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Jezebel 
12/26/08
So fucked up. I'm glad he didn't get away to Canada, but I wish cops had shot him dead or something. But at least he got burned badly and suffered. Shithead.
12/26/08
What a sad, sad story.
12/26/08
No, it isn't "strange". It's smart. So was concealing the flame thrower or whatever the hell he had as a present. Santa is not amiss at a Christmas party...it's a holiday-themed disguise, and unfortunately, one that normally is meant as entertainment for the children, and here drew a little girl whose excitement was rewarded with a bullet to the face.
There's no comfort beyond the fact that he was NOT successful in killing an entire houseful of trapped, terrified people. (He set the house ablaze afterward, didn't he? I think that's what I read.)
This is the sort of story that unfortunately gives bait to gun nuts, but on a personal level...it makes me wish more (RESPONSIBLE,sane, regularly non-violent) citizens were lucky enough to have concealed weapons on them, or at least that a gun would magically appear in the waistband of a would-be victim as soon as the respective psychopath fired his/her first shot. Can't help but think it.
Can't help but feel that way when I think of the shootings in Nickel Mines, in Boulder (thank God Bob Herbert called them what they were...massacres targeting little girls specifically), at Virginia Tech, and now this.
12/26/08
That's what gets me the hardest--an innocent little girl opens the door, and Santa shoots her in the face. That is seriously fucked up.
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Freak went from calling all the time to stalking him to breaking into his house to assaulting me...
Get out while you can if he won't protect you from his mess.
12/26/08
There is nothing, nothing his wife or her family could have possibly said or done to him in divorce court to justify this.
12/26/08
There's a reason why this doesn't happen more often - because most people are not mentally ill with violent tendencies.
I would be willing to bet that this guy has a history of violence and abuse. People don't just snap and do shit like this. They just don't.
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Not to shit on anyone's religion, it's just in my personal experience it's always the "Christians" that are the most judgemental and un-Christianlike.
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That is all I have to say about that. Also, I wish we could lock up men with such sentiments as likely abusers and murderers, because clearly they have no sense of taking responsibility for their own actions if they can excuse the behavior of a man who shot a child the face.
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Because, the moment she leaves is often the moment it escalates. Jerk.
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Despite what friends and nbrs say- these things rarely come out of the blue.
A cop friend was watching the news report with me last night and all she could say was "Flame thrower? That's a twist"
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my prayers go out to the families affected by this whole thing.
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