The Texas Church Shooting was a tragic event that became the worst mass shooting in Texas shooting. It is said that the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, started shooting as soon as he got out of his car and it was obvious his intentions were to kill everyone. He left 26 people dead, 20 wounded. The big list of victims includes small children that were killed in the head, execution-style, ranging from 1 to 77 years old. Kelley had already been convicted back in 2012 for assaulting his first wife and her baby son and served his time in military prison, which should have taken any rights for him to even own any firearms, but the Air Force claimed that they “failed to forward information about him to the national databases for gun purchase background check”. And that is terrible! That hasn’t been the only thing he was convicted of. He threatened to kill superior officers and actually spend time in a psychiatric hospital in which he actually escaped. Even though I believe that the Air Force has some responsibility for not sending the information to the databases, it is so easy to get firearms. I read that in Texas, that a convicted felon may possess a firearm in the residence he lives in once five years since his release from prison has elapsed. Do you think that law should still stand after this tragic mass shooting? Texas is known to be one of the most lenient states when it comes to gun laws and even though this event happened, I hope that this is an eye-opener that gun laws need to be A LOT stricter than they are right now.
I agree with how you feel about the gun law. It's a really stupid law and I don't believe that people who committed a violent crime should be able to own any firearm. Also, I think that the air force was directly responsible because they were too lazy to forward the arresting information. Why do you think that they forgot to forward the information about him?
ReplyDeleteThis dude illegally got a firearm and used it so I feel that the law wouldn't stop him either way. It was good that someone was there with a gun owned legally to kill him. The only thing a stricter gun law would do would create more victims.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with TJ. I believe that if there were tighter gun laws in Texas, Devin Patrick Kelley wouldn't of been able to obtain a gun so quickly and easily. I do think that if he wanted to shoot the church people again with the tighter gun laws he would be able to do it because of all of the black market weapons around.
DeleteThe gun didn't kill him though, but it did make him stop the shooting and run to his car. It was the chase and the crash that killed him. And just wondering, why do you think that stricter gun laws will create more victims?
ReplyDeleteAlright, you are correct about the killing part, my fault. As for the stricter gun laws, I would say that if the defender didn't have the ability to own the gun then the shooter would have not been met with an opposing force and kept shooting.
DeleteThat's very true, you have a good point. I just feel like there have been so many mass killings this year that include guns that I feel like it is about time we do something about it so that innocent people stop dying. But you have a good point.
DeleteThere are countries with strict gun laws that make obtaining one hard, those countries don't have the huge amount of shootings that we in the US have been witnessing over these last years. Making the ownership of a gun hard through classes and test will help reduce the number of unqualified people owning guns or any weapon such as in japan.
DeleteI completely agree with you. I do not believe this law should stand. If someone has been convicted of a felony, I think it is unreasonable and reckless to grant them the right to possess a firearm. Also, the Air Force's failure to send his information to national databases for gun purchase background checks is completely unacceptable. If they had done their job correctly, it's possible that the Texas Church Shooting would have never happened.
ReplyDeleteEach state had it's own set of gun laws, each being different, and I feel like that makes it hard to push gun control laws on a national level.
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