Many of the anti-rights jerks cite domestic disputes as a reason to restrict gun rights.
A witness, who claims to have recently started dating the victim, claimed he got a call from their cell phone from a man named Hank, in which Hank stated, “She’s done and you’re next. I’ll find you.” The witness then called 911 to report the call.
Another witness, a friend of the victim for 20 years, claimed Hickman had been violent with his wife and she had recently filed for divorce.
The Star Tribune reported Cynthia Hickman was granted a protective order less than two weeks before her death, but Henry Hickman reportedly returned to live in the basement of the house after he ran out of money while living in a hotel.
A lot of good all that did for her.
The charges allege Hickman beat his wife to death with a bat and then shoved her body beneath a mattress and lit it on fire. The attempted second-degree murder charges stem from Hickman instructing his two young sons to stay in the basement while the house filled with smoke…The autopsy showed the victim died of blunt force trauma and not as a result of the fire.
Seems the killer didn’t need a gun to kill his wife, nor did he need any special tool. I think most of us owned at LEAST one baseball bat as a young child, let alone as grown adults.
But wouldn’t a gun have been nice in the hand of the victim?
This is why I do the “Gun Death?” files. To show the violence that will exist in a world without guns, but also to show what can happen when victims are disarmed.
h/t Maddmedic
You don’t even need a baseball bat (which is, after all, a type of specialized tool). A 2×4 or even a table leg will accomplish the same thing.