On 22 Augustus 2007 Rhys Milford Jones (11) was shot in the back of the neck when he went home from football training. His trial started on 2 October 2008.
Rhys Jones was walking home from football practice across the car park in Croxteth Park when a gunman on a mountain bike shot him. The jury thinks this was an accident. They think that Rhys Jones is the innocent victim of gang feuds. The gunman had planned an assassination of an enemy gang member but Rhys Jones walked into the line of fire. The suspect in crown court is Sean Mercer. Sean Mercer is 18 years old and denies the murder. He was found innocent. Several gang members, were accused of complicity but all of them were pleaded not guilty. The trial continues for 6 to 8 weeks.
I don’t understand that nobody can identify the murderer. It was on a summer evening, so many people were near. Maybe they are scared. Anyhow, this terrifying violence has to stop. It happens in every country for so many stupid reasons. Like the murder on Joe Van Holsbeeck in Belgium. Maybe a prohibition of licence of carry fire arms will make a difference.
Source: : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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By coincidence, I read another news report about the trial of this case. What strikes one most in this article is the tragedy of the story. (The article handles about the reaction of the mother of Rhys Jones, when she went to her dying son.) I think this story is a real nightmare for everybody who reads it and for the family and friends of the victim of course.
I would like to mention that this history and the comments of Ben, make me think of several situations in the past, which also led to the discussion of possession of weapons. In Finland, a man murdered 10 people in his school in September 2008. I remember this country was the third on the world rankings of possession of weapons. Imagine that teens of 15 years old could buy a gun. I think the legal situation is very responsible for events like these and for accidents like the accident of Rhys Jones. Apparently, there must be dead persons, before the law is changed. They made the law a little bit stricter in Finland right now. I’m a supporter of a very strict regulated possession of weapons.
(Source of the article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3197228/Rhys-Jones-mothers-total-shock-as-she-cradled-his-dying-body-in-her-arms.html)
To come back on your proposal of prohibition of carrying a weapon, for some people it is very strict I think. I'm absolutely no advocate of everybody carrying a weapon but perhaps you should know that everybody is scared. We are constantly confronted with cases of murder and violence without a reason. It looks like there is no place where a person is safe. If we think of that, it is normal that everybody wants something to defend theirselves.
I read on the internet that there are schools where students are aloud to carry weapons. In none of those schools there has ever been an serious bloodbath like in Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Probably because that if you shoot someone, you can be shot back by 20 other people. That's absolutely no solution either. But if they are going to ban all the weapons I don't think it will reduce the amount of murders because if someone wants to kill a person, he will do that and if he doesn't have a gun, he will use something else. So we don't have to take away the guns, but rather the violent thoughts of all the possible murderers.
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