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niyad

(119,909 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 10:29 AM Aug 2015

Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe

Yes Again. And Again. (the images from his facebook page are beyond disturbing)

Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe


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Nothing funny to say. The boys were three and four years old when their dad killed them.

In what would, in a sane nation, be a national outrage, a responsible lover of the Second Amendment murdered his two little boys, aged three and four, before turning the gun on himself and not quite managing to commit suicide. In a sane nation, there might also be something shocking about this being the second time since December that a vocal open-carry advocate has shot family members to death. But we live in America, so it’s just one more story that we’ll read, shake our heads at, and perhaps wonder if it’s ever going to be time to talk about guns.



No. It is never going to be time to talk about guns. They are our national fetish item. They are America. If you speak ill of guns you’re a fool, a Nazi, a tool of the government that wants to take all the guns away, or worse, far worse, a wimp. Also you’re pretty ghoulish to politicize the tragic deaths of two little boys — too young to have even started kindergarten, for Christ’s sake — by turning their deaths into fodder for yet another ineffectual call for maybe some common sense talk about guns. Because freedom isn’t free, and a man needs a gun to protect his family. Who’ll protect his family from the man with the gun? Shut up, you gun-grabber. You’re just playing to emotions instead of recognizing the fact that guns save lives. Except when they don’t.

Let’s back up and get at the details: The boys, Josiah Fuller, 3, and Uriah Fuller, 4, were shot to death at around 3 in the morning by their father, Shawn Fuller, 31, in Statesville, North Carolina, following a domestic disturbance from which Fuller’s wife, whose name hasn’t been released, escaped. According to a neighbor, Fuller regularly fired guns at milk jugs, cans, and trees in his backyard, often while drinking alcohol. The call to the Iredell County Sheriff’s office reported a “domestic incident” at the home; the caller “said a man at the home was firing a gun and was intoxicated.” A report released Monday by the sheriff’s office said that after shooting his kids, Fuller had been on the phone with an unidentified person who said that Fuller had admitted shooting his sons and had also threatened to kill law enforcement officers, but by the time they arrived, Fuller had shot himself. He’s currently in critical condition at a hospital.

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The afternoon before the shootings, Fuller had taken Uriah and Josiah shopping, with his gun strapped to his waist, as was apparently his habit. He made a point of telling the clerk at the store that he “wouldn’t shop anywhere he couldn’t bring his gun,” according to another shopper, Kelli Simko, who played with the boys while Fuller shopped for “something for his wife.” He apparently made several comments about the need to carry a gun at all times, and also mentioned that he’d enrolled his boys in self-defense classed because of what a wicked world we live in today. “He said how you can’t even walk into a movie theater anymore,” she said.

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/592820/open-carry-dude-assaults-wife-kills-two-sons-keeps-second-amendment-safe#l8EfP3yjiKaRiwOH.99

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Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe (Original Post) niyad Aug 2015 OP
Guns! Guns! Guns! flamin lib Aug 2015 #1
sadly, not any time soon. niyad Aug 2015 #2
cost of freedom, right? dhill926 Aug 2015 #12
that little boy on the left, the older one has that look, roguevalley Aug 2015 #15
Ask not how much it costs the country; ask how much the merchants of death can earn. erronis Aug 2015 #19
Gun Rites Trumped Their Lives. (nt) stone space Aug 2015 #3
interesting, and accurate, spelling there. niyad Aug 2015 #4
I support this message, niyad. brer cat Aug 2015 #5
and absolutely nothing changes niyad Aug 2015 #6
If I thought it would brer cat Aug 2015 #7
I have some, but they would probably get me banned. niyad Aug 2015 #8
There is that too. brer cat Aug 2015 #9
thank you, that is why this is posted in this group. niyad Aug 2015 #10
Look at the expressions on those little one's faces. Certainly libdem4life Aug 2015 #11
The batshit crazy expression on Daddy Dearest. sarge43 Aug 2015 #13
Yeah penis extensions for men with inferiority complexes. . .I mean guns. Hooray guns! Feeling the Bern Aug 2015 #14
careful Skittles Aug 2015 #18
Yeah, strange. Now they might want all of the Sandy Hook kids and teachers to have AK47s erronis Aug 2015 #20
somebody I know called guns adult pacifiers niyad Aug 2015 #28
I was told a gun was not a gun but an "attitude-adjustment device." calimary Nov 2021 #33
Good thing there was a good guy with a gun there.... oh wait! Roland99 Aug 2015 #16
I could eat a jelly doughnut. snort Aug 2015 #23
I'm sure DU's premiere gun humper will be here to explain Skittles Aug 2015 #17
Gun humper: ROTFFLMMFAO!!! Feeling the Bern Aug 2015 #21
I prefer 'necroguniac'. Nt flamin lib Aug 2015 #24
oh, I am soooo stealing that! niyad Aug 2015 #29
will be interesting. niyad Aug 2015 #30
Oh there's more than one. And I'm sure the pile-on will begin at any moment. calimary Aug 2015 #31
I'm thinking one is a paid NRA spokesman Skittles Aug 2015 #32
loaded pacifier. well, shame he did not kill himself. pansypoo53219 Aug 2015 #22
Jesus Novara Aug 2015 #25
Many, maybe most, of these vocal open-carry advocates drm604 Aug 2015 #26
Guns are the answer HassleCat Aug 2015 #27

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
1. Guns! Guns! Guns!
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 10:52 AM
Aug 2015

They kill 30,000 a year, injure another 100,000 and cost the economy $200-250 Billion a year.

When are we as a nation gonna' wake up?

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
15. that little boy on the left, the older one has that look,
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 12:53 PM
Aug 2015

someone who is afraid and saw too much stuff. Poor little angels.

brer cat

(26,260 posts)
5. I support this message, niyad.
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 11:09 AM
Aug 2015

I am just out of words to say. Over and over and over we go down the raging river, over the falls, into the abyss.

niyad

(119,909 posts)
10. thank you, that is why this is posted in this group.
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 11:28 AM
Aug 2015

by the way, love your gif. my kittehs used to do exactly that.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
11. Look at the expressions on those little one's faces. Certainly
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 11:46 AM
Aug 2015

not happy. RIP...to the Great Mother/Father who will take care of you.

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
14. Yeah penis extensions for men with inferiority complexes. . .I mean guns. Hooray guns!
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 12:35 PM
Aug 2015

If those two kids were carrying, none of this would have happened. Where are the good kids with guns to stop the bad guy with guns?

It isn't the gun. The gun is just a tool. Hooray, ego boosters for self-loathing XY chromosome having human beings.

erronis

(16,827 posts)
20. Yeah, strange. Now they might want all of the Sandy Hook kids and teachers to have AK47s
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 01:15 PM
Aug 2015

There is no level so low that they won't go.

calimary

(84,318 posts)
33. I was told a gun was not a gun but an "attitude-adjustment device."
Sun Nov 21, 2021, 02:35 AM
Nov 2021

I once interviewed the manager of a gun range and he told me that.

Skittles

(159,322 posts)
17. I'm sure DU's premiere gun humper will be here to explain
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 01:07 PM
Aug 2015

how guns REALLY have nothing to do with this

calimary

(84,318 posts)
31. Oh there's more than one. And I'm sure the pile-on will begin at any moment.
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 08:22 PM
Aug 2015

I just get tired of fighting with them, arguing with them, and trying to bring some sense into the argument. But by God that Almighty Holy Goddamn Sacrosanct You-Can't-Touch-This Second Fucking Amendment just can't even be LOOKED AT to see if we need to update it or change it or amend it further to reflect changing times.

Skittles

(159,322 posts)
32. I'm thinking one is a paid NRA spokesman
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:13 PM
Aug 2015

I'd hate to think anyone consistently pimps like that for free

Novara

(6,115 posts)
25. Jesus
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 02:46 PM
Aug 2015

I am so sick of this shit. The fucking gun fetishists, constantly masturbating their damn guns and insisting they HAVE A RIGHT, GODDAMMIT. Well, the rest of us have rights not to be confronted by and angry idiot carrying a fucking assault weapon in the fucking CVS.

Jesus.

And once again, since it's domestic violence, no one pays much attention.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
26. Many, maybe most, of these vocal open-carry advocates
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 02:54 PM
Aug 2015

are the last people we should want carrying guns.

Someone that scared of everyone around them becomes a menace when armed.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
27. Guns are the answer
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 02:58 PM
Aug 2015

If the boys had been armed, they could have defended themselves against their father. The answer to a bad dad with a gun is toddlers with guns.

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