Florida sheriff: Man guns down 3 daughters, wife, himself in ‘everyday USA’ mass killing
Source: Raw Story
Police in Florida believe a San Carlos Park man fatally shot his three children, his wife and then turned the gun on himself over the weekend.
Lee Sheriff Mike Scott told the Naples Daily News that 36-year-old Sonny Enrique Quique Medina left a note before shooting 29-year-old Maria Antonia Navas, 10-year-old Allison Navas, 6-year-old Sophia Medina-Navas, and 2-year-old Mia Medina-Navas early Sunday morning. Scott declined to reveal the contents of the note due to an ongoing investigation.
Scott called the incident the single-largest mass shooting in Lee County history.
This is everyday USA behind me, Scott said on Sunday as he was standing front of the crime scene. Something snapped, something went terribly wrong. And well never know the answer to why.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/09/florida-sheriff-man-guns-down-3-daughters-wife-himself-in-everyday-usa-mass-killing/
zonkers
(5,865 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)until then nothing.
samsingh
(17,602 posts)how can the gun lovers still worship their precious
billh58
(6,635 posts)gun nuts -- another exception to the rule. Entire families are routinely drowned in swimming pools, or killed by Nuns on motorcycles with knives. Nothing to see here -- move along.
Sincere condolences to the surviving members of this American family.
reflection
(6,286 posts)Aristus
(66,509 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Doesn't it strike you as odd that the U.S. has simultaneously
1. Highest per capita incarceration rate
2. Most violent developed nation in terms of violent crimes, murders, etc.
3. Most "religious" developed nation
So if so many Americans are "good Xtians" and have all those family values, why are we the most violent and have the most inmates? It seems the fact we are allegedly so religious would have a direct impact on the level of violence and incarceration. But it isn't.
Why? Because the predominant religious organizations in this country aren't very moral or care about the plight of God's children. The Baptist church, the Mormon church and the Catholic church are most focused on abortion and keeping the gays down than the things Jesus actually talked about.
I'm not saying this is universally the case but in large measure this is how I see it. Frankie in Rome has recently come out with a different message that includes focusing on poverty, inequality and subduing the entire focus on abortion and the gays. There are some individual churches that have given refuge to immigrants. There are Catholic nuns who stand vigil outside state prisons where executions are taking place.
But these voices are overwhelmed by the anti-abortion and anti-gay rhetoric. There is little talk about poverty, the need to provide access to health care, the need to care for our planet, opposition to the death penalty, opposition to police brutality, opposition to endless war. Where are those voices?
Just this morning on NPR I heard a pastor in Cornelia Georgia where an infant was violently injured by a flash grenade that was thrown into his crib as part of a no knock warrant action by county authorities say he resented the influx of people from outside of Cornelia coming to town last weekend to protest against no knock warrant actions. He said he was defending the local sheriff's actions and that outsiders should just let Cornelia do what Cornelia wants to do.
Really? A pastor is saying it is consistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ to burn a baby and cause life-threatening injuries that may well either kill the infant or leave him with burn scars and potential blindness and other infirmities because they thought there might be drugs inside? Really? This pastor is no more a man of God than Satan himself. He is a right-wing tool who should be banished from ministry for the rest of his life.
IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)Skittles
(153,261 posts)they're sick
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and I have never even owned a gun that shoots bullets, but I am still offended by the stupid penis analogies. It's just like saying that a woman did something bad or really stupid because her boobs were too small.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)I'll leave it at that
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and I'll leave it at that.
Skittles
(153,261 posts)I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT
Nihil
(13,508 posts)> Scott called the incident the single-largest mass shooting in Lee County history.
i.e., the sheriff had to scale down the scope from the country, down from the state,
down from the region and all the way down to this little bum-fuck county before such
an "everyday USA" event becomes "the single-largest mass shooting"?
Just how fucking wrong do folks have to be to fail to understand the scale of
this problem and stop throwing up pathetic little deflections to criticism?
Nihil
(13,508 posts)What an apathetic dystopian society.