The father, Richard Peters, shot his daughter Stormy, aged 6, to death with one of his handguns. There is nothing unusual in this. There is nothing unusual at all in any of the behavior of the man who (by his own account) blew away his kid. Like any good father, Richard was simply drinking in the presence of his children, "multiple double shots of vodka."
There was nothing unusual about a gun owner, inebriated or not, 'cleaning' a loaded gun. They seem to do that regularly. There was nothing unusual about a gun owner having the gun around incompetent children. There was nothing unusual about letting kids handle guns. These are things that the home-grown bang-bangers so often seem to claim rights to.
Peters reportedly told police all of his children handle guns, including his 3-year-old. He said the handgun that fired Sunday has a "hair trigger," and he thought his daughter could have been able to pull back the slide, loading a bullet into the chamber.
There isn't anything, so far as we know, that's unusual about a father suggesting that his child may have been the cause of her own death.
So, daddy behaved the way you'd expect a moron to behave.
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But what about Mama? Where was she?
She was there in the home, living with a drinking man who owns multiple guns. Living with a man who leaves his guns around small children.
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AND SO: Congratulations to you mom, whatever your name is: You have won this week's very competitive WACKO AWARD! If you decide to chuck out Richard when he gets out of prison, or if you decide to get rid of those guns while daddy is away, we would understand. But, don't do anything rash. Think it over for awhile.
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RUNNER-UP:
Adam Ballingall, arrested in the parking lot of the Big Head Bar in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, for possession of illegal substances. This is how he came dressed. Convenient.
1 comment:
This is absolutely right. Where was she?
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