A 25-year-old Missouri man says he mistook his mother for an intruder before shooting her to death at their home’s back door.

Prosecutors have charged Jaylen Johnson with manslaughter and armed criminal action in connection with the shooting death on Thursday of his mother, Monica McNichols-Johnson.

McNichols-Johnson’s shooting death came less than a year after another shooting in Missouri saw Ralph Yarl, then 16, get shot on 13 April by 84-year-old Andrew Lester after ringing the wrong doorbell while picking up his siblings.

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      The more you try to ban guns, the harder they fight back.

      How are people living on farms supposed to defend themselves against robbers if they don’t own guns?

      This is what you city people don’t understand because you think city life is the only life that matters.

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        No one’s trying to ban guns you fucking twat.

        Under the current laws on the books, federal funds can’t even be used to be study gun violence. These are the laws people are talking about changing when we call for gun policy reform. When this country talks about gun reform and idiots like you who understand exactly nothing about the laws currently on the books have a conniption, these are the kinds of laws that end up not getting changed.

        Guns make every environment they are a part of less safe. You only need a gun to defend yourself if you’re a huge pussy, or you want the opportunity to accidently shoot your own family members. You don’t need a gun in the city or the country to defend yourself.

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          Lots of people are trying to ban guns. Plenty of campaigns and bills come up all the time.
          It’s unrealistic to believe they’ll have a significant amount of support, even in the most liberal of states, but saying that nobody wants to ban guns is false.

          Also, saying that there’s never a need for a gun in modern society is false. There are absolutely cases where people have legally defending themselves in situations where few people would disagree with the usage. Those cases are also very rare and the availability of guns in society is a net negative, you are significantly more likely to be harmed by a firearm if you own one.

          All that being said, blanket falsehoods do not help these arguments. We do need to study firearm deaths, and amend the constitution to allow for better laws around firearms, but we don’t need to exaggerate to make that point, the facts are enough.

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        How are people living on farms supposed to defend themselves against robbers if they don’t own guns?

        Why is this only a problem in the US? You don’t think other countries have farmers? Or maybe that problem only exists in your head.

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            I don’t live in the US. I live in a rural area in Europe. It’s not at all a problem here. Probably only a problem in shithole countries like the US.

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                There are other shithole countries other than the US.

                If you need guns just to be safe, you by definition live in a shithole.

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                  What are you gonna tell me next, no ones ever broke into a rural property late at night in your country?

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                    You think lethal violence is an appropriate response to a burglary? If you responded like that over here you’d be going to prison for far, far longer than the burglar would.

                    You don’t need a gun, you need a shrink.

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        If you need guns in order to feel safe at home, you must admit you live in a shithole country

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        Think. About. The farmers.

        Stupidest reason a pro gun person ever brought up on lemmy. You know there are more convincing ones that you can make yours so at least people can take you seriously?

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        Clearly something that needs an investigation and lots more data

        …. But this “city person” believes people in rough parts of cities are most likely demographic to be victim of gun crimes, and most of us are in more danger from guns kept as defense than in a criminal’s hands. Also, guns used for hunting are different than guns typically used in crimes or for defense. You may disagree, but that’s why better data is important