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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he did not legally have a hand gun, he easily could have gotten one or used another method.  You are focusing on the wrong thing.  We need better mental health, substance abuse treatment.  And not for this family but we need better access to things like affordable health care, QUALITY health care, housing, food and jobs.[/quote]

we need all of that, but it's also well-proven that access to guns makes murder and suicide more effective and frequent. [/quote]

I don't disagree with more restrictions but saying that is the primary cause is not.  This was a contentious divorce, probably lawyers made it worse as well a the court system and depending on if there was a DV or mental health background, he was probably looking at getting his kids every other weekend/maybe a night a week and basically losing his kids and his entire life as the courts are set up to benefit women depending on the state and judge.  We don't know anything but simply put, this isn't a gun issue and its a society issue.  Mental health treatment and many other things would have greatly helped.[/quote]

No, this is very much an asshole-with-a-gun issue. No gun, no impulsive murder-suicide.  [/quote]

There are plenty of ways to do the same thing without a gun.  Or, you just get it illegally.  This is a people issue.[/quote]

Yet guns are far more lethal than say, a knife.   A crazy guy went after a pack of kids in Japan a few weeks back and killed 1 kid.  If you added a gun to that equation (guns are rare in Japan), a classroom full of kids would have been dead.   It takes much longer/more physical power to knife someone to death.

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And you say this from personal experience in committing homicide?[/quote]

You just proved that you can't be reasoned with. -NP[/quote]

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