Here’s an educational moment:
HOUSTON –
There was chaos at the scene of an attempted murder-suicide in Northwest Houston on Monday night as family members tried to get answers from investigators.
Houston police said they were called to a home on Fullerton Drive near Hammerly and Beltway 8 around 7 p.m.
Investigators told Local 2 the father allegedly came home drunk and argued with his wife. She pulled out a gun and asked her husband to leave. They said the husband pulled a gun and shot the wife, who was injured but played dead.
The man’s stepson came inside after calling police. Police said that’s when the man shot his stepson, then shot and killed himself.
“I heard yelling,” said neighbor Barbara Estrada, who lives across the street from the family. “I could hear voices. I didn’t know what they were saying.”
Stunned neighbors described the family as loud and annoying. They said police have been to the home for fights in the past, but they also said they never thought one of those fights would end in gunfire.
“I thought they’d get in trouble for the dogs, not for this,” said Estrada.
“I would never think that it would get to that level,” said neighbor Roxanne Mendez. “I mean, I know they fight but I didn’t think a gun would get pulled out. (I) didn’t even think they owned a gun or anything.”
Source: http://www.click2houston.com/news/man-allegedly-shoots-wife-son-then-turns-gun-on-himself/26735832
She could have been a hero, she could have been the woman that shot that bastard and avoided getting her and her son shot. Sadly, she hesitated. How else can a drunken man, with lower reflexes, shoot her when she had her own gun pointed at him?
Ammophobes of course will use this story to “prove” that guns don’t work while ignoring all those Guns Save Lives stories that prove otherwise.
Guns always work, if they’re well-maintained and used without hesitation, they work perfectly
As usual, this was a case of human error, nothing more.
