I am glad he got caught now let’s hope they keep him in jail and the judge do not end saying “well, he has not killed anyone, he just raped some women and wrote something on a notebook about killing females, I bet he has a brilliant future as a fictional writer...”
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This is exactly the point! Guns make everything in a family more dangerous—they dramatically increase this risk of domestic murders, suicide, family violence of all kinds. And quite honestly, I'm not sure I'd really want to shoot some kid who broke into my house to steal my TV. It's not worth it.
Yes, we can apply it to a lot of things. “Everyone is a responsible banana eater until suddenly they aren’t.”
Everyone is a responsible gun owner until, you know, suddenly they aren’t.
the gun Sheats used to kill her daughters was a “family heirloom,” inherited from her great-grandfather to protect her family. Her daughters will be buried this week in Alabama.
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