Alabama shootings leave seven people dead including child, police say
GuardianJul 20
The Facts
On Saturday, two separate shootings killed seven people in Alabama. A shooting outside a Birmingham home claimed the lives of three individuals, including a young child. Later that night, a Birmingham nightclub shooting killed four people and injured many others.
Birmingham Police and Fire and Rescue officials rushed to the nightclub around 11 pm, finding a dead man on the sidewalk. Two women also died in the shooting, while the University of Alabama's Birmingham Hospital, treating about nine other victims, declared a second man dead.
The Spin
Left narrative
While the motives behind these shootings are unclear, what is known is that there are many more such tragedies to come. The US experiences mass shootings at an unprecedented level due to lax restrictions on military-style weapons. It's time to adopt common-sense gun safety regulations.
Right narrative
Gun restrictions only curtail the freedoms of law-abiding citizens who have a right to buy, own, and use weapons for lawful reasons under the Second Amendment. Every man or woman must be allowed to protect their family against criminals, who won't be deterred by gun limitations anyway.
