My wife was putting up lost dog posters (a neighbor’s dog) at a local Kroger shopping center on Thursday when she witnessed a shootout from feet away, beginning to end, getting herself just out of the line of fire in the nick of time. This in a safe, residential neighborhood. All courtesy of current gun laws that allow any schmuck to buy high powered assault rifles and 100 round magazines. She’s lucky to be alive!
As she stopped before pulling out of the aisle behind the black car in the photo, two men in a late model pickup stopped in front of the car, rolled down darkened windows halfway down, and began rapid firing AR15s at the black car with two occupants. Dozens of shots at the car during the first volley and an equal number during the ensuing gunfight. The police ran out of yellow evidence markers and had to have some more brought in because of the sheer number of shells laying on the pavement. And they said there were probably an equal number inside the cab of the pickup from the 2nd shooter in the driver’s seat.
As the guys in the pickup started to drive off, the occupants of the black car began firing at the pickup. The late model pickup with the AR15s sped around behind the gas pumps and continuing rapid fire towards the car as they circled the kiosk and pumps. A quick thinking (and heroic) the gas kiosk worker put herself in the line of fire to come out and get a couple people pumping gas inside when the initial shooting began 50’ away in the parking lot.
This happened in broad daylight. In a shopping center where you’re only supposed to be concerned with buying groceries, not AR15s and shootouts. Just as kids or churchgoers or any of us should be able to go anywhere without having to worry about the same thing.
Current gun laws are turning America into a Wild West. Do something, Congress!! The rest of us can do our part and vote, contribute, and volunteer for progressive candidates. We need to make the acronym “NRA” as unpalatable to the masses as “STD” Heck, guns kill far more people.
Thank you for recommending this. I hate that I even had to write this diary. This is life in America with the GOP as the NRA’s lapdogs bitches. Thanks to them, incidents like this can involve anyone, anywhere, anytime.
I’m with the Parkland students: VOTE!! We need to flip Congress and DO something about getting military grade assault weapons off the street and 100 round magazines banned (like these guys used). It’s the only way innocent people like my wife, a sweet healer, and school students and churchgoers and everyone else can go about their daily lives without having to worry about being victims of gunfire with assault weapons.
BTW, the 3 TV crews she agreed to do an interview with edited out her comment that “there’s no excuse for anyone except the military and law enforcement to have these kinds of weapons!”