People place flowers and balloons at a house in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 9, 2015, where eight people were killed.
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It felt like a summer of mass shootings.
You probably heard about the killings in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white gunman opened fire inside a historic black church, and the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, where a man targeted moviegoers inside a darkened theater. Or the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where an armed attacker sprayed a military recruitment center with bullets.
Here’s one you may not have heard about.
On Aug. 8, David Conley allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend Valerie Jackson’s house in Houston, Texas, and killed her, her husband and her six children, methodically shooting each one in the head. Jackson had recently dumped Conley and reunited with her husband after Conley allegedly smashed her head into a refrigerator. When she reconciled with her husband, she changed […]
In the U.S.A., happiness is a warm gun.
In Greece, anyone who hurts, let alone kills, somebody who violently invades their home is arrested and tried in a court of law. I thought this was harsh until it was pointed out that everyone is considered under the same law and must present their own evidence to justify their actions under a case by case protocol. There is no blanket sentencing but each gets his just deserts, and you really don’t want to be interned in a Greek prison by a goverment that is months behind paying its own employees.