This is how fast things seem to be devolving in gun-crazed America. It’s been barely a week since we were stunned by the news that Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old honors student who accidentally rang the wrong doorbell at a Kansas City home, was shot in the head by the 84-year-old homeowner who answered the door.
Just a few days later, a man was shooting to kill at a 6-year-old girl and her parents, because his property had been violated ... by a basketball. Authorities in Gaston County, North Carolina, say that a 24-year-old man became so angry that the ball bounced into his yard that he emerged with a gun and started shooting, yelling “I’m going to kill you” at little Kinsley White and her parents. The girl needed stitches from bullet fragments, while her dad is hospitalized.
Ralph and Kinsley are on the road to recovery. Kaylin Gillis, a 20-year-old from rural upstate New York, wasn’t so lucky. She was a passenger in one of two cars struggling to find a party in a neighborhood of gravel roads and no cell service when they entered the wrong driveway — and 65-year-old Kevin Monahan fired into her vehicle, killing her. The county sheriff has said Monahan, charged with second-degree murder, “has shown no remorse.”
