The crime report for her son's shooting should be publicly available. I wonder if her son was an innocent bystander or somehow involved with the teen doing the shooting.
Any pro-2A sleuths out there?
Matthew Charles Blek
21 Years Old
August 29, 1972 to June 29, 1994
Matthew Blek, of Mission Viejo, California, was a talented athlete, musician and scholar who enjoyed hiking and the outdoors, playing the guitar and violin, and was majoring in honors physics and math.
Most of all, Matthew was a warm and caring person who had a bright and promising future - a future cut short by senseless gun violence.
In June of 1994, Matthew Blek was working at a summer job in New York City, with plans to return to California in the fall for his senior year of college. One evening as he and a girlfriend were walking home from a date, they were confronted by three armed teenagers. Although he offered no resistance, Matthew was shot and killed. The youths were murdered Matthew were armed with Saturday Night Specials - cheap and easily obtained handguns, many of which are made in the very place Matthew called home: Orange County, California.
Joseph Lee was convicted of murder and sentenced to nine years to life. The two other teens pleaded guilty to manslaughter (Man-one) and were sentenced to 3 and 1/2 to 10 years in prison.
Lets see... Matthew was in New York, a state that already strict requirements for gun ownership. In order to be able to purchase a gun, you would have to get a permit from the state, which could take close to a year. Why isn't New York safe for law-abiding citizens with all of the gun control hoops law-abiding citizens have to go through to exercise the right guarranteed by the Second Amendment?
What if Matthew Blek was taught proper gun handling when he was young, and had a valid CCW permit from the state of New York when he was confronted by the 3 hoodlums with guns? Sure, its still 3 to 1 odds, but I bet a liberal CCW issuance policy would have encouraged these 3 pondscums to do something else.