I hope to go back someday.

How tragic.

What was it that drove him to such a horrible act?

May they rest in peace.

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Beautiful girls. I wish someone had seen this man's pain, or that he'd had the courage to confront it instead of letting it run roughshod on his life and that of his children.

Really

Accountable

I was trying to figure out why the NRA is responsible for this tragic murder/suicide?

i thought you probably did know - and I had missed your point. Oh well.

Gotta go take care of our livestock and do the daily farm chores.
Have a great day.

of exemplary service would have NEVER been allowed to own a gun.

I'm no fan of the NRA, but you might as well blame Bush or Obama for this one. They have as much to do with it as the NRA.

The article at the full URL:

of NYC
My heart goes out to the family and town.

I cannot understate this.

My god, I pray for their mother.

to that shocked family.

Unfathomable. Except for the part about a gun... and tragedy.

I sort of get suicide. I can somewhat understand being in such despair you kill yourself. But killing others along the way, I don't get. Do yourself in, that's more or less okay, but don't take anyone with you.

and given a chance to relive my life I would have tried to immigrate to another not so gun happy country when I left the war.
So sad that we have to think we have to have all these guns out there. I know hunters and I can see how it is necessary to have a gun to get the game, that many don't even eat anyway. Cast in point. My brother has 483 more or less acres of land and its not unusual to find dead dear where someone killed it and let it lay during deer hunting season. Some the shots are so well placed that the deer didn't run away after being hit but rather dropped dead on the spot. Fuck a bunch of guns.

My wife and I had a discussion recently about arming ourselves with a shot gun for protection but when it came time to actually do it neither of us would. I'm damn near 67 years old and spent 15 months in the 'Nam war and I've owned exactly one gun in all these years. I kept it for a few days then gave it back to my friend who I bought it from. It felt so weird in my hands that I couldn't live with the thought of keeping it. Thats been 40 some odd years ago btw.

Maybe if the little girls were armed this wouldn't have happened, for those who can't see this sentence for what it is I give you

Not a civilian with firearms?

Not that the post you replied to was about that.

Please get some help.

And my opinion about my state of mind is all that counts.

Surprised nobody mentioned the statues of the Nativity in the background/left.

My heart goes out to the girls and teh rest of the family. This is incomprehensibly horrific.

I do have to ask though ... if there was no gun in teh house, would he have done this?

The gun really had nothing to do with his decision to kill his 2 beautiful daughters and himself.

I've never really understood someone killing themselves, unless it's because of a terminal medical condition, my contention is that if you've sunk that low, you might as well stick around, things can only get better from that point on.

...that some posters just make this board suck at times. I'm equally sure we disagree on who they are.

Isn't it great that we can have opinions here?

so that you can kill them both before one can warn the other would not be easy. And psychologically, being proficient at killing someone with a knife etc. is hard to be, because it's so intimate. Doing it to your own almost grown-up daughters who you've known as personalities for years, and who, I presume, have never done anything significant to emotionally hurt him, would be almost unheard of, in someone who was seemingly balanced enough to be a police officer until recently.

Killing a relative with a gun is just as personal as killing one with a knife, axe, hatchet, whatever.
This man had reached such a low point in his life, he was determined, for whatever reason, to kill himself and those close to him and it wouldn't have mattered the instrument used.

R.I.P. to all of them.

usually there is some sign that something is wrong.