Stray Bullets

At three o'clock in the afternoon a fifteen year old boy was walking home from school. Little did he know directly across the street from him an attempted robbery was in progress.

As two men burst through the front doors of The Gun Room towards the street, a swarm of bullets followed. Opposite them, the kid walking home from school caught a couple of rounds. He was in the wrong place at the right time. Staggering up the sidewalk, he managed to make it through a parking lot to a Payless Shoe Store. He shoved the front door open and collapsed. No doubt from shock and blood loss. Employees inside the shoe store immediately attended to the boy and called for help. Luckily, he lived.

Only two local Bay Area newspapers presented an accurate account of what happened that day. What I found particularly interesting about this situation was how the story was manipulated by gun rights activists a few weeks later. From reading their accounts of the facts you'd never know an innocent bystander had been shot twice during the bungled robbery at The Gun Room. Were hardcore gun fiends deliberately omitting information just to further their own agenda or had they simply done a slob job reporting the story? I suppose we'll never know.