Number One With Bullets!

My mother always told me that "There is no lesson, like a bought lesson."  What she meant was that the best lesson learned in life is one in which you had to pay some type of consequence...That's a bought lesson, that's the one that sticks with you...That's the "I aint gonna do that no more...I can't afford this.."type of lesson.

How many bought lessons concerning guns does America have to have?  Or I should say...How many bought lessons will it take before the damn NRA decides to talk sensibly about serious gun control and stop with this nonsense about people needing high velocity, military style weaponry such as the Bushmaster assault rifle used in the Newtown School shootings?

The mass murders at Aurora ,Colorado and Newtown ,Conneticut apparently wasn't enough!   The year isn't a month old yet and already there have been two mass shootings...

An argument between two people erupted in gunfire on Tuesday at the Lone Star College-North Harris campus near Houston and left them and a third person wounded, authorities said.

The two men who were arguing and a bystander were shot in the Tuesday incident outside the library at the North Harris campus of Lone Star College. Authorities early Wednesday charged 22-year-old Carlton Berry with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Court records did not list an attorney for Berry.

Harris County Sheriff's Office spokesman Thomas Gilliland said the 25-year-old, identified in court records as Jody Neal, did not have a weapon. Berry was the only person who shot a weapon during the incident, Gilliland said.

Thomas Gilliland said authorities are trying to figure out if the argument between Berry and Neal was an "ongoing altercation or if it stemmed from that day" and whether the two were students at the community college. The sheriff's office was expected to discuss its ongoing investigation at a news conference later Wednesday.

 The volley of gunshots around noon Tuesday at Lone Star College, located in north Houston, prompted a lockdown then evacuation of the campus. Students were allowed to return to campus and retrieve their vehicles later Tuesday. Classes at the campus resumed on Wednesday.

And in Albuqueque...The news is even worse! 
A 15-year-old Albuquerque boy has confessed to killing his mother, father and three small siblings in a rampage at their home early Saturday morning, according to a probable cause statement by authorities.
The boy also told police he wanted to "drive to a populated area" to "shoot people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with law enforcement," according to the statement, which was posted online by local media.

But after the killings at his family's home, the boy went to, get this  church.

At the Calvary Church, where his father had been a pastor, he began to spin stories that would later unravel under interrogation. According to court documents, after arriving at the church, the boy told his girlfriend and her grandmother that his family had died in a car crash.

The document doesn't say how police were led to the boy's home, but after they discovered the bodies, the boy told officers that he found the bodies and wasn't home at the time of the shooting. According to the statement, he called his father's body a "carcass."
The father, a chaplain who volunteered with the local fire department, had been shot in the head with a military-style AR-15 rifle, police said – the type of rifle used in the massacres in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo.

The boy's case is being handled by the juvenile court system. He has not been charged as an adult.
The boy's interrogator, who signed the statement as "A. Gaitan," slowly set out the boy's initial comments to investigators: He admitted that, yes, he'd packed guns into the family van he drove to church; yes, he had fired them, but in the backyard, and only "in anger" after discovering his family's bodies; and yes, he did touch the shell casings.

When the police interviewer told the boy, who said he didn't want an attorney or an adult present, that his story didn't make sense, the youngster confessed, police said. He said he had "anger issues" and had been "annoyed" with his mother.

Around midnight, early Saturday morning, the boy began to feel homicidal and suicidal, took a .22 rifle out of his parents' closet, and shot his mother in the head, police said. She was in bed with the boy's 9-year-old brother, who woke, and then became upset. The boy shot him too, according to police.
At that point, according to police documents, the boy "lost his conscience" and shot his 5- and 2-year-old sisters in the head in their bedroom, where they were crying.


The boy "stated he hid and waited until his father had walked past him and he then shot his father multiple times with the rifle," the probable cause statement said.
The statement's author, Gaitan, learned about the youth's plans to die in a large public shooting with police, though the boy still had another detail to share.

"I asked [the boy] if he had told anyone else about murdering his family," Gaitan wrote, "and he stated he had taken a picture of his deceased mother and sent it to his girlfriend."

It's not clear who the guns belonged to. Friends described the father as a former "gang-banger" before beginning his years as a chaplain. Neighbors told local media that the boy had been home-schooled and that the family's children were forbidden from watching violent or objectionable media.


Two mass shootings ,one month....the year isn't 30 days old yet and we still are debating sensible gun control!  Doesn't sound like America is learning from any bought lessons to me..  Well, at least not the NRA!