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Yes Again. And Again. (the images from his facebook page are beyond disturbing)
Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe
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Nothing funny to say. The boys were three and four years old when their dad killed them.
In what would, in a sane nation, be a national outrage, a responsible lover of the Second Amendment murdered his two little boys, aged three and four, before turning the gun on himself and not quite managing to commit suicide. In a sane nation, there might also be something shocking about this being the second time since December that a vocal open-carry advocate has shot family members to death. But we live in America, so its just one more story that well read, shake our heads at, and perhaps wonder if its ever going to be time to talk about guns.
No. It is never going to be time to talk about guns. They are our national fetish item. They are America. If you speak ill of guns youre a fool, a Nazi, a tool of the government that wants to take all the guns away, or worse, far worse, a wimp. Also youre pretty ghoulish to politicize the tragic deaths of two little boys too young to have even started kindergarten, for Christs sake by turning their deaths into fodder for yet another ineffectual call for maybe some common sense talk about guns. Because freedom isnt free, and a man needs a gun to protect his family. Wholl protect his family from the man with the gun? Shut up, you gun-grabber. Youre just playing to emotions instead of recognizing the fact that guns save lives. Except when they dont.
Lets back up and get at the details: The boys, Josiah Fuller, 3, and Uriah Fuller, 4, were shot to death at around 3 in the morning by their father, Shawn Fuller, 31, in Statesville, North Carolina, following a domestic disturbance from which Fullers wife, whose name hasnt been released, escaped. According to a neighbor, Fuller regularly fired guns at milk jugs, cans, and trees in his backyard, often while drinking alcohol. The call to the Iredell County Sheriffs office reported a domestic incident at the home; the caller said a man at the home was firing a gun and was intoxicated. A report released Monday by the sheriffs office said that after shooting his kids, Fuller had been on the phone with an unidentified person who said that Fuller had admitted shooting his sons and had also threatened to kill law enforcement officers, but by the time they arrived, Fuller had shot himself. Hes currently in critical condition at a hospital.
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The afternoon before the shootings, Fuller had taken Uriah and Josiah shopping, with his gun strapped to his waist, as was apparently his habit. He made a point of telling the clerk at the store that he wouldnt shop anywhere he couldnt bring his gun, according to another shopper, Kelli Simko, who played with the boys while Fuller shopped for something for his wife. He apparently made several comments about the need to carry a gun at all times, and also mentioned that hed enrolled his boys in self-defense classed because of what a wicked world we live in today. He said how you cant even walk into a movie theater anymore, she said.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/592820/open-carry-dude-assaults-wife-kills-two-sons-keeps-second-amendment-safe#l8EfP3yjiKaRiwOH.99
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)They kill 30,000 a year, injure another 100,000 and cost the economy $200-250 Billion a year.
When are we as a nation gonna' wake up?
niyad
(119,939 posts)dhill926
(16,953 posts)this country is absolutely insane.....
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)someone who is afraid and saw too much stuff. Poor little angels.
erronis
(16,860 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)niyad
(119,939 posts)brer cat
(26,280 posts)I am just out of words to say. Over and over and over we go down the raging river, over the falls, into the abyss.
niyad
(119,939 posts)brer cat
(26,280 posts)I would dig for a few words to share.
niyad
(119,939 posts)brer cat
(26,280 posts)We need you here so don't go there.
niyad
(119,939 posts)by the way, love your gif. my kittehs used to do exactly that.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)not happy. RIP...to the Great Mother/Father who will take care of you.
sarge43
(29,155 posts)Peaceful passage, Lambs.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)If those two kids were carrying, none of this would have happened. Where are the good kids with guns to stop the bad guy with guns?
It isn't the gun. The gun is just a tool. Hooray, ego boosters for self-loathing XY chromosome having human beings.
Skittles
(159,374 posts)dead kids are just collateral damage but penis jokes are offensive
erronis
(16,860 posts)There is no level so low that they won't go.
niyad
(119,939 posts)calimary
(84,332 posts)I once interviewed the manager of a gun range and he told me that.
Roland99
(53,345 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)Skittles
(159,374 posts)how guns REALLY have nothing to do with this
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)niyad
(119,939 posts)niyad
(119,939 posts)calimary
(84,332 posts)I just get tired of fighting with them, arguing with them, and trying to bring some sense into the argument. But by God that Almighty Holy Goddamn Sacrosanct You-Can't-Touch-This Second Fucking Amendment just can't even be LOOKED AT to see if we need to update it or change it or amend it further to reflect changing times.
Skittles
(159,374 posts)I'd hate to think anyone consistently pimps like that for free
pansypoo53219
(21,724 posts)I am so sick of this shit. The fucking gun fetishists, constantly masturbating their damn guns and insisting they HAVE A RIGHT, GODDAMMIT. Well, the rest of us have rights not to be confronted by and angry idiot carrying a fucking assault weapon in the fucking CVS.
Jesus.
And once again, since it's domestic violence, no one pays much attention.
drm604
(16,230 posts)are the last people we should want carrying guns.
Someone that scared of everyone around them becomes a menace when armed.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)If the boys had been armed, they could have defended themselves against their father. The answer to a bad dad with a gun is toddlers with guns.