A British schoolgirl visiting relatives in a tiny rural village in northern Jamaica was fatally shot when a lone gunman opened fire on a group of family members as they gathered at a roadside shop, officials said Sunday. Imani Green, 8, of Balham in south London, was standing inside a clapboard grocery store and bar with relatives on Friday evening when a gunman wearing a hoodie shot the child in the head and shoulder before also shooting three adult members of her family.
Individual (civilian) ownership of firearms are, of course, forbidden by law in both Great Britain and Jamaica.
That worked out will, didn't it?
I'm sure that the family of this young girl felt entirely "safe", knowing that the tropical garden spot which is Jamaica was an islandic "Gun Free Zone:", where nothing could possibly go wrong.
If it's not too insensitive to mention, it's not just that they were in Jamaica, the home of the infamous machine-gunning incident on the Golf course. The same thing could have happened at her home in England.
Neither states allow private ownership of firearms.
The presumption is that .. if you just keep people from being able to own firearms, nobody will shoot anyone else.
Guns don't kill people: people kill people.
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