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Actually found this one on an anti-gun blog.

In the early hours of Tuesday, the State Police said, Mr. Friedlander, 50, beat his wife to death with the leg of a piece of furniture. He also fatally shot his two children, Molly, 10, and Gregory, 8, in their bedrooms, covered their bodies with their bedspreads, then went downstairs to the basement and turned the weapon, a 12-gauge Remington pump-action shotgun, on himself, Maj. Michael Kopy of the State Police said at a news conference on Wednesday.

Now of course this anti was beating his drum because the children were shot with a shotgun, as well as that was the chosen method of suicide.

But if you’re a regular reader of the “Gun Death?” Files you’ll notice that small children are often cited here because they’re weak and small so many cases of them being beaten to death are common, furthermore they’re dependent on their parents, how often does a sick parent feed them poison or drown them in the tub?

An adult is much harder to kill just because they’re more aware and have more size and strength. Of course in this case he felt the need to beat her with an improvised club. Something built with the intent to hold up furniture…but it was used for a weapon.

Also note that New York is a fairly rotten state for buying and owning guns…but a Remington 870 is one of those guns that is acceptable because of its “Sporting Uses”.

Also I don’t see why we should get all bent out of shape over his suicide. He committed three brutal murders in a state without capital punishment. He saved the courts and the penal system a LOT of money with that one shotgun shell.

And I’ll close with a song that this reminds me of:

One of the goals of the “Gun Death?” Files is to show the mentality of violent people as opposed to the tools they use, as those who use the made-up metric of “Gun Death” often do to frame the argument in a a more sympathetic light. Most often we see that the perpetrators of this violence have little to no respect for human life, so if that’s how they see the world what does it matter if they have a gun, or a knife, or a bat, or a car? And of course those of us who have the highest respect and value for human life are armed to the teeth, what do you have to fear from us?

But what if we’re not just talking about individuals, but a cultural value?

A video of a horrendous hit-and-run accident in China involving a two-year-old child has sparked outcry in the nation and questions over the price of modernity.

The video shows a van running over a toddler, Yueyue, in a busy market and driving on as bystanders walk and drive past the bloody child without helping, Reuters reports. The child is left in the street for so long — seven minutes — that there is time for a truck to come and run over the girl again, it states.

The video can be found here I will advise that if you are sensitive to horrific behavior DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO, but I must post it because if I hadn’t watched it myself I wouldn’t have belived it.

After the second vehicle runs over the child, a woman pulls her to the side of the street, and her mother then rushes to her. BBC reports that the woman who finally helped the child was a trash collector.

China’s Xinhua news agency reports that the girl survived the incident and is now in a coma, however the Shanghai Daily reported that she died.

This isn’t just one or two people, this is an entire culture that sees no value in female children that vast amounts of them are murdered or discarded.

The lucky ones are adopted to the West. Massachusetts, because of our education and high-paced job market the population as a rule has their children older, because of this reproduction difficulties are higher as well. Because of this I very often see white upper-middle-class couples pushing strollers with East-Asian babies and young children in them, I can’t recall seeing a male in this situation. One can assume these are unwanted Chinese female children…much like this little girl run down by a car and ignored in her extreme injuries.

Horrible.

h/t Roadkill

**Update** She has since died. Sad tale..

One bit of magical thinking is that by making guns illegal it will eliminate gun crime. Any rational person knows this isn’t true.

The alleged driver charged in a fatal road-rage crash in Richmond does not have a valid driver’s license and has not had one since his North Carolina license was suspended in 2003, according to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles.

North Carolina court records also show that Christopher Sessoms, of Wake County, N.C., has convictions since 1998 on several charges, including driving with a revoked license, driving while intoxicated, possession of an open container of alcohol in the passenger area of a vehicle, resisting a public officer and several counts of trespassing….Authorities took the suspects into custody after Dees pulled up to their home driving the red pickup truck that authorities say was involved in the fatal crash on Sept. 22. Law enforcement officials said Dees also was charged with trafficking in opiates after they found 82 Oxycontin pills in her bra.

Odd that all those laws were broken, but they didn’t seem to prevent these bad things from happening. You see laws only work for punishing the guilty, and it appears that if the courts do their job these dangerous beasts will disappear for a good while.

Yeah there were people killed…but it was a car, not a gun. Only “Gun Death” counts!

h/t Sean