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nkat2112 Mar 10, 2024

Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder

https://sh.itjust.works/post/16029710

Missouri man fatally shoots his mother at home after mistaking her for intruder - sh.itjust.works

>A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door. > >Prosecutors have charged Jaylen Johnson with manslaughter and armed criminal action in connection with the shooting death on Thursday of his mother, Monica McNichols-Johnson. > >McNichols-Johnson’s shooting death came less than a year after another shooting in Missouri saw Ralph Yarl, then 16, get shot on 13 April by 84-year-old Andrew Lester after ringing the wrong doorbell while picking up his siblings.

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sin_free_for_00_days Mar 11, 2024

Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found. - Guardian Article April 7, '22

The relationship of Americans and our guns is such a weird, religious-level issue. Just bizarre people. And some of them are friends of mine. The people, not the guns.

People in homes with handguns more likely to be shot dead, major study finds

Researchers find ‘zero evidence of any kind of protective effects’, with women at particular risk

The Guardian

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meco03211 Mar 11, 2024

I’ve heard this claim before and haven’t really been able to dig into it. One question that came up through that article related to this paragraph:

The study focused only on homicide risk and did not examine how living with a handgun owner might increase or decrease the risk of being victimized in other ways, including by nonfatal assault, home invasion, or property theft.

This sounds like something like a home invasion that would have ended in a homicide but didn’t (due to a gun or other reasons) wouldn’t be counted. The cases that are due to a gun would seem especially important.

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sin_free_for_00_days

My friends around the world who aren’t Americans,

The above is what it’s like trying to talk about gun control with people here. Most of my experience isn’t crazy gun nuts strutting around strapped because of some fucked up interpretation of the thought behind the 2A. It’s people giving reasonable, at least superficially, arguments about why their guns aren’t part of the problem. I say it’s religious because it’s all faith in the face of facts. Or fear in front of facts really.

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quindraco Mar 11, 2024

Meco did literally the opposite of what you’re accusing them of: rather than take a claim on faith, they questioned. That’s the polar opposite of religion.