Veteran Discovers That Los Angeles Is Deadlier Than Afghanistan

by JASmius



Good thing L.A. is a "gun-free" city, huh?  Otherwise, Francisco Garcia would be even more dead:

Hundreds gathered Sunday at a makeshift sidewalk memorial in Los Angeles to honor an Army soldier who had been gunned down hours earlier, just months after returning from the treacherous battlefields of Afghanistan.

Francisco Garcia, 21, was killed moments after leaving a party that had carried in to Sunday's wee hours when an unknown assailant pulled up in a car, confronted him and then fired the deadly shot, police said. Garcia, who had been honorably discharged after an eighteen-month stint in Afghanistan and hoped to become a California Highway Patrol officer, was pronounced dead at the scene.

“The ironies are obvious,” Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant Paul Vernon told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles. “To survive as a soldier in an overseas conflict, only to be killed in your old neighborhood upon your return.”

The family and friends of Mr. Garcia can, however, take comfort and solace in the fact that Dianne Feinstein, as part of Barack Obama's illegal amnesty decree, will no doubt have a category of trigger locks named after him, or an equally banal, exploitive "tribute".