After every one of these events, they want to take guns away from people who didn’t do it.
I do kinda wonder about that neighborhood, though, that the store felt the need to have an armed guard on the premises. (He actually fired at the creep, but the creep was wearing body armor. Or so we’re told.)
Yes, it appears to be a small store, no pharmacy, so the need for a security guard does make one wonder. That said, stores in my area have had to hire security guards in recent years even though this is a very low crime area, nice neighborhoods, etc.
Why? Druggies. The grocery stores have pharmacies that druggies from other areas started targeting. A couple of years ago, a druggie knocked an elderly customer down in the parking lot and snatched her bag from the pharmacy.* It was a shock to all of us. Since then, that store and others nearby have had security guards on duty. For a couple of weeks after that awful incident, I saw open carry guys patrolling the store and parking lot, too. I never saw that before, and at first it was jarring, but this is the “new normal” I guess.
Around the same time, the chain drug store a block away installed bulletproof glass around the pharmacy counter and hired a security guard after a couple of armed robberies by druggies. Such things had been unheard-of around here before.
*Fortunately the lady who got knocked down recovered after a hospital stay.
If you lived in Buffalo, you wouldn’t.
Jefferson Ave tells you all you need to know.
I have relatives still living there and they told me this evil has really pulled the community together, and that many of the people shot and killed were apparently Christians, many were active in the local Baptist church there.
There has been a tremendous outpouring of support and food for thar section of the city, in which the Tops was the only place to shop. It is a food desert section.
God is redeeming a very evil incident.
FWIW, since apparently many of the people shot were Christians, it would be no surprise that someone so demonically fueled would pick out people who were Christians to shoot. Of course, the guy wouldn’t know, but the demons would.