As far as I can tell, here are the facts. Meleia Willis-Starbuck was hanging out with friends. Some guys decided to hit on them and it didn’t go well. The guys called them bitches. Meleia Willis-Starbuck then, allegedly, calls some friends to do a drive-by shooting on the dudes who called her and her friends bad words. Meleia Willis-Starbuck is shot during this drive-by. And here’s the press coverage, in which it’s called a tragedy:

“No one blames anyone in this,” said Perkins, who spoke at the memorial service and was prepared to speak on Wilson’s behalf in the courtroom. “We are all caught in this matrix created by too many handguns.”

Actually, I do. I blame whoever decided that doing a drive-by because someone’s language offended them. More:

Those who attended the memorial were asked to wear purple wristbands symbolizing the effort to end domestic violence, one of Willis-Starbuck’s causes.

Uhm, how about not doing drive-by shootings?

Update: Meanwhile, Phelps keeps it real.

Posted in uncategorized on July 25th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |