Outrage: Why America's Gun Laws Need to Change
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=6084
Outrage: Why America's Gun Laws Need to Change
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman
By all accounts, Robert Byland, a resident of New York's Canarsie
neighborhood, was a good man. A youth basketball coach, father and husband,
Byland was caught in a hail of gunfire just blocks from his house, looking
to get his 8-year-old daughter and her 13-year-old cousin off the street
after he heard shots.
He died on Father's Day, doing what a father is supposed to do: Watch out
for his kids. His widow is nine months pregnant with twins that will never
know their dad.
Mr. Byland was killed in the same city that recently tried to jail two other
men who used unlicensed guns to defend their homes. Airman First Class
Manuel Falquez, 22, killed a burglar in his mother's Queen's-area home. The
man he shot was armed with a knife and a .38-caliber revolver. Navy veteran
Ronald Dixon, 27, also a Canarsie resident, shot a career burglar he
discovered in his baby's bedroom.
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=6084
Outrage: Why America's Gun Laws Need to Change
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman
By all accounts, Robert Byland, a resident of New York's Canarsie
neighborhood, was a good man. A youth basketball coach, father and husband,
Byland was caught in a hail of gunfire just blocks from his house, looking
to get his 8-year-old daughter and her 13-year-old cousin off the street
after he heard shots.
He died on Father's Day, doing what a father is supposed to do: Watch out
for his kids. His widow is nine months pregnant with twins that will never
know their dad.
Mr. Byland was killed in the same city that recently tried to jail two other
men who used unlicensed guns to defend their homes. Airman First Class
Manuel Falquez, 22, killed a burglar in his mother's Queen's-area home. The
man he shot was armed with a knife and a .38-caliber revolver. Navy veteran
Ronald Dixon, 27, also a Canarsie resident, shot a career burglar he
discovered in his baby's bedroom.
