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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
One good thing about the Reno, Nevada mess with the Michelle Mitchell murder and its solution is that the National Judicial College is at the University of Nevada, Reno. Home | The National Judicial College (UNR) Michelle Mitchell lost her life close to the UNR campus on 2-24-1976. She was a 19 year old nursing student and not too far from the nursing school when murdered. Of course, the co-eds were very scared that this killer might return to campus. I got two BAs at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her murder was "solved" in 1979.
The boy who shot me in the left pinky around 1974 with a BB gun went into a mental health treatment program soon after that and is now a very successful Reno businessman. Or looks like it. |
I was shot in the back by a guy with a BB rifle, when I was in high school. We were at a strip-mall parking lot near the school and I was walking back to class after lunch, he and his buddies were also returning, but a little bit behind me.
I never reported it because these were known bullies, and I knew if I reported it and one of the kids got in trouble, the others in the group would have made the next 3 years of high school a living nightmare.
They weren't mentally ill, and they were legally allowed to own the rifles. No one stopped them, no one called the police when they heard the shot (BB guns aren't silent afterall).
The BB lodged around 1/10th inch deep into the flesh under my shoulderblade. If it had gone two inches to the left I would have suffered permanent spinal damage.
He was aiming for my buttocks.
Fast forward to my early marriage years, when I was in my 30's. Beloved spouse had a BB gun but kept it in storage in the condo basement, which was a shared space under the building, each unit separated by chicken-wire walls.
Some kid from the next building broke into the cellar, broke into our unit, and stole the BB gun. He then proceded to go up the hill to another building, and shot through the screen window of a neighbor. The neighbor's infant child was sitting in a high chair at the table near the window.
I do not, have never, and never will approve of guns, for anyone, for any reason. But I acknowledge and appreciate that they are a necessary part of law enforcement and military. I also acknowledge that - especially in today's mess of a society, people need to maintain their right to own and carry guns to protect themselves against a tyrannical government (which is what the 2nd Amendment was written to do in the first place).