Mother fatally shoots sons, 9 months old and 3, then herself, Pasco sheriff says

[Zorro]

The father walked in on the tragic scene at their Land O’ Lakes home and called 911, sheriff’s officials said.

NEW PORT RICHEY — A father walked into his Land O’ Lakes home Wednesday evening to find that the mother of his children had shot their two young sons to death before turning a gun on herself, sheriff’s officials said.

The boys were 9 months old and 3, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at a news conference Thursday at the Sheriff’s Office in New Port Richey.

Nocco used the incident to issue a plea for more emphasis across society on dealing with mental health issues, pointing to mental health as a factor in the mother’s actions – “a decision that was beyond horrific.”

Sheriff’s officials did not identify the victims, citing Marsy’s Law – a voter-approved amendment to the state Constitution that was meant to protect crime victims but that denies the public information long available under Florida’s public records laws.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2022/01/12/woman-2-kids-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-land-o-lakes-pasco-deputies-say/

[AndyS]

1. There are many reasons for gun violence.

They all have one thing in common.

GUNS.

[Earth-shine]

2. She would have had a harder time killing her children without that gun.

It is much harder -- emotionally on the killer's part -- to kill with a knife, bludgeon, or bare hands than a gun from a distance.

Oh, my. I ask rhetorically, what could be so bad to make a mother kill her children? Please don't answer.