Another Mad Gun Killer–Where Is Surge America Needs?

Something needs to be done before it’s too late. Something must be done to save this nation. Iraq has been the beneficiary of a U.S. led surge to tame gun violence. If a surge is good to preserve the lives of people overseas how about one right here for Americans?

[Black Star News Editorial]

They say he shot her seven times, execution style, and murdered her.

He had apparently harbored resentment for these last two years, since their paths crossed at a summer class at New York University. Perhaps romance was spurned?

It’s not clear what his calling in life was; aimless, according to some news reports. She, on the other hand, was an intellectual, a student at Wesleyan, the reputable small liberal arts college in Middletown, Conn.

As far as is known, she did not own or carry a gun; certainly not a hand gun.

On that afternoon, he stormed into the cafe where she worked on campus, holding the gun, and soon donning a wig, before killing her. She was defenseless. Perhaps he was a deranged man. And he had a gun. And a thing or two against Jews as well, according to news accounts.

And so, Stephen P. Morgan, 29, drifter, killed Johanna Justin-Jinich, 21, book worm. Then the coward fled.

Every time such a senseless killing occurs, gun advocates are quick to chime, “Guns don’t kill.” Well, a gun killed Justin-Jinich.

Gun advocates will argue that in this case, Morgan would have found another way to murder Justin-Jinich anyway.

He might have strangled her, they may argue; he might have run her over with his car; he might have stalked her and then bashed her head with a baseball bat; he might have pummeled the back of her skull with a brick; or cracked her skull with an iron bar; or he might have stabbed her viciously in the heart; or perhaps he might have even slit her throat.

He preferred a gun.

As have many other recent killers, such as the mad shooter in Binghamton, New York; or at Virginia Tech. In all these cases, a gun was the weapon of choice.

A gun is efficient. Once the bullet is let loose, the victim is in no position to resist. It is relatively fast. Its results very final–especially when someone fires seven bullets into a person at point blank range, as in the case with Morgan against Justin-Jinich.

It was a hand gun of course in Morgan’s case. Not a hunting rifle; not a shot gun; nothing that anyone can argue is designed to protect a home and a family against intruders, potential burglars, potential rapists.

A hand gun, when not in the hands of law enforcement, is very efficient and convenient for committing murders. Consider that they are sometimes even dangerous in the hands of trigger-happy police officers that discharge recklessly, with murderous consequences; and these are trained individuals.

So imagine a powerful hand gun, in the hands of ordinary citizens; easily acquired. Including by Morgan, to madly murder Justin-Jinich.

Something needs to be done before it’s too late. Something must be done to save this nation.

Iraq has been the beneficiary of a U.S. led surge to tame gun violence and Afghanistan is about to benefit from a surge.

If a surge is good to preserve the lives of people overseas how about one right here for Americans?



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