#gun-violence

#gun-violence

A piece of metal on a bench where my brother died ... doesn't do anything for the pain.

Eyewitnesses described a moment of sheer panic as they saw the gunman, Evan Fitzgerald, who was reported to have taken his own life following the shooting.

San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe indicated that while the father’s anger over the pranks was understandable, firing a weapon at the teens was not justifiable.

You can say it's too much. Of course it is. You can say there should be more aid. Of course there should. But the nexus of all of it necessarily goes back to the terrorists who started it, who are still there, with the tacit, if not open, respect and support of many people in this country.

I was really shook up by it; it was the first time being Mr. Combs' assistant where I realized my life was in danger.

"The shooting was quite intentional," Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Capt. Jake Sparks told the outlet. "Multiple rounds were fired. It wasn't like as if it were a one-shot accidental discharge. This was numerous rounds discharged. Although the result of the shooting led to an accidental death, this shooting was intentional."

Every death of a garda is a tragedy for our society. Our police force is a rarity because the vast majority of our officers are unarmed... an attack on a garda remains regarded as an attack on society.