An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice in his backyard on Christmas is believed to have shot and killed an elderly woman a few blocks from his home, authorities said.
Cody Wayne Adams, 33, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the deadly shooting, court filings show.
The victim was on a covered front porch with family members at a residence in Comanche when she was shot Thursday afternoon, according to the probable cause affidavit. She was holding a baby in her left arm while seated on a love seat when she was struck in her right upper arm, according to the affidavit. The bullet then entered her chest cavity, it said.
And this is why we shouldn’t just let every fuckhead idiot have a gun.
Gun ownership should come with a psych test and some kind of basic system for ensuring people understand the gravity of the device they are purchasing at minimum. As it stands, I can walk into a pawn shop a few blocks away and have a weapon in almost no time, and I’m all kinds of fucked up.
Nope, every time this country has put in some kind of “test” to access a right it’s ultimately used by racists to disenfranchise people of color and anyone else they find undesirable.
Maybe a mandatory class that’s simple based on attendance could work, but anything that requires someone making a subjective call will be abused