SUBWAY MASSACRE IN MEXICO

I was surfing the web as I usually do when trying to find articles of relevance pertaining to this site when I came across something that truly disturbed me. On September 19, 2009 a mexican man opened fire on a commuter train in Mexico after he was confronted for doing graffiti in the subway. The man was identified as Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, and was arrested carrying a .38-caliber revolver. Instead of a minor infraction, he could be facing the remainder of his life Suspended In Time. An officer was killed during the dispute as well as another man who tried to intervene. Five others were also wounded in the attack. This reminds me of a situation that occurred in 1993 with a man by the name of Colin Ferguson. Both of these incidents transpired in a subway station and involved the use of guns causing bodily injury. In the Ferguson case, this man walked down the aisles of a Long Island Railroad train leaving from Penn Station heading into Hicksville, New York and randomly opened fire on passengers. Six people died, while 19 others were wounded before he was subdued by others. Ferguson was delusional claiming someone else was responsible and was deemed mentally competent to stand for trial. He fired his lawyers opting to represent his self in his own defense. For his blunder, he received 6 consecutive 25-years-to-life terms for the murder conviction; 19 additional 25-year sentences for each count of attempted murder. Carolyn McCarthy, who represents the U.S. House of Representatives 4th District was directly affected by this incident. Her husband was one of the victims who lost his life during Ferguson's rampage. This prompted her to campaign for gun control asking law makers for stiffer penalties for people caught with guns. After years of campaigning, her message was finally heard in Congress. Recently, she was met with fierce opposition from the White House as plans to allow commuters to carry guns on Long Island Railroad trains are set to be repealed. With the state of our country, its sad to see that law makers are only concerned about pleasing lobbyist as opposed to doing whats in the best interest of the people as a whole. God bless this country!