Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Knock knock. Who's There? (a/k/a Gun control)

is an urban issue, one that I don't write about. But the reason I support gun control is the fact that a majority of gun deaths are domestic. There aren't many average citizens able to immediately defend themselves if they had guns, and the best way to reduce the availability of guns to be used by criminals is to restrict the sale of guns. (We won't even talk about Virginia Tech.)

Anyway, this story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution caught my eye, "Woman shot, killed by husband apparently was taken for intruder." From the article:

Clayton County police have not filed charges against a College Park man who fatally shot his wife Tuesday afternoon as she entered the family's apartment, apparently because he thought she was an intruder.

Horace Henry, 60, fired a .38-caliber revolver when the front door of the family apartment opened a little, said Deputy Chief Tim Robinson said. Henry's wife, Andrea Henry, was struck once in the neck. "He apparently didn't know that she and their daughter had walked outside for a few minutes," Robinson said. "When he heard someone at the door, he said he called out, 'Who's there?' but he said no one answered. He thought she was an intruder and fired his gun."
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