Gun Owner Kills Daughter’s Boyfriend
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Another gun owner and another dead teenager. That’s the way it is in Houston, Texas as a homeowner with a gun decides to kill a young man without getting all the facts.
A 17-year-old Houston boy is dead after a middle-of-the-night confrontation with the father of a girl he knew—in her bedroom, reports the Houston Chronicle.The father told police that one of his other children alerted him that someone was in his daughter’s bedroom, and he went to investigate with a gun about 2:20am, reports My Fox Houston.
When he entered the room, his 16-year-old daughter denied knowing who the boy was, and the father says he fired when the teen appeared to be reaching for something, say investigators. Only afterward did the daughter acknowledge that she had let the boy inside the home and into her room, reports KHOU.
The 55-year-old father reportedly called 911 before shooting, but the call was followed by an argument with the male teen. KHOU identifies the teen victim as Johran McCormick. “I really wish that he would have had a second thought,” says mother Zakia McCormick of the shooter. “He didn’t deserve to die like that.”
The still-unidentified father—who was treated at a hospital for a panic attack after the shooting—was not arrested, the Chronicle reports, but the sheriff’s office says the case will be presented to a grand jury, which will decide whether to charge him with anything.
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Before we can legally operate an automobile we have to 1)obtain a license to do so 2)register the vehicle & 3)have the vehicle inspected to prove that it is fit to be operated. It has been this way my entire life & yet I have never heard anyone voice a concern that our cars are going to be confiscated. Why is it that every time someone suggests common sense gun laws to help decrease the number of these senseless deaths the NRA screams like an hysterical toddler that the government is coming to confiscate everyone’s guns?
Unlike cars, which have a benign purpose (transportation), guns have one purpose, which is to kill. And someone has yet to explain to me or anyone else why the average citizen requires an assault rifle to protect their home. I’ve never heard of a home invasion being carried out by a battalion.
I agree with you about licenses to own guns, as I have posted in MMA and at http://slrman.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/guns-or-no-guns/
I also agree that the average homeowner really needs nothing more than a .410 gauge shotgun for home defense.
You should be aware that not every semi-auto weapon is an “assault rifle”. There’s a strong distinction there that most media people never bother to learn. After all, why allow a little thing like facts get in the way of a good story?
James I couldn’t agree more and I’ve been saying the exact same thing for over 40 years.
The NRA is in the pocket of the gun manufacturers I suspect Gretchen.
“an overwhelming desire to shoot something – anything or anyone.”
Something of which it’s a bit of a stretch to assume. Unfortunately nearly all discussions of shootings, justified and otherwise include assumptions of convenience and other items of color commentary.
Psychologists talk of ratio bias and denominator neglect in the way the public makes decisions and judgements elevating anecdotes without statistical support. One in a million will scare us while one in 4 may not.
I agree that this sort of thing happens, but stories like this are the ones most used to justify our biases while thwarted robberies and home invasions rarely appear outside of local papers. There have been several such in my area in the last few years. You’ll never hear of them but you’ll somehow be sure that the man was a murderous psychopath? The cop who put six rounds into an old man with a cane because he thought it was a shotgun? Did he have that “overwhelming desire” or was it a justifiable mistake? It all depends on what’s being sold.
I’d rather look at the story without the frame.
“I’d rather look at the story without the frame.”
Or through your own bias? If it’s fair to ask that question of others, then it’s also fair to ask it of yourself.
I find myself struggling with my own bias’ James, and like Glenn I too would like to look at the story without the frame, or better yet always write one without the frame, but I can’t always do it. Some of these bias’ are overpowering.
Glenn you make some very good points here. I know a guy who recently bought a handgun and loves to carry it around with him. One day I asked him who he wanted to shoot, and he told me “I just want to shoot some sumbitch and if I’m lucky it’ll be a nigger.” I was speechless.
Fortunately for the father, absolute ignorance is not a crime. Not even when it is accompanied by an overwhelming desire to shoot something – anything or anyone.