...reading this...
DALLAS — Dallas police say two boys talked their stepfather into letting them live after he allegedly killed their mother and 6-year-old sister.
Gary Green is charged with capital murder and remained jailed Wednesday on $1 million bail. No attorney was listed, in electronic records at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, for Green.
Police documents indicate Green had showed the boys, ages 9 and 12, the two bodies. The younger boy was stabbed, allegedly by Green, and was treated at a hospital.
and this...
BEASON, Ill. — Residents of a tiny central Illinois farming town where three children and their parents were slain in their home anxiously awaited any word to settle their nerves after authorities warned them to lock their doors and be alert.
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Authorities discovered the bodies at the family's ranch-style house Monday afternoon after responding to a 911 call about possible shots fired at the address, Nichols said. He did not say why authorities did not notify the public until Tuesday, then advised them to secure their homes.
I had to say, isn't that ass-backwards? At least if one follows the logic of the authoritarian control freaks always clamoring for tighter gun laws. Five slain with a gun, perhaps, in a state with some of the most onerous gun laws in the country, and three slain with a knife in a state lambasted by many of said control freaks as one with a "Wild West" mentality because of the comparatively lenient laws. One would almost think those advocating more stringent gun laws had no clue as to what they were talking about, that the critical thing here was the person instead of the tool. But maybe that's just me.
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