Deputies have cornered a man suspected in a shooting at a suburban Houston home that resulted in multiple fatalities.
Harris County Precinct 4 Assistant Chief Deputy Constable Mark Herman says the Wednesday evening shooting apparently arose from a breakup in the family who lived in the house. He says a woman who was wounded identified the gunman and warned that he planned to kill more people at another relative's home.
Authorities have not confirmed how many people died. However, Herman said a child died after being airlifted to a Houston hospital. Herman said the woman and child were the only victims still alive when deputies arrived.
Herman says deputies intercepted the suspect and cornered his car in a cul-de-sac about 3 miles from the shooting.
I was reading more details on this story and it's just too horrifying for words. Jesus F Christ. And this poor girl who survived being shot in the head and having her entire family slaughtered around her.
And nobody is asking how and where he got this gun? Because nobody cares. It's just something we're OK with in this country. I'm so tired of this. And more, I'm tired of people excusing shit like this away because freedom! Only black people do bad things with guns!
This was an act of domestic violence. This man had a history of violence and was willing to kill others, including children, in his fit of entitlement anger over his broken marriage. Once again, one of the biggest threats to the safety of a woman and her children was the man they were supposed to be able to trust.
I'm so very tired of male assholery. So very, very tired.
This was an act of domestic violence. This man had a history of violence and was willing to kill others, including children, in his fit of entitlement anger over his broken marriage. Once again, one of the biggest threats to the safety of a woman and her children was the man they were supposed to be able to trust.
I'm so very tired of male assholery. So very, very tired.
As much as I love to hop on the anti-gun wagon, in this case I don't think it was all about the weapon. Of course, the weapon made it easier for him but i think this was more about his violent personality.
Lisa long tonight was on guns. I didn't have enough alcohol in the house to watch it yet.
I caught the last half of this, it was very good. She focused on Philadelphia. While she did talk about how the laws (or lack of) made it very easy for guns to get into the wrong hands, most of the show actually centered around some serious grassroots efforts of mothers, police officers, and prior gang members who mentored other men and youth and tried to steer them onto a better path. It was horrifying, sad, and uplifting all at the same time.
This was an act of domestic violence. This man had a history of violence and was willing to kill others, including children, in his fit of entitlement anger over his broken marriage. Once again, one of the biggest threats to the safety of a woman and her children was the man they were supposed to be able to trust.
I'm so very tired of male assholery. So very, very tired.
As much as I love to hop on the anti-gun wagon, in this case I don't think it was all about the weapon. Of course, the weapon made it easier for him but i think this was more about his violent personality.
The cause was his violent personality and sense of entitlement, for sure. But without a gun, I do not believe he would have been able to kill an entire family like this. And I believe that having a gun helped embolden him to do it in the first place.
As much as I love to hop on the anti-gun wagon, in this case I don't think it was all about the weapon. Of course, the weapon made it easier for him but i think this was more about his violent personality.
The cause was his violent personality and sense of entitlement, for sure. But without a gun, I do not believe he would have been able to kill an entire family like this. And I believe that having a gun helped embolden him to do it in the first place.
Absolutely the gun made it 100x easier, particularly to kill so many. Mass stabbings are considerably more rare, that's for sure. Though we had one in Calgary recently.
And more, I'm tired of people excusing shit like this away because freedom! Only black people do bad things with guns!
Also, women are so emotional and they overreact to everything! We can't trust them to be President because they would start nuclear wars when they were PMSing!
The cause was his violent personality and sense of entitlement, for sure. But without a gun, I do not believe he would have been able to kill an entire family like this. And I believe that having a gun helped embolden him to do it in the first place.
Absolutely the gun made it 100x easier, particularly to kill so many. Mass stabbings are considerably more rare, that's for sure. Though we had one in Calgary recently.
I think it's not only the physical ease with which a gun allows you to kill many people, but also psychologically, there's a much greater sense of power that comes with holding a gun. There's also a significant psychological distance. To stab someone to death, you have to REALLY want that person dead. It's physically difficult to stab someone that hard, and you have to be touching them, right next to their face and body. You have to be determined to kill them. With a gun, you don't even have to come close enough to touch them and it requires no more effort than moving your finger. It makes killing easy physically and mentally.
No one has talked about the July 4th weekend shooting/killing spree in Chicago? A city with very stringent gun laws.
We've talked about Chicago at length before. We've also talked about stringent gun laws meaning nothing when the states that directly border you don't have stringent gun laws and there is no border control checking your trunk upon entry.
No one has talked about the July 4th weekend shooting/killing spree in Chicago? A city with very stringent gun laws.
How many times do we have to go over this? A city's stringent gun laws mean NOTHING if you can go down the street 15 minutes away to a place with extremely lax gun laws. Unless you're arguing that the city of Chicago is walled in and allows no or limited access to areas outside with different laws, this argument makes no sense whatsoever.
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This was an act of domestic violence. This man had a history of violence and was willing to kill others, including children, in his fit of entitlement anger over his broken marriage. Once again, one of the biggest threats to the safety of a woman and her children was the man they were supposed to be able to trust.
I'm so very tired of male assholery. So very, very tired.
And the larger society always blames the victim by asking why she didn't just leave her abusive partner. Women don't leave because shit like this is what happens when they do.
This man is obviously mentally ill. That justifies NONE of what he's done of course. The fact that he had such easy access to any sort of gun is unbelieveable.
And the girl that survived. Wow. I hope she has a huge support network. So heartbreaking.
This man is obviously mentally ill. That justifies NONE of what he's done of course. The fact that he had such easy access to any sort of gun is unbelieveable.
And the girl that survived. Wow. I hope she has a huge support network. So heartbreaking.
I think calling him "mentally ill" prematurely lets him off the hook. A great number of domestic abusers are not mentally ill.
This man is obviously mentally ill. That justifies NONE of what he's done of course. The fact that he had such easy access to any sort of gun is unbelieveable.
And the girl that survived. Wow. I hope she has a huge support network. So heartbreaking.
I think calling him "mentally ill" prematurely lets him off the hook. A great number of domestic abusers are not mentally ill.
Then every guilty person in prison should just be sent to a psychiatric institution instead.
There are plenty of murderers who are healthy but still depraved. "Healthy" and "moral" aren't synonyms.
I never said all persons in prison should be sent to a psychiatric institution, although I'm sure many/most of them would benefit from psychatric care. I *do* think what drives most criminals has to do with some sort of mental incapacity.
I agree that anger is not a mental illness, although anger is a sign or "symptom" of mental illness. Same for violence.
ok. So he's just crazy. They're all just crazy, and there's nothing we can do to control crazy. Awesome.
:/
Why is it all or nothing? No, IMO, there is nothing we can do about people who snap or WHATEVER you want to call it except hope they don't do anything henious.
You can't force someone to seek treatment if they don't want it.
Once again, I never said being mentally ill justified any criminal actions.
Back to the actual news article - dude had ALLLLLL kinds of history of violent actions. He shouldn't have been allowed access to a firearm. That was basically my entire point.