In the span of a week, three unprovoked shootings occurred in different parts of the country after victims mistakenly approached the wrong house or vehicle. The shootings don't reflect a mass gun ownership problem per se, but it does highlight a problematic intersection of fear, frustration, and paranoia that has resulted in the senseless taking of innocent lives by gun owners. A string of attacks occurred after dark; the mounting vigilante justice shootings include shooting a young Black teen in Kansas City after he rang a white man's doorbell, killing a young woman in upstate New York, and injuring two cheerleaders in a grocery parking lot in Austin, Texas. Experts are divided on whether these incidents serve as a national trend but emphasize that shoots-like-these would not have happened if guns were not prevalent. Later developments will reveal whether these cases will fall under the "stand your ground" law that is pervasive in America.