Fuel for The Anti-Gun Crowd

This story is a horrible story and incredibly sad - I want to get that straight before I say anything. The story is about two gunmen crashing a fifteen year old girl's birthday party; however, knowing the anti-gun crowd will throw this up to attack my freedom to own guns I want to point to a few disturbing facts that will be left out of their (the anti-Gun crowd's) propaganda.

The men apparently had a previous dispute with some of the partygoers, Hialeah police spokesman Jose Caragol said. When the two showed up at the party, some of the revelers threw beer bottles at them to force them to leave.

Did that say beer bottles? This was a teenage party was it not? Not one mention of a parent either at the party or quoted in the paper, gee could that be part of the problem?

Please let me reiterate that two teenagers are dead and one is wounded and this is horrible and those responsible, being the only adults at the party, should be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. However, before we blame the gun, which will be coming, and not the gun wielders, who were the only adults; should we not look at ask some questions. Why was there alcohol at a teenager's birthday party? Where were was the parents of this teenager or at least on of the attending teenagers? If adults were there why was a twenty-four year old man, apparently unrelated, involved in a fifteen year old's birthday? Just wanted to bring all the circumstances I observed in the article instead of simply concentrating on the gun itself!