Until he wasn’t:
Shane Franklin Miller allegedly shot his 34-year-old wife Sandy and daughters Shelby, eight, and 4-year-old Shasta on Tuesday in Shingletown, 230 miles (370 km) north of San Francisco.
“Miller is considered armed and dangerous, possibly having access to a cache of weapons,” said Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, adding that they were pursuing leads in northern California, while declaring a nationwide manhunt.
What comment can I offer? You tell me.
Freedom.
You forgot…..Liberty!
Free-DUMB. You have to emphasize the second syllable. It’s not only how they say it, but it’s perfectly accurate.
took his kids out of school a couple of weeks before to “homeschool” them.
I hope the police are guarding that school. God knows what set this guy off.
School went into lock down.
Then there is this:
I suppose this is where I could sarcastically comment that the 4-year-old should have been armed.
But I’m too tired of this.
Don’t miss this responsible gun owner. What good is a gun locked in a gun case? You can’t defend yourself from a home invasion that way!
Three year old fatally shoots self (Yep, another one)
We have a huge cultural problem in this country, and it seems to involve mainly men. And mythologies of persecution.
And do we know what else was going on with this guy?
Oh, yes, and we have two political problems to deal with: gun lobbies and austerity peacocks. The one represents the supply; the other bumps up the demand.
“Miller is considered armed and dangerous, possibly having access to a cache of weapons,” …
Like Lays Potato Chips, you can’t have just one. They always seem to have many guns.
The number of US households with guns has actually declined from 20 and 40 years ago, but the overall number of guns sold is way up – meaning fewer people are buying more (and more lethal) guns. Kind of absurd, since you can only fire one at a time.
Somewhere, as we speak, some gun fetish web site is weeping for poor Mr. Miller, because the evil tyrannical state is trying very hard to take away his guns.
This perfectly illustrates the actual problem, which is never addressed—the gun nut is perfectly fine, until he isn’t. Then a bunch of people (usually the gun nut’s family, girlfriend or co-workers) get killed (by multiple gunshots) in short order.
People can develop serious mental illnesses over time, duh. They can become enraged over life’s adversities and inequities. For all we know, white male gun nuts may develop out of control rages more readily than others as a result of personality traits they enhance and celebrate via enthusiastic daily consumption of rightwing sewage and paranoiac lies. We already know that authoritarian “conservatism” is a personality type.
It can’t be said enough—if you are involved with a (currently) “law abiding” gun nut, you have already increased your chance of being shot to death at some time in your life. Of course, breaking up with the gun nut has its own problems. A responsible gub’mint would be trying to develop statistics on gun nut behavior and determine if public warnings (ala cigarettes) are needed. Proceed with caution with the male gun nut. Get in too deep and no one will help you or your kids, certainly not our worthless and paralyzed gub’mint. But Freedum, of course…