A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door.
Prosecutors have charged Jaylen Johnson with manslaughter and armed criminal action in connection with the shooting death on Thursday of his mother, Monica McNichols-Johnson.
McNichols-Johnson’s shooting death came less than a year after another shooting in Missouri saw Ralph Yarl, then 16, get shot on 13 April by 84-year-old Andrew Lester after ringing the wrong doorbell while picking up his siblings.
I don’t want to ruin your little gish gallop, but the act of “home invasion” is fundamentally different in the UK and the US.
You and your little pro-gun cult friends have ensured that criminals have easy, widespread access to handguns, turning “somebody stole my iPad” into “somebody stole my iPad and then shot me in the spine”.
You’ve had over 20 years to prove your bullshit claims of “guns prevent crime” and not only are crimes not significantly prevented, you’ve created a massive excess of far more serious crimes.
Yes, I alluded to this by rhetorically asking why US burglars are half as willing to break in while an occupant is home. Still wondering why that would ever be.
Household burglaries ending in homicide make up 0.004% or 1 in 25,000 break-ins, and with national firearm injury rates being roughly double homicide rates that should mean roughly 1 in 8,333 break-ins leave the homeowner injured or killed to guns. That would math to 108 households in 2021 with occupants killed/injured by guns in 2021, or over 1 in a million yearly odds. Compared to the near-identical odds between the 2 countries of being assaulted or having other violent crime done against you if you see the burglars (27% vs 26%), it’s a weird edge case to focus on while dismissing the entire collection of crime it’s a minuscule subset of.
Also wild to see “you’ll be shot while complying” in this argument, normally it’s people saying anyone practicing self-defense thinks they’re Rambo and that they’d be better off just ascribing best-intentions to the assailant and giving them what they want.
Again, the point of this isn’t to say that concern about gun violence is wrong or nutty, it’s to argue that concerns about violent home invasion are even less paranoid than that.