Grand jury indicts Arizona shooting suspect

On Wednesday, a grand jury in accused Jared Loughner on 3 counts of being involved in Tucson shooting. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke said "This case also involves potential death-penalty charges, and Department rules require us to pursue a deliberate and thorough process." These indictments only include attempted assassination on Giffords and attempted murder on two federal employees. It only includes 3 murders instead of 5 because they are waiting to get a better case so that Loughner will get the death penalty. This indictment is just for a district court to help hold off for the bigger courts so the prosecutors have more time to get their case together.

I’m glad that the prosecution is taking their time to get things done right, instead of rushing into things just so Loughner will be punished quicker. I think that Loughner deserves the death penalty. He killed six people and I believe it should be a life for a life. Loughner may be insane, but if he is insane enough to go on a killing spree than a little therapy probably won’t help him anyways. Loughner killed a 9 year old little girl, which alone is enough for him to deserve the death penalty. We shouldn’t waste our tax dollars on keeping him alive for the rest of his life when he would just be rotting in jail.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41155912/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Report: Man accused of stalking Kennedy girl

A 41 year old man named Naeem Ahmed was accused of stalking Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana. He was arrested on December 8th for an aggravated harassment charge and a misdemeanor stalking count. He has a $25,000 bail and has to be psychologically evaluated. Ahmed sent her expensive chocolates and flowers and said that he would have stopped sending them if they would have told him to. He told the family not to involve anyone else in the matter. Just Tatiana’s father’s office received over 40 cards, gifts, and phone calls so they cited a criminal complaint. One note said this, “Dearest Tatiana, I love you. Sincerely, Naeem,"

Ahmed acted like he was the victim when he was arrested but really he was the criminal. Tatiana obviously didn’t send anything back to him so after 100 tries he should have gotten the hint that Tatiana didn’t love him back. If he told the family not to involve the police, he already knew that he was doing something wrong and he didn’t want to get in big trouble. It’s good that he has to be evaluated because being so obsessed with someone isn’t right especially when they don’t love you back. I don’t know if he deserves to go to jail because he didn’t hurt anybody but he should have to get lots of counseling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41072491/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

America's 25-year love affair with Glocks

In the Tucson shooting on Saturday Loughner used a Glock 19 to kill 6 people and injure 13 others. It’s a light weight gun common in law enforcement. In 2007, Seung Hui used that same gun to kill 32 people at Virginia Tech. Even Gabrielle Giffords who was injured in the Tucson shooting earlier said she had a Glock 9 millimeter. 65% of law enforcement uses a Glock, and it is very popular with private citizens. In 1986 when Gaston Glock started selling Glocks in the U.S. they held more ammunition than other guns making them more popular. The shooting on Saturday didn’t stop sales though. 60% more guns were bought the Monday after the shooting than the Monday before. Private citizens own 270 million guns.
People aren’t going to stop buying guns because of a shooting. America thinks that guns protect them so if something bad happens they are just going to buy even more to try and protect themselves. This article makes it seem like it is the Glock companies fault for the shootings in the past but really it isn’t. If the shooters didn’t use a Glock they would have just bought a different gun instead. Guns aren’t the reason people are murdered. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Gun sales shouldn’t be made illegal because of one nut job. There are 270 million people that own guns and barely any of them use them to kill people. Banning guns won’t stop murders.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41046787/ns/business-world_business/