And here is a relatively recent murder suicide from 'bama involving gun violence

This is from a few months ago, but it isn't that old.  I post it here to raise awareness of the frequency with which these occur.

From MSNBC.com and 13.com:

UPDATE: Victims named in apparent murder-suicide involving cop

By: Shannon Delcambre , Hilary Golston | Alabama's13.com
Published: September 07, 2011

BIRMINGHAM - The Irondale Police Department reports a Birmingham police detective apparently shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself.
The corner's office says 41-year-old "Rodney Jerome Wilson" shot his 23-year old wife, "Uteva Monique Wilson" at their Irondale home this morning.
It happened about 3:00 a.m. CT Wednesday at the Enclave at Mountain Brook apartments. Irondale Police arrived in the 3,000 block of Sharpsburg Circle.
The IPD says the Birmingham officer worked as a burglary detective, and allegedly shot and killed his wife.
The Birmingham officer then called his dispatchers who in turn, called Irondale Police to say there had been an officer involved shooting.
Two children, a little boy and a little girl were at home during the shooting, but police report they stayed in their rooms.
Birmingham Police called Irondale Police to respond, and when they arrived, they found the Birmingham Officer dead from a gunshot wound.
The owner of a store near where Det. Wilson lived reported seeing the couple. Eric Walker says it appeared Wilson was chivalrous towards his wife and the couple didn’t appear to have trouble.
"He'd come in every morning before going to work. He'd come and get a Welch’s grape juice, sometimes he'd get a coffee,” Walker told Alabama 13’s Hilary Golston. “He seemed to me to be a mild mannered man.”
A nearby day care facility also confirmed to Golston that the facility took care of two small children. A woman at the daycare said Wilson did most of the talking when they came to pick up the kids and he paid. Besides that, she didn’t see any visible problems between the two.
Neighbors did tell us, off camera, that they had witnessed the couple having marital problems in the past.
Wilson had been with Birmingham Police for 10.5 years.

Hold people accountable for this kind of gun violence AFTER they're dead? Yeah, right.

That's too little, too damned late for all the people whose rights to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness are damaged by the people using guns, with access to guns, with too easy availability of guns.  It is way too damned late and it's way too damned little.  It is way too damned little weight that is given to the rights of the victims, and way too much weight given to the people with these guns to have them.  Holding them accountable after they've done the damage is NOT an acceptable or remotely reasonable response.

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.
Read original story on NBCChicago.com
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."