The killing of a woman who took a wrong turn, the wounding of a teen who rang a doorbell – more unfathomable attacks that shine light on America’s gun culture 🔎 Analysis by Daniel Bates
A sentence like that is normally accompanied by a horrific story of a person – usually black – being shot dead by the police. But this week the stories hit differently due to disproportionate responses to what seemed like honest mistakes.while driving in the dark in a rural area. As they turned around on the property of Kevin Monahan he allegedly opened fire, fatally injuring Ms Gillis.
In Elgin, Texas, two cheerleaders were shot after one of them accidentally got into a stranger’s car while thinking it was her own. In Kansas, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who is black, was shot in the head by 84-year-old Andrew Lester, a white man, after ringing the wrong doorbell which he thought was his home.
As John Roman, a senior fellow in the Economics, Justice and Society Group at NORC, a research organisation based at the University of Chicago put it: “It’s a totally different type of gun ownership now.
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