In upstate New York, a 20-year-old woman was killed when she and several friends drove to the wrong address. The 84-year-old white man who, according to the prosecutor, shot him through a glass front door has been charged with first-degree assault the man said he thought the boy was breaking into his home. In Kansas City, Mo., a Black 16-year-old was shot twice, in the forehead and an arm, when he went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers he is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. We’re caught in a spiral in which perceptions of rising crime lead more people to purchase firearms - about 60 million guns have been sold in the United States just since 2020 - and this in turn leads to more gun violence, which leads to more fear and gun purchases …. In most of the world, going to the wrong house is not a deadly risk.īut in the United States it is, because we’re awash in an estimated 450 million guns and suffer from a mass delusion that a gun in the home makes us safer.
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