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Pastor’s Wife Buys Gun From TX Shop — And Shoots Herself Dead in the Parking Lot

Jan. 1, 2013 7:03am Billy Hallowell

A tragic and bizarre story has unfolded in East Dallas, Texas, where Harriet Deison, a pastor’s wife, was found dead after shooting herself inside of her vehicle over the weekend. The 65-year-old woman purportedly bought a pistol at a local gun shop just before using the weapon to take her own life in the store’s parking lot.

Authorities contend that Deison killed herself with the gun after purchasing it at the McClelland Gun Shop, a Texas firearms supplier; the incident unfolded around 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. The death leaves police with few answers, as the GA Daily News reports that a suicide note was not left at the scene.

Harriet Deison Buys Gun at Texas Shop, Shoots Herself in Parking Lot

Harriet Deison (left) and her husband Pete (Photo Credit: GA Daily News)

According to the Daily Mail, Deison was married to Pete Deison, a pastor at Park Cities Presbyterian Church. The mother and grandmother also ran Minwood One Corp., a business that the outlet describes as “an administrative and services support company.”

In an op-ed published on Chattanoogan.com, Roy Exum, a friend of the Deison family, described the pastor’s wife as “beautiful.” Exum’s praise of the family showcases just how beloved Deison was in the community:

The reason I tell this story is because my extended family loved the Deison family very much. For years we worshipped with them, we dined with them, we laughed with them and, yes, we have cried with them when sometimes life seemed to go awry. What great Christians! What fabulous Children of God!

For literally decades Harriet and Pete propped us up, assuring us that by God’s grace a New Dawn was coming – as unstoppable as the New Year itself – and that if only we would place our faith and trust in Jesus Christ things would take a better turn. So help me, that promise has never failed me. (Oh, sometimes God doesn’t show up the moment you call Him but, brother, He’s always right on time!)

Further, as Pete has dedicated his entire life to the counsel and comfort of fellow strugglers, quite often he called on Harriet for her tender help, to which she always responded in such a loving and gentle way that neither anguish or incident stood a chance. Now this … oh my goodness, now this.

Considering that no note was left at the scene — and taking into account Deison’s role in the community — many questions remain. Some are asking whether the weapon accidentally went off in the car. Others are delving into questions surrounding Texas’ gun laws and whether a longer waiting period might have saved the woman’s life.

As for this latter point, the process of receiving a gun, background check included, only takes about 20 minutes. After going through the rather quick acquisition process, customers like Deison can simply walk out of the store, firearm in hand.

Considering that the pastor’s wife took her life in the McClelland Gun Shop parking lot right after purchasing a gun, it’s likely that criticism of this process will abound. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plans to investigate whether the shop followed protocol in selling the weapon to Deison.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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Comments (326)

Anadara
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:29am
Suicides are not related to guns, ropes, poisons, high bridges, or any other conceiveable method of croaking yourself. It’s a mental health issue and an individuals ability to deal with serious depression. …ANY other argument is just a red herring. Don’t fall for it.

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- PPMStudios
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:55am
  Exactly! Good post….
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:40am
  I’ve worked a few suicides, and where there is a will, there is a way.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:50am
  Wonder why she didn’t save her husband a few bucks and just drive the car into a concrete wall on the way to the Gun Shop?
- grimmster
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:02am
  So why is the suicide of this woman news, how many other suicides took place at the time this woman “shot” herself, that went unreported?Loooks like the liberals at the Blaze are out in full force attacking guns like the MsM,come on Glenn, you’re better than this……
  
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- 700P
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:10am
  If she really intended to shoot herself (no note or motive) why not just rent the gun(as has happened several times recently).
  
  This brings up a point we need to be crystal clear on. We don’t want to prevent teachers who want to be armed and complete EXTENSIVE training. Much as the 2nd Amendment DOES NOT COMPELL FIREARMS OWNERSHIP, TEACHERS CAN’T BE COMPELLED TO BE ARMED. I saw enough people during my time in the military who joined for college benefits and probably had no business being armed with live ammo other than annually on the qual range (scary). Furtheemore, we REJECT the Left’s use of the term ARMED GUARD in favor of the word POLICE. AG suggests either a poorly trained rent-a-cop or a prison tower guard.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:14am
  This was a selfish woman that was trying in her suicide to make a statement. Now her poor family has to live with the guilt. As in…was there anything I could have done? Was the last thing I said to her something that could have pushed her over the edge…and so on. I have no pity for her but I do for the family she selfishly left behind.
  
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- tommee
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:17am
  Every country in the world has people with mental illness. The difference between other countries and the United States is that Americans are in the unique position of having unlimited access to guns to take the lives of themselves and others. Statistics don’t lie. The mentally ill of other countries don’t kill nearly as many people as their gun happy American counterparts do. Blaming mental illness for the extraordinarily high number number of gun deaths in the United States is a straw man argument based on fantasy.
  
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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:31am
  Grimster you obviously understand why this story is being told at this time. Some people don’t.
  http://www.vimeo.com/52009124
  
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- blue_rain
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:58am
  Absolutely!
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:01pm
  The weapon was a tool, NOT the REASON!
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:07pm
  @Grim, as the days go by, I noticed like many others, that the Blaze is no different then MSNBC, CNN, NBC, Fox, or any of the liberal news rag out there. You are correct, this is a non story.
  
  Again the instrument gets Highlighted (the firearm) and not the contributing factor (depression.)
  
  Instruments of destruction: Subway Trains, Automobiles, Airplanes, Knives, Hands, Feet, and box cutters never get the blame when involved in a death. Always the contributing factor will get the blame.
  
  Then we come to the instrument: The Firearm – when involved in a death it always gets the blame and the contributing factor is the innocent bystander. Thus, this article on the Blaze.
  
  The Real Question should be asked: Why Glenn?
  
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- stage9
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:09pm
  @anadara, yes, but since Americans love to blame everyone or anything but themselves for their behavior, don’t expect anything to change.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:23pm
  Yes. Untreated Depression. Ministry people are prone to this very much. Aging is also a factor. As people age in this society they tend toward depression.
  
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- Newtowns-Third-Law
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:24pm
  Let’s take our lead from the NRA.
  
  No one is saying we cannot own firearms, at least not yet they aren’t – but stories like this are going to mean lots of additional government money will be needed to pay for more mental health coverage and more regulations on video games and motion pictures, and possibly on Rap songs. The NRA was quite clear last week that more police must be hired to protect our public schools – which would actually cost about $8 Billion a year. Then add $ 50 Billion for mental health and you see where we are headed.
  
  The NRA has a point – which is Put Up (Hundreds of Billions of Dollars) or SHUT UP.
  
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- whatahka
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:35pm
  And this is what theblaze doesn’t present? Hmmmm. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/12/media-quiet-about-san-antonio-theater-shooting-2524596.html
  
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- TOMYMICHAELS
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:38pm
  The comment in the article… “Some are asking whether the weapon accidentally went off in the car.” This is impossible! New guns just purchased are NOT loaded! The woman had to intentionally load the gun (this isn’t by definition accidental), put it to her head or heart, and then put her finger on the trigger. Yes, after doing ALL OF THIS it might accidentally go off, BUT… if one opens an ammunition box, loads a gun, and points it at oneself, they are either totally stupid, ignorant for never taking a firearms safety class BEFORE ever touching any weapon, OR, she commited suicide!!! STOP BLAMING THE GUN, THE SALESMAN HANDED IT TO HER… IN A BOX!!! UNLOADED!!!
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:45pm
  My first reaction to this story is she probably had little training with firearms and was loading it in her car and accidentally shot her self. No matter what the reason it’s a tragedy, but by no means is a condemnation for all gun owners or the process of obtaining on legally.
  
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- steelpanther
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:58pm
  whatahka, The blaze posted that story shortly after the CT shootings.
  
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- FormerLib
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:22pm
  I’m just curious what the appropriate time interval between buying a gun and blowing your head off with it. 24 hours? Three days? A week? A year?
  
  In other news, I just bought a nice Beretta 40 cal yesterday and I didn’t shoot myself or anyone else. I suspect there are many thousands of people just like me with my similar experience.
  
  I heard a brilliant definition of the difference between liberalism and conservatism. Conservatives want the individual to be punished for his transgressions and rewarded or his efforts. Liberals want the collective punished for the sins of the individual and the collective rewarded from his efforts.
  
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- FormerLib
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:26pm
  “The comment in the article… “Some are asking whether the weapon accidentally went off in the car.” This is impossible! New guns just purchased are NOT loaded! The woman had to intentionally load the gun (this isn’t by definition accidental), put it to her head or heart, and then put her finger on the trigger.”
  
  Not only that, but where I live, one buys a gun with the dealer inserting a cable and lock through the breech and barrel, making it impossible for the gun to even accept a round or operate unless removed by the owner. They must leave the store like this.
  
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- 4BlueStars
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:34pm
  @REDFISH, Agreed. Been through it. The survivors carry it with them the rest of their lives.
  
  But you gotta wonder. This is almost like she was punishing somebody. I won’t even say what I suspect.
  
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- BigSky
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:35pm
  @whatahka: Search is your friend…. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/man-attempts-to-open-fire-on-crowd-at-movie-theater-armed-off-duty-sheriffs-deputy-drops-him-with-one-bullet/
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:35pm
  @whatahka
  
  I think you’re mistaken…
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/man-attempts-to-open-fire-on-crowd-at-movie-theater-armed-off-duty-sheriffs-deputy-drops-him-with-one-bullet/
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Hi BigSky,
  
  LOL….
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:46pm
  My sentiments exactly. I’ve been to memorials for Marines who’ve committed suicide before. One committed suicide with a gun, the other with a shoestring. If someone is serious about taking their own life, they will find a way to do it. It doesn’t matter if their is a gun or shoestring laying around. They will do it. And another poster made a good comment that she could have just as easily plowed her car into a concrete wall. I’ve also been to a memorial for a Marine who killed himself while riding his motorcycle. It was a single vehicle accident…
  
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- 700P
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:00pm
  Tomme,
  As my prof said years ago “statistics don’t lie but liars use statistics”
  
  Much like Mother Jones’ position guns never prevented a mass shooting be excluding any incident where shots were fired(maybe they’re tacitly esposing a Bush Doctrine of Preemptive Strike?). I would argue your statistics exclude mentally ill Islamofascists such as what just occurred in Pakistan. Furthermore our overkill on medical privacy/HIPPA is more problematic than other countries and if your argument made any sense Switzerland would be the homicide capitol of the world.
  
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- Constantine Ivanov
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:08pm
  As a person suffering several enormous medical problems at the same time, I assure you that not only “depression” might cause a wish to commit suicide: for instance, some illnesses that don’t allow a person any activity (like the end stage of emphysema).
  
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- whatahka
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:49pm
  My bad…..I stand corrected. Miss a day or two and I’m out of the loop. I apologize.
  
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- Sickandtiredofextremists
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Exactly! I have an acquaintance who’s son recently hanged himself from a door knob in the home. So where there’s a will there’s definitely a way!
  
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- roscoe569
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Gee………..what aren’t we supposed to fall for: ………that guns may be a problem in America?
  Now why would we fall for that !
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:58pm
  I’m going to believe she was just inspecting her new purchase and decided to load it, and who knows?
  
  But, Satan is alive and well and turns a little problem into something worse, if you’re not strong enough to call on Jesus to help you.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:27pm
  we need to put God back in schools! ; )
  
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- NeoFan
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:14pm
  @Grimmster, your perception is correct the Blaze is anti-gun. Just days after the sandy hook massacre two mass shooting were prevented by citizens that were armed and the Blaze ignored the stories. I know they were aware of the stories because I sent them to the tip line. I love Glenn but he hires leftists and expects them to live up to his standards and values and the fact is that leftists don’t have values like yours and mine. If things like this are not addressed the Blaze will go the way of the new york times.
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:52pm
  TOMMEE — If it were not gun deaths it would be some other kind of death. There are even MORE ( DID YOU HEAR THAT, MORE) CRIME AND MURDERS WHERE THERE ARE LESS GUNS! so shut up!
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:57pm
  Glenn bought himself a seat on the NWO lifeboat !!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-6tzKnrWk
  
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- izzy1127
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:24pm
  @700P: ” Furtheemore, we REJECT the Left’s use of the term ARMED GUARD in favor of the word POLICE. AG suggests either a poorly trained rent-a-cop or a prison tower guard.” For someone who works at a Correctional Facility, we are not “guards”. Correctional Officers work in the Prison System. We are trained how to handle side arms and shotguns. However, I think the training is not extensive enough. Anyone who works in a professional setting should get at least a one month training session instead of one week. And if Security Officers are placed in the school system, I think they should undergo extensive training, and be re-certified every year like Correctional Officers. But I really have no comment on this story. Really don’t know for sure if it was suicide or accidental. One thing I can comment on; why are they questioning the waiting period? The waiting period comes when getting your permits. Once you get a permit, your waiting period is up. It’s up to the Sheriff Dept. to do the background check. That usually takes 2 weeks to a month. If one becomes ineligible for a gun permit, the permit should be rescinded.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:32pm
  I just saw that Feinstein and Boxer have a new bill that will take care of the gun problem. All video game have to use bow & arrows – no guns allowed. All new NCIS and shows like it will have to use Martial Arts – no guns allowed The worst violaence they can show on TV or a vdeo game is spitting in someones face and then a take down with the feet to take thm down. Of course no AR-15 assult weapons and no clips with more than a capacity of 10 bullets. Also, everyone excet their bodyguards have to give serial # and address. Feistein has to protect her bodyguards or someone might trace down her.
  
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- Ragnars Repos
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:41pm
  It was her life, she didn’t hurt anybody else…besides a tragic suicide, what’s the problem?
  
  I’m sure our sociopathic politicians will find a problem and use it to punish the innocent, once again.
  
  Kinda rare for a woman to suicide with a gun.
  
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- FormerLib
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:37pm
  TOMMEE:
  .” Blaming mental illness for the extraordinarily high number number of gun deaths in the United States is a straw man argument based on fantasy.”
  
  So please explain why 30-40 years ago guns were just as numerous, just as powerful, far more easily acquired, and yet these incidents were fewer? If availability of guns was the problem, wouldn’t we see mass murder at gun shows? Wouldn’t we see a much higher percent of gun violence 40 years ago when there were fewer gun laws and restrictions?
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:53pm
  @Did anyone else notice she “also ran Minwood One Corp.” described as a support and consulting firm? At midnight last night, she would have had to either pay for contraceptives {abortions} or pay the fine to obamacare who would have done so. Also, she may well have fallen into the number who’s business would go bankrupt with the new taxes. Perhaps she just couldn’t handle all the stress of this week’s theatrics.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:13pm
  I hate to be disagreeable but many of you deliberately, consciously avoid a key issue of the gun debate. Yes, it’s true that people can kill themselves without a gun. But that argument is a little dishonest isn’t it? There’s not an easier way to kill yourself than with a gun you’d agree (it’s the number 1 method in the US). And if you have a gun already, you really don’t need to plan much to kill yourself. You don’t have to drive to that high point you’re going to jump off of, you don’t need to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to hang yourself successfully. You grab the gun, and it’s done on whatever impulse brings you to that point in a flash. I imagine it’s a lot easier to point and shoot than it is to try to cut your wrists or take pills, which gives you a lot of to reconsider your decision.
  
  Gun suicides are almost always successful, other methods are far less frequently successful.
  
  There’s a fact here. Guns make it really, really easy for people to kill themselves or someone else. It’s way more easy to kill yourself with a gun than any other method, and way more easy to kill a theater full of people too..
  
  I’m not against gun ownership for personal protection or hunting, but come on guys, you have to admit that killing yourself or other people with guns is way, way easier than any other way. So it happens more often. That surprises anybody?
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:13pm
  “Others are delving into questions surrounding Texas’ gun laws and whether a longer waiting period might have saved the woman’s life.”
  
  …..and there it is…..the ENTIRE reason for the story.
  
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- 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:25pm
  Yep, back in the 70′s in Markham Il you would hear about a suicide every couple of weeks. Most were by hanging and were under 20. Child abuse and sexual abuse was rampant and authorities did nothing. Of course these are the parents who are the same people trying to change the country. A lost generation of indulgence in drugs and sex. Some of us kids were motivated to not be like these pigs.
  
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- Imjetta
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:55am
  Excellent comment, thank you!
  
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- milez5
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:01am
  It is obvious that this woman had problems and wanted to die. If she could not have bought the gun at a gun shop, I’m sure that there were plenty of people from her church that would have been happy to sell her a gun. Perhaps she thought of that and chose a gun shop so that no one in her church would feel guilty for selling her that gun that she killed herself with.
  
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- liltexasgal
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:48am
  Ditto that
  
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- HANDOVRHRT
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:56am
  You forgot about the Milk Man argument
  
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- AGreyGhost
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:13am
  I didn’t know all that. I did know it was a mental issue. There have been several old friends from childhood that have taken their own lives, each just as hard to understand and each a different way.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:46am
  Sad but in the scheme of things not important. If you are concerned about suicide, be concerned about the number of military who have chosen to take their own lives.
  
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- Crusader101
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:07am
  Everyone should let some time go by before speculating. She knew it was a grave sin to commit suicide. Let’s see what an investigation comes up with.
  
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- caveman74
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:10am
  by your use of “straw man” I can tell you are one of those enlightened people tomme. So you think muslim extremists dont count as mentally ill and therefore dont count. Trust me there are more lives taken by crazies around the globe than there are here in the US. Blaming guns is a “straw man” argument. More people die by cars than by guns every year in the US. Is it the cars fault or is it poor quality of roads? Because by your logic, peoples poor decisions cant have a thing to do with it
  
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- gperky
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:55am
  Great post and absolutely true! If you remember several years ago, people were jumping off bridges. The Golden Gate bridge and the Sunshine Skyway in Florida both have racked up a number of suicides. I guess we need to blame the bridges for being so high. If they had been shorter bridges, these people would have lived. Lets just ban bridges!!! Sorry, I had to vent!
  
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- tommee
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:15pm
  Hey 700P… Gun crime in Switzerland is virtually non-existent because all guns are registered, and handgun purchases require a background check and a permit.
  
  I agree with you 700P. America should be more like Switzerland.
  
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- FoxholeAtheist
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:44pm
  She found out she was passed over for a spot on Pastor Wives.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:02pm
  The first Thing I would like to know, Is, did She Even have a Legally obtained concealed Carry Permit & the Training in the Safe use of a firearm? Then I’d like to Know where she got the Ammo for it, Surely, the Gun Shop didn’t allow her to Carry a Loaded weapon out of their store?
  Lastly, WHY is there a JUMP to claim that she committed Suicide, When it’s just as easy to say that she may have Pulled the trigger, thinking that the gun was unloaded? or the safety was on?
  I have 45 Years experience, Caring for & shooting Guns of many sizes, But even I have made that Near Fatal mistake, ONCE!, While reloading, Trust me when I say, Having a 44 Mag, going off, just Missing my head by a few cm. is a wake-up call I Never want to go through again., Maybe Just Maybe, This is what happened to her, ?!?
  
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- canadianlady
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 1:39am
  @redfish52 – You have no idea what she said to whom before she went out and bought that gun. She may have had a long, meaningful talk to each and every one of her loved ones. You have no idea what was going on inside her head. With no basis whatsoever, you assume that she was trying to make a statement. For all anyone knows, including you, she may have wanted to kill herself quickly, before she lost the nerve. Suicide is a very complicated thing, and unlike you, I feel compassion for that woman, and for the overwhelming sense of desperation and despair that drove her to do the unthinkable.
  
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KNaggieland
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:28am
Forgive my bluntness but something does not add up. Perhaps some LEO’s out there can either confirm or deny this, but shooting ones self in the head is a rather unusual way for a woman to kill herself. I thought the preferred method for women especially older women was pills or exsanguination as both methods are more peaceful.

There has to be a whole lot more to this story. Shooting yourself in the head tends to be a spur of the moment thing in the heat of passion so to speak, taking the time to go buy a gun, load it and blow your head off in a parking lot seems more of a ritual self punishment thing.

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- FMJGunny
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:18am
  You are correct. Another thing, the Blaze says, “As for this latter point, the process of receiving a gun, background check included, only takes about 20 minutes.”
  
  MY AZZ!
  
  Try three to four hours IF you have a concealed carry permit here in Texas. If not, it could take ALL DAY. I just went through that a week BEFORE Xmas. Took the better part of three hours in line and another 30 minutes of paperwork when I FINALLY got my turn to complete the 4473.
  
  So this is yet another attempt at laying the blame on GUNS. Something is definitely fishy. And The Blaze is completely wrong. Gee, how did that happen?
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:22am
  From what I’ve heard, you’re right. Most women gas themselves with car fumes, maybe run their car into something, but guns are just so messy. Of course, I’ve not had a lot of experience with suicides. I dealth with one as a police dispatcher. A young man drove his car into the front yard of his mother’s house, lit a jar filled with gasoline and burnt himself up after locking the doors.
  
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- bb8689
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:40am
  The 20 minute time-frame is accurate from my recent experience. I went with my young adult son to buy a Glock for him as a gift. He doesn’t have a CHL and it took about 20 minutes. The weekend before Christmas I went to Academy with my wife to buy her a semi-automatic Taurus pistol. Again, the process was about 20 minutes. She has a CHL.
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:48am
  Sounds like it was an accident to me. Why are people so willing to accept what is spoon fed to them? I would hope that at least some people wake up from their Matrix moment and think about the possibility that reality is somewhere outside of the box. We may never know the truth about anything we are being told these days but at least try to find it. Think about Benghazi the next time you think you know what is going on.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:08am
  @FMJGunny.
  It took me 15 minutes for Cabalas to run my background check,and another 10 at the checkout counter to recieve it. If it took as long as you say, then they found a reason to dig deeper.Took my son days to get his handgun, simply because of another person out there with the exact same name as my son, has a record…….And btw encinom,waiting two weeks changes nothing,if you have commited no federal crime then there is no need to look farther, since they dont check local records…..
  
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- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:19am
  In the course of my career, I worked dozens of suicides and suicide attempts. In most cases, women had either slashed their wrists or tried to OD on prescription drugs (although I saw few cases where they used aspirin or Tylenol). Both methods were overwhelmingly ineffective. A few jumped from a considerable height, a couple jumped in front of moving vehicles, and a couple hanged themselves. Overall, I saw a lot of suicide attempts by women, but only a handful of them were successful. I never saw one who had shot herself. Men, on the other hand, had a much higher rate of success, and usually had shot themselves. I don’t recall ever seeing one who had cut his wrists.
  
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- bitterclinger
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:44pm
  MY OB, a woman, who I later learned was an alcoholic, killed herself by OD. She was a sweet soul who knew what she was doing so much that whatever she took guaranteed she’d slip away slowly enough that her organs could be harvested — which was in her note.
  
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- TexVet61
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:28pm
  Several points:1. I agree the Blaze seems more and more to have become nothing more but another junk outlet, NOTHING like Glen started it out to be, after all, where are the stories like San Antonio where someone saved the day, I know they are out there.
  2. 20 minutes/all day, Lol, I am from Dallas and currently live in Kentucky where if you have a CCW you forgo the check all together, on my BDay (28th) I bought two pistols, took me 45 minutes to get to look at them because of crowds in store, less than 10 min to do paperwork and checkout, most of time was doing all answers with paperwork. funnier yet is in Indiana your CCW cost like $15 or someting like that (eitherway it’s cheap), no class and the CCW is on nothing but a pink piece of paper, no picture, nothing like an ID and its lifetime!
  3. A longer waiting period would do nothing, IF I were someone that wanted to do damage and took the time to plan it out, waiting 3 or 5 days wouldn’t be a problem, as stated before where there is a will there is a way.
  LAST – GLENN, WHAT THE HELL? I thought your empire was to be about TRUTH, not just spewing / printing what the mainstream reports on, hell we can get that from the other communist networks, your people are not working very hard if they are not finding the stories that tell the other side (like you promised the Blaze would be about) IE… San Antonio. Come on Scott and Glenn Wake the hell up and do your job, I can get this crap from other Obama networks
  
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- Cats2eye
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:28pm
  In 5 years as an investigator for a “Coroner” system, I had 2 cases where women shot themselves in the head. 1. Under the chin due to an argument. 2. In the mouth. She had taken care of her sister as she slowly and painfully died with intestinal cancer. After the sister’s death, the lady started having similar symptoms and didn’t want to go through it so she bought a gun and shot herself. Ironically the autopsy showed she only had Diverticulitis.
  
  That being said, people really shouldn’t speculate on why someone kills his/herself or even if it was a suicide. Please leave that determination to the professionals who actually see the facts and evidence.
  
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- FMJGunny
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:51pm
  My firearms purchase WAS AT CABELA’S here in the DFW area. I arrived as the store opened the Thursday before Xmas. The background check took approximately 30 minutes, as I had not filled out an automated 4473 before and it took me a bit longer than filling out the paper one I’m used to see.
  
  HOWEVER, it took an almost three hour wait IN LINE to get to that cashier who then got me to fill out the 4473. After I was done, it was about five minutes and I walked out. Maybe McClellands didn’t have any customers last Saturday, but that would happen because they didn’t have a selection. Cabela’s was pretty much stripped of all their popular new handguns two days later when I met a relative there. I’ll have to go back again soon but it’s the same all over the country, as firearms are selling like … hotcakes right now, from Denver to Dallas and lots of places in between – people are scared.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae74oMMQ4ak
  
  that was four years ago and the volume is tripled that since the CT shooting.
  
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- FMJGunny
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:00pm
  Plus, MOST ONLINE GUN SELLER’S WEBSITES are either shutdown, or post a sign like this one:
  
  Due to extremely high order volume, we are experiencing long delays in processing/shipping orders. Please expect and allow 8 – 14 business days for your order to leave our building. We have doubled our shipping staff and are working nights in an effort to process orders as quickly as possible.
  
  We have turned off our phones from accepting in-bound calls so we may focus on processing/shipping orders. This was a tough decision, but one we truly believe will best serve our customers. If necessary to contact us, please do do via email though the Contact Us page on our site. Please only send us an email if absolutely necessary as we are receiving hundreds per day and these take our time away from processing orders. However, we will respond to every email we receive.
  
  We are still accepting orders though our website for those who are accepting of the delays in receiving your orders.
  
  NOTE: Your card will be charged at the time you place your order. We realize this is not ideal when there are long delays in processing, but that is the way our software works at this time. If this is not acceptable, please do not place an order with us during this time of record volume.
  
  We value you as a customer and appreciate your understanding.
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  This is one company I’d done business with for years and they have NEVER shut down like this before. CDNN is having the same p
  
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Bobert
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:24am
Blaze . . . there is no story here. A local Texas woman took her life (doesn’t really matter how she did it). this is not a story, no matter how much you want to make it one. I thought Glenn wanted you to be a respectable publication.

If you REALLY thought that you had to report on this, then the whole story should have been: “Local Texas woman purchases a gun and kills herself in the parking lot. Unclear at this point if it is a suicide or an accident. Left-wing media now wants to ban all forms of suicide – wants 5 day waiting period for guns, ropes, sleeping pills, and bridge jumping.”

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- BellaMia7
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:26am
  Absolutely, as if pain and suffering were gun related, and not humanity related. The woman’s preference has been pills and poison.
  
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jungle J
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:21am
it is her life…at least she didn’t go progressive and kill innocents.

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texanpatriot
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:18am
What a sad story. A wife, mother and grandmother who dies so suddenly and violently. When anyone dies it affects many people. When someone dies like this it is even more tragic. More than likely she left the store with an unloaded gun so, if so, something changed in the car.
It does raise a lot of questions: why would the wife of a pastor need a gun; why would she go alone; why a long way from her church? No doubt the anti-gun forces will use this story and others like it to try to tightly control guns and keep them out of law abiding citizens. It will not work but will keep them busy on this goal instead of global warming or other such campaigns.

God bless the family of this sweet lady. May the Lord bless and comfort them.

As an aside, hundreds of murders have been committed in Chicago by hand guns. Many times it was children who died and who killed. No stories are written and no investigation of how guns were available. Interesting. Tight gun controls will have no effect on this type of criminal nor any type for that matter.

Texas is considering an open carry law and I support it. This way the average citizen will carry his/her gun in full sight and the felons will have to hide theirs. Can’t wait…

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- Texaslockstar
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:21am
  I am not a fan of open carry. I do respect your openion and I do agree with the conceal carry law. I like the fact that no one knows who has a weapon. I would rather not let the person next to me know what I have one me. In my line of work I do carry. I hope I never have to use it to defend myself but if I do I dont want the person or people I am defending myself from to know that I have it till it’s too late for them.
  
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- BrutalTruth
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:06am
  Personally, I like the idea of open or concealed without license.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:28am
  @TEXANPATRIOT
  “Texas is considering an open carry law and I support it. This way the average citizen will carry his/her gun in full sight and the felons will have to hide theirs. Can’t wait…”
  
  I support open carry in TX
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:57am
  The only people who want open carry are those that are too lazy or too cheap to spend the money and jump through all the hoops like the others have to. They just want a free ride. Besides that, it is a tactical advantage to have it concealed. Like the others have said. If you want to carry, go through all the red tape like the rest of us you tightwads.
  
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- Hotconchick
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:03pm
  The murders here in Chicago are reported daily along with the gun confiscations just not on a national level except maybe once or twice that I have seen.
  
  Chicago generally in most tourist parts and on the North Side are pretty safe for a big city. These murders are mostly happening in the inner city which are the West and South sides which quite frankly you don’t go there if your white even in day light- I’d like to see some of these white lib actresses with the big mouths take a stroll there and see how they come out alive- which they won’t.
  I’m a Chicago native and have been to these parts of the city once both times for a sporting event or concert. That tells you people stay away from these parts of the city.
  
  Nothing is going to resolve this gun violence short of declaring a police state (which they won’t because that would be racial profiling and against the constitution that they hate until it suits them) and that’s the way our liberal politicians want it- they want to keep the slaves on the plantation and blame the man. They get their free stuff voters (even if the candidate is a nut or criminal) and everyone wins except the kids dieing.
  They are also trying to put an additional 25 dollar tax on guns and ammo in Cook County so the three gun shops are closing and moving to another county. Apparently it’s a tax to stop gun violence. LOL Our legal guns are taxed already up the wazoo.
  
  I wish we could move to Texas- lucky people there.
  
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- BrutalTruth
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:10pm
  Mil,
  So it’s not about what should be or shouldn’t be. To you it’s about “effort” envy. Since you had to jump through hoops in order to do something, then everyone else should also?
  
  Every so often, fortunately not very often, you say something that make my head explode. Pardon me while I clean things up.
  
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- BellaMia7
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:37pm
  Predators don ‘t determine what someone’s husband does for a living before preying on her. As long as there are predators, political or criminal, we will need guns to defend ourselves.
  
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- katie5
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:18pm
  Texas asks: “why would the wife of a pastor need a gun;”
  Are you serious? I am a pastor and my wife and I both carry concealed. Why are we different than anyone else? In fact we and churches are often seen as easy prey because of “no carry zones.” Shouldn’t we be able to protect ourselves and other people? By the way, my wife has been treated for “mental illness,” bi-polar condition / chemical imbalance. She is doing fine. We need to be able to keep protecting ourselves the same as anyone else.
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:16am
What a sad story :( God bless the people she left behind. Such a tragedy all around.

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ktmrider1
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:04am
see! see! we need to imediatly pass a law to ban pastors wifes from buying a gun

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:49pm
  If it wasn’t for the fact that they want to take all guns. I bet the morons would be trying to pass a law that puts strict penalties on suicide.
  
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Marsh626
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:58am
Banning guns doesn’t reduce suicides. People just find other ways to kill themselves. What this story is really about is the randomness of suicide. My friend’s mother was a total sweetheart. She committed suicide as well totally out of nowhere a few years ago… Some people just become depressed I guess, do a good job of hiding it, think they’ll never be happy again and kill themselves in a moment of selfish stupidity…

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- MrButcher
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:26am
  “You Can’t Buy a Gun When You’re Crying”
  
  Great song from Holly Golightly
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkfAh7oOh2U
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:51am
  Longer waiting periods don’t prevent accidents either. When the full investigation comes out I am positive it will show that this was an accident.
  
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florida123
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:53am
No law can prevent suicide. People do not just wake up one day and take their own life. People who take their own life are very mentally ill and they have been for a very long time! Sad that she didnt have anyone to reach out to or that someone did not recognize how ill she really was. We need to quit spending so much money on teaching people about reproduction and start teaching them about mental illness and what to do to help!

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- JohnLarson
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:01am
  People are impulsive creatures. I had a kid in my dorm building who hung himself the night his girlfriend broke up with him, years ago. Had he had a gun he might not have minded taking a few classmates and his girlfriend with him before his suicide.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:05am
  @JohnLarson…Hey idiot…had he had a gun he may not have taken others with him….You sir are the problem in this whole gun debate…Idiots like yourself really do NO good whatsoever…
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:37pm
  “Normal” people do not figure it’s OK to kill a bunch of people since I am killing myself.
  Actually, normal people would not even think they would think it…
  
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JohnLarson
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:52am
Maybe with a 5 day waiting period she would have cooled off.

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- upeopleneedtogetalife
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:21am
  No at least 2 weeks. Maybe even 2 yr so she really cold?
  
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rangerskippy
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:48am
had she hung herself, would we put a waiting period on buying rope?

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- piper60
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:15am
  Probably. Sharpton wants to go after knives, after all.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:23am
  @ Rangerskippy….Knives are next…http://www.theblaze.com/stories/al-sharpton-next-up-knife-control/
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:25am
  piper60…Sorry…I didn’t read your post ’til after I sent my comment…Good point…
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:28am
  I can just see it now after full Obamacare….
  Walmart cashier: Ma’am,it says here that you have a family member taking medication…I’m sorry but I can’t allow you to purchase that flatware set as it has sharp knives in it…NEXT…
  
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wydopnthrtl
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:48am
@ Taxpayer550 yes there are. Here are two: Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder.” 1Corinthians 3:16-17 “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.”

Her spirit is now in the hands of a just God. Maybe she knew what she was doing. Maybe she was out of her mind and didn’t. That’s for God to Judge. Not us.

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Newtowns-Third-Law
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:37am
Most people think that hearing bad outcomes like this will result in more laws against handguns. Its like free ammunition. So at great personal sacrifice, we stock up on those same items sure to be restricted in the near future by facist bureaucrats.

This endless series of personal misery tales and other sad stories purportedly due to firearms will only continue until we outlaw Bad News about guns. These scary stories only cause reactionary gun sales and continue the cycle of hoarding weapons to reassure the weakest and enrich the wealthiest.

Theoretically The Blaze and other gun sales affiliates could publish a dozen tales a day, every day of the year to keep the fear of Government restrictions and cash registers rolling. Fox says 37 new deaths from gunshot wounds occur in America every day!

Stop the Madness! Sponsor Federal restrictions against Sad Firearms Stories in the Media!

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- BellaMia7
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:28am
  It’s like 90 deaths a day from alcohol. People get messed up with they try and think statistically. For some, it hurts their brain.
  
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lisalake
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:23am
Sorry she decided to leave this world, but at least she did it responsibly; bought her own weapon of choice legally; didn’t threaten or harm anyone else; or steal the gun from anyone. Kudos to her.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:36am
  I guess we are now going to hear about every gun related death in America. Whether it is here on the The Blaze or in the Mass Media Bubble Gum Factory. I for one, don’t need to be reminded that guns can kill. I knew that already.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:13am
  1776FREEDOMOFSPEECH agree…. we will hear about every gun death. But never hear about a BG being shot.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:24am
  @REPUBLICORP
  
  Yeah, the great unspoken truth is too racially volatile for the great unwashed masses. Enquiring minds don’t need to know. Drink your Kool-aid and have a graham *******, everything is wonderful says the left elitists.
  
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- right field
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:11pm
  Sad but true. This death may have been an accident or an act of “reckless passion” in response to information that has not been made public. Like most things that human beings attempt to understand – having the facts is always a good idea. The entire “gun control” issue is being debated by the ‘Dem-wits’ without any attention to the facts. The MSM is incapable of telling the truth and the low information, emotion driven person is easily duped by these tactics. Marxist liberals, however, know the truth and are only interested in increasing their power and control.
  
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bigbear_awake
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:17am
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/the-theater-shooting-the-main-stream-media-didnt-focus-on-why/

There has been lots of talk over the past few months about gun control by the main stream media and liberals in general. This was anticipated following the shooting in an Aurora, Colorado theater at the opening of The Dark Knight Rises. It escalated over the next couple of months until the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Because so many young children were killed, the emotional response was increased, but I’ll bet most people never heard of a shooting that took place at a theater just two days after the one in Newtown and for good reason; it didn’t go with the liberal’s agenda.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/the-theater-shooting-the-main-stream-media-didnt-focus-on-why/#ixzz2GjI4g91A

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ares338
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:10am
Natural selection I guess. If there is a will there most certainly is a way!

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alias.stone
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:58am
Truly tragic and sad…My heart goes out the family. She’s now gone, but she left her loved ones to suffer with their grief.

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critterbait
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:51am
A guy did that here at a Walmart , and then to fix the problem they made store employee make sure any new gun sale was taken out of the store by that employee and locked in the trunk,, like everyone now who buys a gun is going to shoot themsleves in the parking lot ….ONE SIZE FITS ALL Dosent matter now cause Walmart dosent sale gun’s anymore…
If people want to OFF themsleves they will find away to do it ….

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- SingerGuy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:26pm
  When I bought a new handgun at Scheels recently, they wouldn’t let me touch the case until they had walked me out of the store. Only once we were on the sidewalk would the person hand me the gun. They wouldn’t even open up the case so I could verify that I was getting the XDs that I had said I wanted to buy.
  
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onegodinkansas
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:30am
“Others are questioning TX’s gun laws & whether a longer waiting period would have saved her life”. What kind of a reprobate even repeats such lunacy?

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:03am
  Others. The expert on every lefty news report. It is a psycho-babble trigger word. Makes you think “others” have some source of authority or expertise. The “Others” best friend is “Some say”.
  
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- SeekerEmerald
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:29am
  I agree with you, and that stood out to me as well. Well, I’ll add this: Still others make the logical argument that a longer waiting period would cost lives, as some purchasers will be delayed in receiving their only means of self defense from stalkers.
  
  I’m sure some people will LOVE to disagree, but it’s happened before, and will happen again. The waiting periods will not prevent crime, or even suicides, but will only delay the inevitable. If someone wants to kill themselves, and they simply CAN’T find another way, they will just wait out the waiting period.
  
  Again, what kind of society disarms law abiding citizens?
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:56am
  1776 . . . glad you brought that up. Some people say . . .
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:57am
  @Glennda
  
  Thanks Glennda
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:04pm
  @Glennda
  
  Are you really Rachel Maddow?
  
  If you are, it is not to late to come back over to the hetero side of the side of the fence.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:36pm
  1776 . . . Some people say you can’t handle your own posts.
  
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PalmettoLonghorn
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:28am
God’s peace to her and her family.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:28am
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And to think she won’t get to see Jesus………

I feel for you pastor, you know better the eternal damnation that comes with suicide. I’m sorry…….

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- Taxpayer550
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:46am
  There’s no scriptural basis to support your assertion.
  
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- 13a
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:57am
  That’s really not something you can prove with absolute certainty. And no one can judge and say what the end result will be. You gave the typical ignorant Christian explanation that suicide always leads to damnation. It’s that redneck backwoods hick brand of Christianity that hasn’t a clue about this life and the next. This is what happens when you let your preacher/pastor do your thinking for you.
  
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- Hoax And Chains
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:00am
  Only God Himself knows the hearts of His creation. That is not for you to judge who makes it and who doesn’t. Those who do make it to the Pearly Gates are going to be very surprised at who else makes it and who does not. God is not ours to place in a neat little box that we like to think we can understand. Nor are His ways ours to command.
  
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- goofey
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:21am
  There is no Jesus.
  
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- Dame.Felis.Catus
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:26am
  I don’t agree monkey, As stated in Ephesians 1:6-8 and Psalm 103:12 all sins of Christians are forgiven at the point of salvation. Only the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit which includes the permanent rejection of Jesus Christ as the Son of God, is unforgivable. In Matthew 12:31-32, Jesus says to the Pharisees, “Therefore I say to you, EVERY SIN and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come”
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:40am
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  You in the flesh are the temple of God.
  
  1 Corinthians 3:17:
  “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.”
  
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- Baddoggy
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:49am
  Monkey…You don’t understand your Bible even if you do read it. Christ alone for salvation. If she was saved,murder (in this case self murder) will not send her to hell. Rejection of Jesus Christ is the ONLY sin that is not forgiven…
  
  But I huess you feel superior by sending her to hell with your limited knowledge of God’s principles….good for you.
  
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- Onesimus
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:19am
  Then Samsom is in hell AND in the list of the heroes of the faith? I do not buy it.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:59am
  BADDOGGY . . . No, YOU don’t understand YOUR Bible.
  
  See how that works? Handy, isn’t it? Gosh, I can start wars, kill people, demand payment, anything I want to do, all because I can say what I just said.
  
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- BrutalTruth
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:05am
  Isn’t it rejecting the Holy Spirit that is unforgivable?
  Doesn’t the Bible tell us not to worry about someone’s salvation, but to simply and boldly spread the gospel?
  
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- roscoe569
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:17pm
  Do not be condescending .
  
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Toxic Pirate
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:27am
What a shame but you never know what goes on in one head

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- Ceefour
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:39am
  A person can be examined by five different psychiatrists and “diagnosed” with five different psychosis/neurosis problems…..
  
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- blanco5
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:06am
  In this case, it was a bullet. No sympathy for those who want to kill themselves. Suicide is such a selfish act. Just ask those who are left behind.
  
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13a
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:20am
I believe she shot herself on purpose. She could have been neck deep in some fraudulent activity and she felt there was no way out. Or she suffered from a mental illness and perhaps she was abused by her pastor husband inside the home. People don’t kill themselves without a reason.

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- virgie morgan
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:31am
  People kill themselves by accident all the time…if what you say is true, then why would she go through all the trouble to buy a gun? There were many ways she could have killed herself easier and quicker than going through all the regulations of buying a gun. It doesn’t make sense as a suicide.
  
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- 13a
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:47am
  No, it makes sense because this has happened where I live. And not just once or twice, but several times. After buying the gun and ammo, they either shoot themselves in the back (the indoor shooting range attached to the store) or they will do it in the parking lot. Yes, it’s possible that this woman accidentally shot herself but in my opinion she most likely did this on purpose.
  
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- saranda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:26am
  @virgie– you suggesting that twenty minutes in a gun store is more difficult than any method. seems to me to be easier than buying rope, figuring out the know, finding a location, setting up location, then acting. in this case, due to texas law, this was likely the easiest.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:48pm
  If there were other guns in the home my vote would be accident. None the less God wants to forgive us, just give him an excuse and he will. We have hard hearts and condemn each other where God would not think of it. His words, not mine.
  
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denkat56
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:11am
My condolences, but there has to be more to it than just this.

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- Lee_in_PA
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:28am
  I agree, but we may never find out the real reason. Apparently a 20 minute background check doesn’t prove much about the person’s mental state. But then again what really would?
  
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- Baerlin
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:02am
  It is not the duty of the gun shop to judge the mental state of the person buying the weapon. Nor would this come up in any back ground check. Thankfully, we are not subjected to that type of observation yet. Once the government gets that kind of insight into who we are, then it is too late. I understand what people want in sight of CT, but do you really want a “Minority Report” type of society?
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:08am
God be with the Pastor and his family at this time of loss.

The left will use this as one more means to inflame the cry for disarming the nation and the assault on the Constitution by undermining the second-amendment.

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- virgie morgan
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:28am
  I agree. They will latch onto every incident they can to push their agenda. if she had not bought the gun, she would have found another way to kill herself….too many questions here. I think the gun went off accidently because if she was that desperate to kill herself, she would not have waited to go buy a gun to do it…she would have used pills, or some other means. I think she bought the gun for protection in light of the current disarming of Americans and it went off while she was loading it. But it will never be investigated as an accident…it will be used to take the guns away from the rest of us. This whole gun control thing is NOT about deterring violence..it’s about CONTROLLING the people by disarming them. They know they cannot scoop us up and move forward with their dictatorship communist country without taking our guns first. People need to start addressing this for what it is…it’s about DISARMING AMERICANS SO WE CAN’T FIGHT BACK…not about preventing violence in any way because once they have our guns, THEY will commit the most acts of violene this country has ever seen.
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:02am
  @ SNOW and VIRGIE~~~
  You are so right! It is all about getting our guns. Any stories on death by drugs (legal and illegal) lately? How about death by train, car, plane? How about death by stabbing, beating? No???? Imagine that. How about death by deceit? That would be from our “elected leaders”, wouldn’t it?
  
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- US_SOLDIER
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:56am
  I sense that this was intentional. Because it is legal to buy ammunition and a friearm at the same time in Texas. But what leads me to my conclusion is why she would take the time to load the firearm in the parking lot immediately after purchasing it. I dont see a plausible reason for doing that. That part sticks out to me immediately, although we will all have to wait for the full story to come out. Simply my opinion
  
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