root causes.

    Now, go ahead and point to some other country like Australia or Europe or Japan. It won't do you any good. Different cultures. Different programs aimed at what I suggested above. And different ways of listing violent crimes. And many other differences. This is America. Far bigger than any of those countries. With far more diversity than any of those countries. And far different cultures, along with diversity of cultures, than any other country.

    And frankly, with the lefts pull towards socialism there's no way in hell that Americans are going to give up their guns. We don't want to end up like Venezuela. Or Cuba. Or other similar countries. And the fact that you call it "Freedumb" shows that you are all for authoritarianism and against Freedom.
     
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    They would rather direct their ire at people that don’t murder 3 year old kids for some odd reason.
     
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    You heartless people, cars kill roughly as many as guns (if not MORE) annually, yet you selfishly refuse to give up your cars of mass destruction. Their blood is on your hands!!!! *extinguishes flaming hair
     
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    Ever notice how everything that liberals propose comes at the cost of law abiding Citizens?

    Whenever someone with mental problems does something sociopathic, law abiding Citizens have to pay for it, or give up their Rights because of it...
     
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    Somehow I doubt what you say here. I have gone to school in 6 different States, multiple schools in each of those States, because my parents moved around a lot. Including a high school with 3000 children in it. Not once did I see a metal detector. The only time I even hear about metal detectors in schools are those in large cities like Chicago with high crime rates and gangs. Unless all of your foreign exchange students come from such places pretty much exclusively then I have every reason to doubt what you say here. Because schools with metal detectors are actually rare in the US and not in the least common. And you don't have to believe me on that. Here's a link that shows that only 5% of schools in the US use metal detectors and of those 13.2 percent of high schools have metal detectors, 7 percent of middle schools and 1.5 elementary schools have them: LINK: Fast Facts: School safety and security measures (334) (ed.gov)

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    So yeah, I doubt what you say.
     
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    I guess that's the price you pay for cheap labour. Your deficit with China too.

    They're Americans now. Suck it up!
     
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