Hospitalized 3 times for suicidal tendencies, and the husband let her keep guns?!? I think a sane person would have gathered up the weapons during her first visit and gotten rid of them.
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On top of all her suffering, you want to violate her 2nd amendment rights too?
You monster!
Obviously itās too soon to discuss all the sensible restrictions on gun ownership that we wonāt legislate.
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I had the same thought but for gun people, taking a gun away would be like emptying the kitchen of all knives and selling the cars as well. Gun people think one way. Everyone else another.
mentally ill gun-enthusiast
For the purpose of assigning blame, let me pose the following question: would this supposed illness have kept her from facing trial for a capital crime or 2nd degree crime-of-passion? Would her mental āillnessā have lessened her charges? In Texas?
No?
Then she wasnāt mentally ill. She knew right from wrong but she didnāt care.
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Her symptoms emerged in 2012 after the death of a grandfather she idolized - and from whom she inherited the five-shot, .38-caliber handgun used to kill her children. Her mother died two months later.
He might not have wanted to get rid of her sentimental family heirloom. Plus, even if you sneak the guns out at night, whoās to say she wouldnāt buy more?
I think, that regardless the statistics proving you are more likely to be shot by someone close to you, people donāt believe their spouse will gun down their kids in a fit of vengeance.
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NRA types always argue that there are other objects that could be used to hurt people (despite the fact that only guns are exclusively designed for killing), and ignore the fact that the US army doesnāt deploy armed with clubs.
- Does the 2nd amendment apply exclusively to missile weapons?
Surely we also have the right to brandish bayonets and hunting knives on the streets of Texas?!?
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Oh, I didnāt mean to say that the mentailly ill were more likely to shoot someone. I know that is not true. In fact, the ill are more likely to be victims of violence. But as is pointed out many times, most of the gun deaths in the US are suicides. There is clearly some relationship there that we need to have a better understanding of, and we do not because the NRA blocks funding of the necessary research.
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They donāt believe it, until it happens to them or someone they know. I have personal experience with this. When I was in high school, an acquaintence of mine and his mother were gunned down in an attempted murder/suicide by the father. He and his mother survived but Christ, what an ordeal to live through.
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I will not search for military police riot control images, as your actual point is too important
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Itās the inbreeding
Not a fan of Greek tragedies, I guess.
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ā¦ or misplaced passion (mooslims blowing up our kids! furriners taking our jerbs! gays recruiting our kids! lubruls taking our guns!)
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They seem pretty passionate about fucking stuff up, though.
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Maybe the misplacement means that some other body part is āfullā instead?
Perhaps the rectum?
True enough, unfortunately; see my theory above.
That story was what totally came to mind as soon as I heard she did it just to spite her husband.
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Two dead in short order with a gun. If sheās using a knifeāproblematic at bestāthereās a good chance they pull through. Or she uses her fists. No oneās dead and she gets the help she obviously needs.
And when has the NRA done anything to prevent violence?
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a club!
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Iām not kidding but I started reading this thread while Charpentierās MĆ©dĆ©e was playing in the background.
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Chillingly ironic.
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And then thereās your screen name in the context of opera.
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