Yet another reason for strictly limiting the right to own guns to trained professionals who actually need a gun for their job:
Police: 9-Year-Old Kills Mom, Self (CBS/AP)When several family members forced their way into the suburban red brick home Glenda Pulley lived in with her nine-year-old son, they found the residents' two dead bodies and a suicide note from the son, Tyler. Police and local Sherrif's deputies are calling the shooting deaths a murder-suicide, saying they found evidence that Tyler Pulley shot his 38-year-old mother on Saturday before turning the gun on himself, according to reports on WRAL-TV.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/18/national/main688995.shtml
The NRA morons probably don't give a hoot, though. When it comes to the right to own guns, they probably consider tragedies like this 'collateral damage.'
How many more innocent people have to get killed before America wakes up?
I dunno. While the death of any innocent person is a tragedy � and indeed, the death of any non-innocent person is usually a tragedy � is the number of people who commit suicide and/or kill family members (other than in self-defence), greater or less than the number of people who employ a firearm in self-defense, many times without ever firing a shot, or the number of people who are not attacked on the street or in their homes because a criminal does not know for sure whether or not a potential victim may be armed and capable of using a firearm effectively or not because he knows that at least some people are likely to be armed and capable of defending themselves (consider an analogy to the monarch and viceroy butterflies, frex)?
-- Ronn! :)
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