Sunday, July 29, 2012

Problem: Miami Man, Driving Around, Randomly Shooting People
Solution: Far Fewer Firearms,
NOT more gun nuts armed to the teeth shooting up the city

Florida has a lot of guns, and pioneered the shoot first laws that allow, and some would say encourage (by removing penalties and civil liability) doing so.
It has been established by repeat investigations by the St. Petersburg and other papers that Florida does very lax investigations, allowing firearms permits in the hands of people with warrants out for their arrest, active felons, and domestic abusers and drug addicts.  Their online permit process is deplorable, allowing people in other states beside Florida to receive permits who should equally be prohibited by any conscientious and effective permitting process.
This is just ONE of the many reasons why conscientious and responsible states should not recognize the permits of lax states like Florida.  It is just one of the many many many reasons why Florida has so many news events of terrible shooting incidents like this one.  The Florida shoot first laws and gun permit process is an unmitigated disaster for the citizens of Florida and for the rest of the country where people use their online permit process.  Florida's terrible record is one of the best reasons shoot first laws should be rendered null and void by a federal law, and why we need something that works, not more NRA / ALEC special interest laws that cause death and injury, for no better purpose than making the gun manufacturers a little richer.

From MSNBC.com and Ch. 6:

Miami cops search for man randomly shooting victims


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Erin Cash
Miami authorities are searching for a man driving around and shooting at unsuspecting victims.
Police said three people were shot at random by 23-year-old Erin Cash on Sunday morning.
The conditions of the victims were not immediately known.
Cash is wanted for attempted murder, police said.

and

Authorities continue searching for a gunman who shot three people in Northwest Miami Sunday.
Miami Police issued a lookout alert for 23-year-old Erin Cash around noon, for a "suspect randomly driving around shooting at victims," according to a release.
The incident began as a domestic dispute when Cash and a woman riding in his car got into an argument, police said. The women threw herself out of the car, but a toddler remained inside the vehicle, Miami Police said.
Cash then went to the home of the woman's relatives for revenge, shooting three. Two of the victims were relatives of the woman.
The baby was found safe inside the home of a grandparent, police said.
Police said the injuries suffered by the victims were non-life-threatening.
Cash is wanted for attempted murder. His last known address is 1255 NW 72 Street in Miami.

4 comments:

  1. His girlfriend jumped out of his moving car and left the baby in the car with him. He then went to the girlfriends house and started shooting at her friends and family. How is this random and how could he have not used a knife or his car as a weapon. How is it the guns fault?? Love how you twist the truth to try and prove a false point.

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  2. Welcome to Penigma MacCali; it appears the people at the girlfriend's house may not have been the ONLY people at whom he shot, but rather that he shot at people not identified in the article who were just walking down the street as well. It also appears that at the girlfriend's house he was shooting without knowing at least some of the people, who don't seem to have any connection to the girlfriend or the child.

    It is the police and the media who describe the shooting as random rather than targeting specific people known to the shooter. What part of their description do you believe to be false, since their names have not been released yet? You in fact don't know much information about this event at all, so your claims exceed your foundation for them.

    Gun nuts do that a lot.

    It is the fault of this clearly unsuitable man getting access to a firearm in a lax-firearm regulation state that is the problem. You haven't refuted any of those points, or made one of your own -- but please feel free to have another go at it if you think you can improve on your first failure.

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  3. MacCali, if I might clarify for you.

    From the news report, there were three people HIT by gun fire; there appear to be additional people who were shot AT, but not hit.

    The latter appear to be the random people referred to in the headlines. As to firearms, they tend to be more lethal in instances where someone has lethal intent, with less risk to the user, than the other means you mention. They also tend to be cheaper than those alternate means, at the same time firearms don't serve additional constructive uses.

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  4. Dog- The one thing that this article is missing, is if the firearm used was legally purchased. I'm sorry, but that really matters to me. The fact that the young child was unharmed leads me to believe that this kid wasn't nuts, but just a piece of s##t criminal with no respect for human life.

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