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libdem4life

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3. Holy crap...the only thing I can say is that hopefully the increased reporting of these "accidents"

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 09:52 PM

Feb 2013

will help fortify the public will to insist on gun management and force corporate responsibility of the industry that makes it possible. Who can measure the senseless, lost potential to our society of four human beings? But we can surely measure the vehicle and the cost to the public of that loss. ($175 billion per year)

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East Tennessee man kills wife, 2 children, self [View all] spanone Feb 2013 OP

More household guns for protection! Walk away Feb 2013 #1

The house emerged unscathed. Robb Feb 2013 #8

I wish there was a "Like" on this rightsideout Feb 2013 #18

after wiping out their families, cowards always kill themselves. sasha031 Feb 2013 #2

Not really. They usu. kill their family, though. The cowards sometimes chicken out before Honeycombe8 Feb 2013 #9

And one of the most sad things about misguided religion is that it's conventional response is, patrice Feb 2013 #10

women & abuse has gone off the charts sasha031 Feb 2013 #12

The abuse is nothing new, but we hear about it now. Chorophyll Feb 2013 #17

Holy crap...the only thing I can say is that hopefully the increased reporting of these "accidents" libdem4life Feb 2013 #3

Gawd, that is so sad :( n/t arthritisR_US Feb 2013 #4

"it appears that the man fatally shot his wife and children before taking his own life" - But, apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #5

NRA...Video games did it. Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #6

HAH! There ya go... MrMickeysMom Feb 2013 #20

+1 :) Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #23

Those poor children, for what their last sight on this Earth consisted of, their father with a gun patrice Feb 2013 #7

Statistically this happens 3 times every day in the United States alone. redqueen Feb 2013 #11

I am still waiting for the tipping point. Kalidurga Feb 2013 #13

^Sensible. nt Chorophyll Feb 2013 #26

So terribly terribly sad. Whovian Feb 2013 #14

If only everyone had guns, this wouldn't have happened. valerief Feb 2013 #15

And yet I keep hearing that guns make me (a woman) safer! Chorophyll Feb 2013 #16

+100 lunasun Feb 2013 #22

The statistics are correct rightsideout Feb 2013 #19

This stuff has ALWAYS been going on. It's only now that it gets attention.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #21

We need MOAR GUNZ so this can happen more often!!! kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #24

Oh, who cares. Every single day in this country 30 people are killed with guns. SheilaT Feb 2013 #25

Yep, collateral damage of the Second Amendment rightsideout Feb 2013 #27

no Skittles Feb 2013 #28

I don't believe we should take them away... Walk away Feb 2013 #29