Joe Holcombe, 86, mourning the loss of the generations he had raised. [View all]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/us/shooting-victims-texas.html

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. — One minute the Holcombes were a tight-knit family praying in the tiny church on Fourth Street.

The next, eight of them were gone.

Bryan and Karla Holcombe, a guest preacher and his wife, were dead.

Their son Marc Daniel Holcombe, gone. Their pregnant daughter-in-law, Crystal Holcombe, gone.

And four of their grandchildren — Noah, Emily, Megan and Greg — gone.

And the gunman nearly wiped out the Holcombe family, leaving Joe Holcombe, 86, Bryan’s father, to mourn the loss of the generations he had raised. “We know where they are now,” he said in an interview, his voice strained by exhaustion. “All of our family members, they’re all Christian. And it won’t be long until we’re with them.”

The day before, his daughter-in-law Crystal was at the county 4-H competition surrounded by her children, at least one of whom won an award, said Bob Baker, a Sutherland Springs resident who attended the event. A few days before that, Noah, 18 months, was bouncing on employees’ desks at her father’s office, digging into Halloween jack-o’-lanterns full of leftover candy.

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America needs to ban all guns that are not single-shot hunting rifles. Handgun ban. Assault rifle ban. Semiautomatic ban.

Single-shot hunting rifles only. Have as many as you want. But not other guns. We support hunters. Not people who want to kill other people. And if you own a whole lot of non-hunting guns, or you are anti-gun control -- you are part of the problem.