Another day another slaughter -4 children among 6 killed in Houston-area shooting rampage

[malaise]

SPRING, Texas — A father who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at a suburban Houston home, killing four of his children and two adults and wounding his 15-year-old daughter critically, has surrendered after a standoff and is in custody, police said.

Gilliland described the dead as two boys, ages 4 and 14; two girls, ages 7 and 9; a 39-year-old man; and a 33-year-old woman. The gunman and his wife are estranged, and she lives out of state, he said. All of the children were theirs, while two were adopted.

Gilliland said the wounded daughter identified her father as the gunman. After a brief chase, the man held deputies at bay for three hours before he surrendered.

The teenager was able to call 911 and later warned deputies that her father planned to go to her grandparents’ home to kill them, Gilliland said.

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/07/09/3742343/gunman-at-large-after-shooting.html#storylink=cpy
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[shenmue]

1. ...

[delrem]

2. Somehow, for some reason, I think the US should think about regulating gun use. nt

[malaise]

5. +1,000

and remember US guns are responsible for the mess in Central America and now on the US border.

[Ferretherder]

7. COMMYOUNIST!1! GAY PERSON!11! CUTE CAT PICTURE POSTER11!!11!!

YULE PRY MAH GUNS FRUM MAH COLD DED HANDS YOU FASHIST MARKSIST BOODIST BASTURD!1!111!!!11!11!

..........just in case.

[heaven05]

11. exactly

[aikoaiko]

3. Demented family annihilators. Texas knows how to serve justice to them.

[malaise]

4. Just saw on TV that the children lived with the couple he also killed

(a relative of their mom). The only surviving child said he was heading for the grandparents.

The words that hit me from the article - he was as cool as a cucumber. Indeed cowards with guns are always cool.

[Dustlawyer]

6. Chicken shit should have shot off his own head like he threatened to do!

Funny how their nerve always seems to run out when it finally gets to themselves!

[Lurker Deluxe]

9. A couple of miles away from me

Fuck him.

Glad he lived through it.

May the rest of his life be miserable, as short as it will be.

[raccoon]

8. Well, if the kids had been packing, they could've defended themselves.

Need I add

Just another day....

[heaven05]

10. 9 dead in chicago last weekend

6 yesterday, here. Will it ever stop? No. Too many guns to confiscate, no laws to govern who owns the guns and many, many illegal weapons on the underground market(s). Newtown, Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech.......... and on and on it goes and where it stops??? probably never will, to be totally realistic. Not saying we should stop trying to get lethal weapons out of civilian society. Then maybe the word 'civil' will take hold. Maybe???? Naw. Too much to hope for in this violent, cruel country/world. That man they captured, he was a coward with a gun.