Monday, August 8, 2011

Was it really that serious

You have to be cautious about what you say, because it could get you killed.

That's what was going through my mind when I heard about the story of two gunman who opened fire on a Philadelphia bus back n June. You can see the story here.

Apparently, according to various news sources, one of the male passengers was criticizing the way a woman was disciplining her son on the bus. As the news stories would tell it, the woman made a phone call, and when she got off the bus, police say she was met by the brother of the father of her son. The mother allegedly pointed at the male passenger that complained about her disciplining her.

Media outlets then say that two men approached the bus armed with weapons and fired 13 shots at the passengers. The good news is no one was injured.

The bad news is - that something so simple could push a person to get so angry that they would do something like this. Was this man's criticisms on this woman's child rearing serious enough that someone needed to endanger a bus full of people?

What does this say about these young men that attempted to do the shooting. Pure insanity. That's the only thing I can make of it.

Here is some footage of the ordeal.

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