Sen. Chris Murphy today gave an impassioned speech about a string of recent incidents in which people have been shot, and in some cases killed, for making small mistakes like turning into the wrong driveway or going up to the wrong car.
20, was shot and killed in New York on Saturday after mistakenly turning into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house. She was the passenger in a car with three others.about food delivered to the wrong address., 16, was shot in the head and arm last week in Missouri, after he mistakenly rang the doorbell at the wrong house to pick up his siblings.
The shooting of Yarl, who is Black, may have had a "racial component to the case," Clay County prosecutor Zachary Thompson said. Andrew Lester, a white man in his 80s, has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in connection to the shooting.in the U.S., as are experiences with gun-related incidents.
"We are becoming a heavily armed nation, so fearful and angry and hair-trigger anxious that gun murders are just the way in which we work out our frustrations," Murphy said. "This is a dystopia and I'm here to tell you that it's a dystopia that we've chosen for ourselves.
"This mixture is leading to our neighborhoods becoming a killing field," he said. "Minor slights and indiscretions, even simple wrong turns are becoming potentially deadly."
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