6 dead. Father shoots 5 kids and self in Washington state

[Liberal_in_LA]

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjXzF8BSXFLpOFfc6psDn9i9AEKwD97C8MVO0

Murder of 5 children shocks Wash. trailer park

By PHUONG LE – 1 hour ago

GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) — A quiet mobile home park nestled among towering evergreens reeled Sunday in the aftermath of an unthinkable crime: five children slain in their own home, apparently by their father, who took his own life with a gunshot miles away.

"How could something like this happen?" asked Mary Ripplinger, whose kids were playmates of the slain children. "Everyone's asking: Why did he do it? It's not right."

A relative visiting the family's doublewide trailer at the Deer Run mobile home park Saturday couldn't get anyone to answer the door but through a window glimpsed a child lying motionless on a bed.

Pierce County deputies called to the home 15 miles southeast of Tacoma were confronted with a horror: four children murdered in their beds and the fifth slain in the bathroom. The four girls and the youngest child, a 7-year-old boy, apparently had been shot to death.

"This was not a tragedy. It was a rotten murder," Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor said. "This appears to be the terrible work of the biological father. If that doesn't break your heart, I don't know what does."

[Teaser]

1. If these fucks want to kill themselves

I wish they could just get it done and leave everyone else out of it. ugh.

[adamuu]

7. that's the most selfish part. yeah. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

2. This is starting to feel like an epidemic

[blue sky at night]

5. starting........

gun violence is more American than apple pie ever was or will be. Gun Violence, its like the sunrise....and sunset, it will always be.

[geckosfeet]

3. Shoobee doo shoobee doo we need more guns, we need more guns.

Guns for self defense so the sane people in this world can stop these people in their tracks. Shoobee doo shoobee doo we need more guns, we need more guns.:crazy:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjXzF8BSXFLpOFfc6psDn9i9AEKwD97C8MVO0
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7260912&page=1
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/04/05/2009-04-05_binghamton_gunman_had_body_armor_ammo_bu.html

[Mamacrat]

4. He's still find a way.

Even if he didn't have a gun he'd still find a way to kill his family and himself if that's what he wanted to do. He'd probably stab them in their sleep.

[WI_DEM]

6. Keep saying "guns don't kill--people do" over and over and maybe the victims of

(too easy to attain) gun violence will come back to life!