Another Crime of Passion, Another Crime of Impulse, Another Murder / Suicide Mass Shooting

I is well established that guns are the method used most often in murder suicide, and that the availability, the lethality of the weapon, the 'instrumentality' is a key factor in these deaths occurring.  When there are fewer means available, when there are less lethal means of action available, people are more likely to be delayed, and the delays are more likely to result in the impulses passing, without a murder/suicide resulting from the impulse of despair and anger.

There are so very many more deaths and injuries from THIS kind of use of guns than any benefit from self-defensive use of firearms, that we need to take a long hard look at how we regulate guns, and we need to do a better job of limiting guns effectively.  These deaths are significantly preventable, avoidable.

How? By having fewer guns available to people to use in this way.  We need to stop giving preferential treatment to gun owners and carriers, and respect the right NOT to be their victims, their right not to be made unsafe.  These murder suicides occur EVERY WEEK, killing and injuring and threatening multiple people in each case. 

Legitimate defensive gun use does not.

From MSNBC.com :

Police: Illinois killer of 4 left note before suicide

By NBCChicago.com and msnbc.com staff

CHICAGO -- A 42-year-old man gunned down his girlfriend, her two sons and a niece as they slept in their beds early Tuesday before setting their home ablaze and driving to his father's home, where he killed himself, officials said.
The body of Cedric Anderson was found in an apartment in Dolton, hours after a fire ravaged a home near Villa Park, said Tom Ahern, spokesman for the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency.
The victims were: Ursula Nailor, 37; her sons, Darnell Holt, 16, and Dan Nailor, 13; and her 19-year-old niece, Dominique Robinson.
Ahern told the Chicago Sun-Times Anderson left a suicide note saying he was distraught, but did not claim responsibility for the killings.
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According to Cook County court records, Anderson had a lengthy criminal record and was waiting for his sentencing in March on a drug offense, The Chicago Tribune reported.
Neighbor Myron Bendara told NBCChicago.com that Nailor and the children had lived in the home for about three years.
"When I walked out this morning all I saw was billowing smoke out of the structure. There was no flames of any kind that I could see," he said.
The fire was contained in the house with only broken windows and a hole in the roof visible from outside.
DuPage County officials investigating the fire sent in accelerant-sniffing dogs to look for gas or kerosene that may have spread the fire more quickly throughout the home.
Nailor’s boss, Ed Peterson, told NBCChicago.com he started to get worried when Nailor failed to show up for her job as a school bus driver. She had worked for his company, Falcon Transportation, driving Chicago schoolkids from Newberry and Brown schools since 2006.
She was an exemplary worker and mom, he said.
"She talked about her teenage boys all the time," he said. "It’s a tragedy."