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    BusPassTrollop curls up and diesAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:04pm

    Everyone is a responsible gun owner until, you know, suddenly they aren’t.

    ALSO, hot damn this woman could not look any more Texas if she tried.

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      kattahnBusPassTrollop curls up and dies
      6/29/16 12:06pm

      Out of curiosity, what % of gun owners do you think end up doing stuff like this? Because if your logic is “everyone is safe with ______ until they’re not”, then we can apply that to a lot of different things.

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      BusPassTrollop curls up and dieskattahn
      6/29/16 12:07pm

      Yes, we can apply it to a lot of things. “Everyone is a responsible banana eater until suddenly they aren’t.”

      I’m going to regret responding to your dumbass flawed argument, but oh well.

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    HarvestMoonAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:12pm

    In their final moments on earth, these poor girls were fully aware that their own mother was going to blow them away just to spite their father. On his birthday.

    I hope there is a heaven. And I really hope there is a hell.

    As dad is now in hell on earth.

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      Ladyheatherlee 2016 EditionHarvestMoon
      6/29/16 12:15pm

      Cant even wrap my mind around those last moments. :(

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      HarvestMoonLadyheatherlee 2016 Edition
      6/29/16 12:17pm

      And watching as mom re-loaded to come back and finish them off?

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    TheBurnersMyDestinationAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:04pm

    the gun Sheats used to kill her daughters was a “family heirloom,” inherited from her great-grandfather to protect her family. Her daughters will be buried this week in Alabama.

    Fuck. I mean, just....fuck. It is really time in this country that people understand that having a gun in the house “just in case” can be a dangerous thing. It isn’t like having a treadmill that you never use- they are dangerous, they make accidents more dangerous, they made domestic abuse more dangerous, and they make split-second choices more dangerous.

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      Marzipan in your Pie PlateTheBurnersMyDestination
      6/29/16 12:13pm

      They make suicide more dangerous. Suicidal people are more likely to try and go through with it if there is a gun in the house.

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      TheWiseSerpent2TheBurnersMyDestination
      6/29/16 12:14pm

      This is exactly the point! Guns make everything in a family more dangerous—they dramatically increase this risk of domestic murders, suicide, family violence of all kinds. And quite honestly, I'm not sure I'd really want to shoot some kid who broke into my house to steal my TV. It's not worth it.

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    JezebelEchoChamberAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:06pm

    “Christy was toxic for the family. She was mentally unstable.”

    Sure, obviously. But the husband taunted her to just shoot herself, just make it easy on all of us? Sounds like a real stable winner.

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      FirebrandJezebelEchoChamber
      6/29/16 12:11pm

      Meh. Saying something ugly and regrettable in the heat of the moment kind of pales in comparison to murdering your children.

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      HuckleberryGinJezebelEchoChamber
      6/29/16 12:13pm

      I’m not defending the husband. He should not have said that. But my mother is very unstable, and, while I would never say something like that to her, I get it. Our family has suffered so much at her hands. I love her tremendously, and I would do anything for her. But it is so hard.

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    rslwnAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:02pm

    This is the thing: the NRA members, the gun rights activists, never seem to understand that they’re only a good guy with a gun until they’re a bad guy with a gun. YES, YES, WE WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY, BECAUSE YOU MIGHT USE THEM TO KILL PEOPLE, YOUNG CHILDREN, MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, WHOEVER.

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      DashleyinCalirslwn
      6/29/16 12:14pm
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      bitemekinjaDashleyinCali
      6/29/16 12:22pm

      Anyone that brags about the number of guns they have should not be allowed to own guns.

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    pesto nexto mybedAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:12pm

    Dad’s birthday. Everything about this is fucked. How many people are now grieving because this woman, with acknowledged mental issues, was able to get a gun. Jesus Christ, I need to go lay in a field of wildflowers.

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      SuperSquishypesto nexto mybed
      6/29/16 12:16pm

      Field of puppies please.

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      NomNom83pesto nexto mybed
      6/29/16 12:16pm

      As an inherited item, I don’t often see this touched on in gun debates but imagine in another generation or two how the current run on guns will affect the population. Yikes.

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    imaginaryfriendAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:16pm

    “This is about punishing you”

    wtf, lady, couldn’t u have just videoed urself banging his 2 best friends at once and shown it to him?

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      PeterMimaginaryfriend
      6/29/16 12:30pm

      But then Gawker would’ve shown the video and got sued again.

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      imaginaryfriendPeterM
      6/29/16 2:49pm

      kids would still be alive, tho

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    nadaforgretchenweinersAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:07pm

    God, how absolutely tragic for those girls and the rest of the family. Granted, I’m not a fan of the dad encouraging mom to ‘kill herself’ to make it easier on the family, but that’s another topic for another day.

    I’ve been thinking a lot about gun ownership and I think there are some privilege (both white and male) that come into owing a gun. I think because as woman I have a different relationship with guns as I am most likely to be at the end of one. This isn’t a blanket statement over white folks, but the majority of people in my life that advocate for no gun control are white (or dudes or both). Their relationship with guns is vastly different than a person of color, because once again we will most likely be at the end of a gun not behind it. A good guy with a gun is most often seen as a white guy with a gun, where as a black guy with gun is seen as thug, a muslim:terrorist, a brown latino: gangster.

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      Mental Icebergnadaforgretchenweiners
      6/29/16 12:15pm

      I’ve been thinking, also, a lot about gun ownership.

      I am a white woman, but I come from a family who are big into guns. I grew up with them. Very responsible gun owning family, they look at them more like “collector” items. And yes, that includes one member who has an AR 15.

      I tried talking to my pretty liberal son about gun control after the Orlando shooting, specifically AR 15s. He’s in the military, and he shut me down in about 2 minutes. Go figure....military.

      I come from a very right wing conservative family, and I would be considered even more blasphemous than I already am if I even brought up the subject of gun control :(

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      ElZopilotenadaforgretchenweiners
      6/29/16 12:24pm

      I read the “kill yourself” comment as having been said when she’d already pulled the gun. Still pretty insensitive but it kind of sounds like he said it in a last attempt to avoid a massacre.

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    HarvestMoonAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:13pm

    Mental Illness + Guns.

    So deadly, so often.

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      iElvis is Now Funded by Peter ThielHarvestMoon
      6/29/16 12:17pm

      “I always knew something would happen, but I never thought she would do this. Christy was toxic for the family. She was mentally unstable,” she added.

      But, yeah, no one apparently thought it might be appropriate to take away her gun. Because Texas.

      And I say that as someone who lived there for 8 years.

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      HarvestMooniElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      6/29/16 12:21pm

      The police hat been dispatched to this home three times for suicide attempts. And they keep the guns?

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    DorothyParkersSmartMouthAnna Merlan
    6/29/16 12:51pm

    The more that comes out about this shooting, the sicker I feel. My mom has a lifetime of untreated Borderline Personality Disorder, and she also has a concealed carry license (because Florida). She has pulled the gun on my father before (who refused to call the police, because he didn’t think she’d really shoot him). We were home visiting my father for his birthday in April, and because of some imagined sleight, were told by my mom that we were not welcome in the house. Fine, we stayed in a hotel, and had a lovely time with my dad. On our last day there, before going to the airport, she demanded a “family meeting.” I have never been so on edge in my life (and the same with my sister), because unlike our father, we’re not so sure she wouldn’t do something like this (the “meeting” was for her to insanely rant about her paranoid, fictitious list of wrongs against her by everyone from us to her dentist). There are, so far, no solutions. Until she actively threatens another person’s life (or threatens to take her own, but that won’t happen because there’s a massive narcissism overlap with the BPD), there’s literally nothing that can be done. Everything about this makes me want to puke, and I feel excruciatingly sorry for the husband/father.

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      Marzipan in your Pie PlateDorothyParkersSmartMouth
      6/29/16 1:13pm

      Jesus. Not to be flippant, but I bet you’ll think twice before you attend another one of her “family meetings.” I really hope she gets help and that you and your family stay safe.

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      DorothyParkersSmartMouthMarzipan in your Pie Plate
      6/29/16 1:19pm

      She won’t ever get help. One of the worst things about somebody with BPD is that (the overwhelming majority of them) refuse to accept there’s anything wrong with them. Total victim complex, and toxic almost beyond comprehension. We continue to try to think of ways to get my dad away from her so he can live his remaining years with some semblance of peace, but so far nothing (they’re both in their 70s now—this has been a life-long nightmare).

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