Washington Post
A man fatally shot
his ex-girlfriend and their 8-year-old daughter, wounded his mother
during a struggle and then killed himself at a Kentucky condominium
complex, police said Thursday.
The shooter, Gary Stewart Jr., had a history of making threats
against his former girlfriend and once had put a cocked gun to her head,
according to the woman’s petition for a protective order in 2010.
“I’m terrified he will seriously kill me to get me out of the
way,” Jillian Wood said in the petition. “I need him to have absolutely
no contact with me.”
The protective order required him to stay
away from her and was in effect from early 2010 until early February
this year. The order also had prohibited him from possessing a firearm.
Anyone who intentionally puts a cocked gun to another person's head deserves to go away for a long time upon conviction of assault with intent to kill. Stop coddling violent criminals, and there won't be a gun problem.
ReplyDeleteIt would be better to prevent guys like this from getting guns in the first place, but in order to do that you'd have to be invonvenienced in some minor ways. You won't hear of it, I know.
DeleteWhy can't you be honest? You know that your wishes are much more than minor inconveniences. But you keep trotting that phrase out, hoping that someone will believe you. Your "inconveniences" are all of those of the DMV, a parole board, and the IRS combined into one package.
DeleteYou tell us that it's child abuse to teach children to shoot, and then you want us to trust you when you say that you just want to inconvenience us a little bit? Right. Convincing.
DeleteTruly responsible and lawful gun owners would only be invonvenienced under the strictest regimen of gun control.
DeleteI thought your argument was that I really have a hidden agenda and strict gun control would only be a stepping stone to total civilian disarmament?
There's a valid case to be made for the possibility of a slippery slope on the issue, but what I'm saying right now is that if anyone believes that your bullet points of what you want for gun control are really all you want, they have another think coming. Sure, you'll just want to have may issue licensing and won't want to ban ownership, but you'll want to deny that license to anyone shown teaching a child to shoot an airsoft gun--after all, they're a child abuser in your mind.
DeleteWho knows what other interpretations you have that would make your bullet points far more restrictive than they seem upon first reading.
Mikeb, you're being disingenuous. You want a tribunal to review gun buyers. Said tribunal gets to decide yes or no. You want psychological exams for all gun owners. You want eye exams for all of us. You want safe storage laws that would require a safe bolted to the foundation. You want bans on many types of firearms and limits on magazine capacity. You want gun owners to be licensed and their guns registered. You want no ammunition to be owned that doesn't match up with a registered gun. You want limits on how many guns may be bought in a given period and waiting periods on taking possession of the gun. All of these things will cost money.
DeleteI'm sure that I've left something out. The fact that you call all of that and more a minor inconvenience is one of many examples of why we call you either crazy or a control freak.