By Peter Charalambous
Gaston County - A North Carolina man (click here) allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard, ABC News reported.
The suspect, Robert Louis Singletary, 24, turned himself in on Thursday to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Florida, the Gaston County Police Department said....
The suspect, Robert Louis Singletary, 24, turned himself in on Thursday to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Florida, the Gaston County Police Department said....
To begin bullet wounds are NEVER a minor injury. It is really lousy a six year old child is a victim to idiotic anger.
The Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground have no limitations and expose innocent, unwitting people to violence they never thought possible. The laws brought to state law since George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin are far too loose in their definition and the gun lobby likes it that way.
There needs to be federal legislation to end the shooting sprees in the country. There needs to be legislation that requires a crime being committed within the boundaries of a property or home before "force" is allowed to be used. In none of the incidents over the past week or so where there warnings of any kind before shots were fired. The idea a person can make a wrong turn into a driveway or knock at the wrong door and be met with their death at the barrel of a gun is simply unconscionable.
The federal legislation must require actual crimes that will harm to justify any use of a gun or any other force to end an American's life. These state laws are extremely dangerous. These laws are allowing and even encouraging violence against "the other" when there is no basis to justify it. A property border is no excuse for killing. Trespassing is decided by a judge with a sentence to match the crime.
The Fourth Amendment to the USA Constitution states, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
When Americans arm themselves and take the law into their own hands they are acting as police, judge and jury and they violate the rights of "the other." These state gun laws violate the Fourth Amendment unjustifiably end the life of those without malice or intent to do harm. A property boundary is not the definition of the right to kill. These laws are outrageous in the danger they bring to every American life.
This was going to happen here. This level of violence has become the trademark of the NRA and other gun rights groups in countries other than the USA. The permission for social violence has arrived. It is time to stop it!
