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June 26, 2016 - Christy Sheats, 42, shot and killed her two young daughters, Taylor, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17, on what neighbors said was their father’s birthday, according to local reports. A family spat started inside the married couple’s Houston-area home and spiraled into gun violence that spilled out onto their street.

"It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away," Sheats wrote in March on her Facebook page, "but that's exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns."

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Update: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/30/she-wanted-him-to-suffer-sheriff-explains-why-texas-mom-two-killed-daughters-in-front-of-husband/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na

"After years of challenges with Christy’s mental health, her struggles with depression and anxiety, her suicide attempts, Jason told authorities that he thought perhaps she was going to announce she had decided to file for divorce. The couple had talked about separating. But instead, police said, the 42-year-old mother pulled out a .38 caliber handgun, a gift from her late grandfather, and pointed it at her screaming children. Then she shot them, inside the house and out in the street, where the girls collapsed and stopped moving. When law enforcement arrived, they watched Christy fire a final bullet into her eldest daughter, then a police officer shot the mother dead."

This story is a perfect example of why there should be firearm registration and annual safety checks.  The mom obtained her gun legally as a gift from her grandfather.  But then over the later years, she developed severe mental health issues.  But no one from the government was able to connect those two facts, and it was impossible to follow up because there was no record she had this gun.  If the gun had been registered, or if there'd been an annual re-licensing requirement, then the shooter would have been separated from the gun years before this tragic incident.

Surely we all can agree this woman should not have had a gun.  No one's trying to take guns away from safe owners.  But there can be easy steps put in place to keep guns away from people who should not have guns.  Why can't we take some commonsense steps to make us all safer, and keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill?[/quote]

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