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A man in Anchorage, Alaska has shot the manager of a local Walmart over a petty dispute regarding his service dog.
The manager had requested that the man put a leash on his service dog, which accompanies the perpetrator due to his disability.
The disabled man, who was carrying two separate guns, then shot the manager, who is critically injured.
An off duty police officer apprehended the perpetrator as he tried to flee. The perpetrator has decided to represent himself in court.
The Wal Mart store where the shooting occurred did not close nor interrupted business after the shooting, but continued to go on as if nothing had happened, to the dismay of many people in the city.
On their part, the WalMart representative said they did not close operations because there was no danger to the customers after the suspect was apprehended.
This incident, which is truly astonishing, highlights two things: the first is that people are now increasingly settling disputes at the point of a gun, instead of resorting to dialogue or other skills to settle disputes and the second, is that a shooting, even when it is senseless as this one, cracks nary an eyebrow and people seem able to react as if it were almost a natural occurrence. For the business not to close down is unpardonable however.
Even more frightening is the frequency of such incidents, and the fact that almost anyone can walk anywhere with multiple guns and fire away if his mood is contrary on that day.
Even more frightening is the frequency of such incidents, and the fact that almost anyone can walk anywhere with multiple guns and fire away if his mood is contrary on that day.
In the meantime, Congress has set aside an initiative designed to curb the sale of high powered rifles.
One has to wonder why the general population is not more vigorously petitioning lawmakers to protect citizens from gun toting lunatics and otherwise trigger happy people.
Just yesterday, police released news that a would be mass murderer received a high powered rifle and ammunition through a delivery to the dorm in which he lived at the University of Central Florida.
One has to wonder how the people selling these weapons can be so callous that they would deliver a weapon of this kind to a university dorm and not raise an eyebrow or question the motives of the buyer for even one instant.
OP-ED
Source: NBC news/MiamiHerald 3.20.13
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