This is only 10 miles up the road from me, I went to college at VCU and have been in that building multiple times. As far as I know, a graduate and his father were both killed. Not sure about the other victims.
Shooting during Huguenot high school graduation at Altria theather on campus of VCU in Richmond, Va.
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Yep, I'm about 15 miles away as well. The boy and his step dad were killed and multiple others were injured, including the boy's sister who was struck by a car as she was running away. I think she will be ok though.
Evidently the victim and the shooter had an ongoing beef over something. The suspect had been at graduation, then went to his car and grabbed a gun and came back shooting.
Can you imagine, you're there to celebrate your child's graduation and then everything in your world changes in a split second. Scary stuff...
Evidently the victim and the shooter had an ongoing beef over something. The suspect had been at graduation, then went to his car and grabbed a gun and came back shooting.
Can you imagine, you're there to celebrate your child's graduation and then everything in your world changes in a split second. Scary stuff...
The biggest and scariest change I've seen in the last 5-10 years is that seemingly in the old days even gangs and shooters had respect for the innocent and would generally just shoot it out amongst themselves and not endanger the innocent but starting in the past 5 yrs or so you see case after case where people go to events and open fire with sometimes hundreds of innocent people in the line of fire.The Columbiana Mall shooting,Charleston N King St shooting ,the recent Columbia park shooting ,the graduation party in Summerton..All examples of this...It's now where every large gathering seems to involve a shooting.Where does it end?
There are no easy answers. And no one wants the hard ones.
The hard ones punish the innocent as though they were guilty. The key to gun control is making it an automatic life sentence to use one in the commision of a crime - any crime - and "use" includes brandishing a firearm, whether it is discharged or not. Problem solved to the greatest and fairest extent possible.
No.
Last outing netted two dinks and lost a big'un because I was using the wrong combo. Only time I've been in 3 weeks.
That is the fairest. Too many crimes are committed by someone out on bail for a major offense. But throwing them all in jail leaves more hard questions, like "How do we pay for their incarceration?"
I was speaking of the root causes (fatherlessness and the breakdown of the traditional family, poverty, etc.). These conditions breed people with no love in their hearts. They don't know what love is. I'm speaking of the love you have for fellow man, being able to feel empathy. Even if we enacted a strict firearms ban, these people would not just start singing Kumbaya. And if authorities can't get the illegal guns off the streets now, I have great doubt of their abilities.
Look what we're paying as a society for not doing it now.
It was prior to the explosion that has since taken place. Richmond has become a "foodie town" with great variety. I do, however, strenuously object to the city's additional "meal tax."
Then execute those who take lives. Incarcerate the others in tents and restrain them with log chains if space is exhausted. It's time to stop these pantywaist excuses not to do what needs to be done. The prisons are full because we haven't sufficiently deterred people.