On 3/16/21, a young man shot & killed 8 persons, 6 of which were Asian women, in 3 different spa-businesses he intentionally targeted, in Atlanta, GA. The shooter was arrested & claimed to have been motivated by his own sex-addiction; he’s charged with 8 murders, though Atlanta is reluctant to charge him with hate-crimes. A hate-crime includes motivation rooted in bias; obviously these crimes were motivated by 21-year-old, Robert Aaron Long’s biased-beliefs. Long had been cast out of the Baptist church he’d been raised in, as the youth-pastors deemed him “not a regenerate believer in Jesus Christ”. There’s been an alarming uptick in anti-Asian violence in America over the last year.
A mass-murderer entered King Soopers grocery on Table Mesa, in Boulder, CO, on Tuesday, March 22, and began shooting. People ran, hid, tried to rescue others, and died, as the 21-year-old killer, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, opened fire. Some people, there to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots at the pharmacy, others to buy postage, mail letters, buy groceries. This shooting ‘hit close to home’ for me, as my son & teenage grandson, live in Boulder, a few to several blocks from this King Soopers. Knowing they shop there, hearing of the active shooter in the supermarket, I texted my son, asking him to call me, which he did. They were home & safe, but my grandson told me he’d been outside, walking their dog, and could hear police activity from blocks away & saw a helicopter with camera overhead. Ten people, ages 20 to 65, were murdered, including one outstanding 51-year-old officer, Eric Talley, father of seven children. Joe Neguse, D-U.S. Rep, from Boulder said, “This cannot be our new normal; we should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores, in our schools, movie theatres & in our communities. We need to see a change, because we have lost far too many lives.”
The U.S. Senate Judiciary met 3/23, in a pre-scheduled meeting to debate and address gun violence. President Biden spoke, asking the Senate to immediately pass both House gun-control bills, one to close background-check loopholes in private gun sales; he said, “we should also ban automatic weapons & high-capacity magazines in the process. This is an American issue that will save lives, and we have to act”. A state district judge blocked Boulder from enforcing its 2-year-old ban on assault-weapons & large-capacity mags 10 days before this mass-murder. Tragedy after tragedy; events seem to be moving us toward abolishing or reforming the filibuster. ** This is a public-health epidemic! We can take appropriate measures to save lives! It is within our ability to do this. We had a ten-year ban on assault weapons, passed on 9/13/94 by a 52-48 vote, signed by President William Jefferson Clinton.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Mar 26 2021
Gun violence in America
On 3/16/21, a young man shot & killed 8 persons, 6 of which were Asian women, in 3 different spa-businesses he intentionally targeted, in Atlanta, GA. The shooter was arrested & claimed to have been motivated by his own sex-addiction; he’s charged with 8 murders, though Atlanta is reluctant to charge him with hate-crimes. A hate-crime includes motivation rooted in bias; obviously these crimes were motivated by 21-year-old, Robert Aaron Long’s biased-beliefs. Long had been cast out of the Baptist church he’d been raised in, as the youth-pastors deemed him “not a regenerate believer in Jesus Christ”. There’s been an alarming uptick in anti-Asian violence in America over the last year.
A mass-murderer entered King Soopers grocery on Table Mesa, in Boulder, CO, on Tuesday, March 22, and began shooting. People ran, hid, tried to rescue others, and died, as the 21-year-old killer, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, opened fire. Some people, there to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots at the pharmacy, others to buy postage, mail letters, buy groceries. This shooting ‘hit close to home’ for me, as my son & teenage grandson, live in Boulder, a few to several blocks from this King Soopers. Knowing they shop there, hearing of the active shooter in the supermarket, I texted my son, asking him to call me, which he did. They were home & safe, but my grandson told me he’d been outside, walking their dog, and could hear police activity from blocks away & saw a helicopter with camera overhead. Ten people, ages 20 to 65, were murdered, including one outstanding 51-year-old officer, Eric Talley, father of seven children. Joe Neguse, D-U.S. Rep, from Boulder said, “This cannot be our new normal; we should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores, in our schools, movie theatres & in our communities. We need to see a change, because we have lost far too many lives.”
The U.S. Senate Judiciary met 3/23, in a pre-scheduled meeting to debate and address gun violence. President Biden spoke, asking the Senate to immediately pass both House gun-control bills, one to close background-check loopholes in private gun sales; he said, “we should also ban automatic weapons & high-capacity magazines in the process. This is an American issue that will save lives, and we have to act”. A state district judge blocked Boulder from enforcing its 2-year-old ban on assault-weapons & large-capacity mags 10 days before this mass-murder. Tragedy after tragedy; events seem to be moving us toward abolishing or reforming the filibuster. ** This is a public-health epidemic! We can take appropriate measures to save lives! It is within our ability to do this. We had a ten-year ban on assault weapons, passed on 9/13/94 by a 52-48 vote, signed by President William Jefferson Clinton.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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