We’re going to start here with some breaking news this morning. Two people are dead, a third person wounded after a shooting inside of this condo building in the Lehigh Valley. Police say a man and a woman died in a burst of gunfire in the Canal Park development in Easton, then a bullet went through a wall striking a third person in the leg, who had just happened to be in the condo next door.
Police tell us no shooter is being sought, so the public is not in danger. Investigators are still on the scene trying to figure out a motive.
Okay, yeah, Yahoo news, so we shouldn’t expect too much in the way of professional journalism.
Two people were killed, then a person next door is injured by another bullet. No shooter is being sought.
Did the gun go off in a burst of gunfire all by itself? Are we looking at the first ever guns do kill people (vs. people kill people, as the saying goes)?
It does, and my commentary wasn’t intended to make light of the incident itself.
It’s the reporting in this particular segment that I find ridiculous. More generally, I wish the news would be more exact with how it reports gun tragedies, especially when many in the anti-2A camp are quick to react on incomplete or erroneously reported facts.