Greenbrier County residents react to two shootings in one week

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This week has been a traumatic one for people in Greenbrier County where they had two shootings in the matter of 48 hours this week.

And as 59 News found out, people in the area were shocked by the incidents.

Gennetta Motley of White Sulfur Springs said, "I was just scared. And I have never been that way. I have lived here all my life and I have never been terrified to go anywhere until these shootings happened. And I just felt terrified."

Two shootings in Greenbrier County in the matter of two days leave people here shocked.

Roy Booth of Rainelle said, "Yeah, it's bad, but it's been going on so much it's almost like an everyday thing."

First a suicide by cop right along 219 in Lewisburg in rush hour traffic.

Then, a drunken argument turned deadly disaster.

Motley said, "I don't want to go out of my house! I was thinking, we have never had anything like that before. I was worried about just whoever was around."

From last months shooting massacre, to two shootings in one week in Greenbrier County it definitely brings up the question, what should be done about the wrong person having a gun?

Pete Tinney of Marlinton said, "It's the criminal using the gun it's not the honest person. The honest person, they've got their guns for their protection, like me, mine are all for hunting."

Booth said, "It's got to start somewhere with the young ones. So they can grow up educated as to what is right and what is wrong. They get thrown into these video games and violent stuff since they are old enough to push the buttons on the hand controls. And it's what they grow up with, it's crazy."

Motley said, "I just felt like something seriously needed to be done. And it's not a joke anymore. More and more people are getting shot. Innocent people."

The National Rifle Association and the Obama administration met with gun retailers and owners groups Thursday looking for ways to curb gun violence.

Vice President Joe Biden said the administration is considering its own executive action.

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