*Â This extremely sad article reopens the conversation about the need for more strict laws on gun control.
Simply put: firearms are in the hands of too many of the wrong people. Teens are killing and being killed in the whole gang-war issue; guns are being used in home invasions; people are choosing to end their lives using this method;Â and now, a man who obviously felt his masculinity had been compromised or his ego bruised after a woman in a bar declined his advances, tracked her down, and shot and killed her.
All of these scenarios had one thing in common: A GUN.
The woman, 29-year-old Janese Talton-Jackson, a mother of two, was found lying in the street on North Lang Avenue at approximately 2 a.m. A shooting in the Homewood area of Pittsburgh had been reported and police took 41-year-old Charles McKinney into custody soon after.
WTAEÂ reports that McKinney approached the woman at Cliff’s Bar, but Talton-Jackson wasn’t interested and declined the approach. It was then that McKinney followed the woman outside of the bar and shot her in the chest.
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