California parents act heroically when gunman fires upon family, killing two

[SecularMotion]

Source: CNN

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A father and mother showed heroism when a gunman opened fired inside their California home before dawn Saturday, but two members of the family couldn't overcome their wounds, Inglewood police said.

The mother ran from the house carrying her youngest child, though she was shot in both legs, in an "extraordinary rescue attempt," police said. The 4-year-old boy, however, was shot in the head and later died in surgery. The mother was in critical but stable condition Saturday afternoon.

Inside the house, the father used his body as a shield in trying to protect the other three children.

Despite the father's efforts, the gunfire wounded two of his children: a 6-year-old boy in the pelvis and a 7-year-old girl in the chest. Both were in critical but stable condition, police said. The father later died in surgery of multiple gunshot wounds.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/20/us/california-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

[Trunk Monkey]

1. Did you wish to make some point by posting this current events piece? NT

[enlightenment]

3. What is your point?

DU does report on tragic events. If you don't like reading about them, there is a little 'x' that will allow you to hide the posts.

[redwitch]

4. I would imagine the point is "How incredibly sad for this family".

What did you you think the poster was trying to say?

[Sherman A1]

6. ........

[Kingofalldems]

7. Guns eh?

[jpak]

9. More Gun Fun

That's the point

yup

[George II]

10. Late Breaking News..............

[Tunkamerica]

12. wow. must be fun to be so heartless.

this is maybe the worst comment i've read on DU in some time. Just the mindset of the person who could even come up with it must be so... sad? disturbed? scary?

[SemperEadem]

13. the post makes way more sense than your response did...

NT

[JayhawkSD]

14. I think it made a very touching point

Parents not thinking about their own lives and trying to protect their children. That is a beautiful thing. Here's a man with a gun and Dad doesn't run, he throws himself in front of his kids. There is real love in this world. That's a point, I think; that's an important point.

[Trunk Monkey]

17. I want to apologize for not making my self clear (Although I expect the OP got it)

The OP is known in the gun control forum for “Google dumping” various stories of illegal gun use and then trying to extrapolate that all gun ownership is bad from the criminal misuse of firearms by a minority of both the society as a whole and the subset of law abiding gun owners.

I suspect that he/she is doing so here hoping to find a somewhat more sympathetic audience.


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[Paladin]

18. 65% Of Your Posts Are In Gun Control/RKBA.

You've made yourself a lot clearer than you intended........

[Trunk Monkey]

19. So almost half of my posts AREN'T in the gun control forum

was there a point you wished to make?

[SecularMotion]

23. Do you consider yourself a gun lobbyist?

[Trunk Monkey]

24. No, I consider myself to be a progressive who believes that a law abiding citizen

should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they should own a fire arm and of what type.

Do you consider your self a Brady Campaigner? If so, do you actually donate to them?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

27. What progressive issues do you support?

[Trunk Monkey]

28. Single payer health care for one

equal rights for marriage and getting the HELL out of Afghanistan (Which should be an American issue not a Progressive one)

IMO single payer health care which would (clearly) give better access the mental health care may well have prevented this tragedy

[Trunk Monkey]

25. FWIW I note that YOU have more posts in GC/RKBA than I do

as a matter of fact you have almost as many , if not more, posts in GC/RKBA than I have posts period.

Using the normal DU metric what can be infered from this?

[SecularMotion]

26. You've caused enough disruption in this thread.

This sub-discussion belongs in Meta.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

29. And this thread belonged in GCRKBA

And you are quite aware of it

[valerief]

2. How awful. When I first read this, all I could think was "another cops gone wild" tragedy. nt

[Sherman A1]

5. Sad

Must have been horrible.

[classof56]

8. This is tragic and gives lie (yet another one)

To Rmoney's statement that 2-parents families don't experience gun violence. It will be interesting to learn what prompted this horrible event, but meanwhile, I am sickened and saddened by such a seemingly senseless crime. Best wishes to the survivors. Hope the two children heal and are able to deal with the aftermath.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

[defacto7]

11. How horrible

I would do the same, but since it's never happened to me how would I know. It's one of those primal split second decisions that is impossible to fathom.

Yesterday I was in a national park with my family when a couple of guys in the parking lot got into a fight over one cutting the other off. It started with one of them giving the other the finger, then one got out of his car and called the other guy out, screaming he'd beat him up. The other guy stayed in his car but reached over to his glove box. I don't know what get into my mind, but I went over to the car of the guy who was out screaming. He had 3 cross country bikes on the back of his car right over his licence plate so it looked like I was looking at his plate (which I actually was). The guy ran over to me, started yelling at me, asking what I was doing, at which point I started a conversation about his bikes. I just started asking stupid questions to distract him, the other guy squealed out, left, and it was over. The guy who was yelling had a woman, probably his wife/partner and 1 kid in his car.

All this over.. what? What's the use? At what possible cost? The world's gone mad.

[bitchkitty]

15. Suspect evidently killed himself:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/21/us/california-shooting/index.html

[aikoaiko]

16. Sad story. Is the motive known yet?

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the motive was born out a mental illness of some type.

[Blue_Tires]

20. So was he a friend/relative or a complete random stanger?

[mwdem]

21. From what I've heard today, he was a neighbor.

He and the family rented houses on the same property, and he was getting evicted for not payinghis rent for quite awhile. For some reason, he blamed the family, and went on a rampage against them. So sad...

[maxsolomon]

22. lived in the cottage on their property

unusual relationship, but still, known to the victims.