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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: blnymph

Just national sports NRA league, isn't it?

Well maybe, but I doubt it. The NRA "Shoot Your Ex" competition is a relatively minor division, and shooting yourself too would be an automatic disqualification.

K.

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

This is tragic.

I don't know the current statistics, but the last study I read, of the women killed by domestic partners or ex-partners; about 53% +\- are with firearms (the larger percentage of which are hand guns.)

Thousands of applications for gun ownership are denied because of misdemeanor domestic violence on the applicants record. However, many cases of domestic violence are under-reported.

The other 47% +\-, I haven't read any data on, but not having a gun didn't prevent the other almost 50% murders by the domestic partner/ex-domestic partner.

The last report I read was dated early 2000's. Tighter gun laws, in this instance won't help until victims of domestic violence start reporting the abuse, but unfortunately the risk of murder is higher when the abuse is reported or the victim leaves.

It is tragic. There is no argument for or against guns that can be won in the cases of domestic violence. The killer took his own life, so I can't really see how any justice can be found. The entire situation is heartbreaking.

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ORIGINAL: LadyDemura
How can someone get to that point?

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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire

San Bernardino shooting: Boy, 8, and two adults dead at California primary school

Two adults and a child have been killed in a shooting in a classroom of a primary school in San Bernardino, California, police say.

The suspect shot and killed his estranged wife, a teacher, and wounded two children who were behind her, one of whom died of his wounds.

He then turned the gun on himself, police said.
Police chief Jarrod Burguan described the incident as a suspected "murder-suicide" attempt.

The gunman, named as 53-year-old Cedric Anderson, had gained entry to the school as a visitor and kept his weapon concealed until he opened fire in the classroom where 15 children with special needs were being taught, authorities said.

He killed his wife Karen Elaine Smith and fatally wounded eight-year-old Jonathan Martinez, who was airlifted to hospital but later died.

A nine-year-old pupil remains in hospital in a stable condition, the Los Angeles Times reported.


But look on the bright side, only 3 dead in this one. You American jackals and your boomsticks.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

Lady Demura.................Believe me, it's easy to get to that point. show me a war where women and children were anything BUT collateral damage and if you think about it, it means the soldiers or whatever who did the deed had been trained to the point that that is how they felt. This is one of the reasons I wake up screaming and sweating in the night and think maybe I should go and find myself a place in the jungle along with the other brain twisted members of my fraternity. I won't escape my devils but at least I won't inflict them on others.