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Spitfire of ATJ

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21. This stuff has ALWAYS been going on. It's only now that it gets attention....
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 12:25 AM
Feb 2013

It's like this show I saw where they were looking for a missing kid. They go to the city morgue and ask, "Just how many 12-year-old John Does can you have back there?" and the jaded clerk says, "You really don't want to know."

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
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