LA Times: I was shot in the California desert. Why? That's the wrong question.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

By Calina Ciobanu


https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-02-10/gun-reforms-shooting-violence-california

Why do we keep treating gun violence in the U.S. as a series of isolated incidents instead of an out-of-control epidemic?

Why do we seek the motive of the shooter, as if that knowledge offers protection from future acts of violence, perpetrated by other shooters?

A year and a half ago, on a morning in late summer, I was driving through the California desert, leaving a school camping trip early to make it back to Los Angeles for a cousin’s wedding. It was an ordinary morning, until it wasn’t.

I came upon a man weaving on foot in the middle of the empty two-lane highway. On the side of the road was another man, standing next to a white car. A red gasoline container sat on its hood.

I had no intention of stopping. I knew better.

But I slowed down to avoid hitting the man in the middle of the road, and suddenly he was in front of my car, pointing a gun at me.

I stopped.

[Bristlecone]

1. Why do we keep allowing this indeed.

TY CAPeggy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. You're very welcome, my dear Bristlecone. My thoughts exactly. n/t