Slain Indiana Family Pulled Gun on Attackers

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http://www.gunguys.com/?p=1153




After we reported on the slaying of the Albarran family in Indiana (in which two men, Desmond Turner and James Stewart, are accused of killing seven family members, including three children, during a botched robbery), we got three or four emails from gun guys saying basically that if that family had had a gun to protect themselves, they would still be alive today. Here’s a real email we got from a gun guy named “Allen” after we reported on the slaying.

'An armed society is a very polite society. Yes there is misuse of firearms. Did that family in IN have a firearm in the house for self protection? Most likely not, or the man/women of the house may have been able to protect themselves. It works both ways when it comes to firearms.'

But then we saw this AP article in today’s New York Times. Apparently evidence in the house shows that one of the family members did have a gun. And tragically, it didn’t help.

'The two men allegedly targeted the house on the city’s east side because they believed it held a safe filled with money and cocaine, according to documents filed by prosecutors. But the rumor of money and valuables was fiction, a deputy police chief has said.

Stewart searched for the safe upstairs but found nothing, then went downstairs, where he found that Magno Albarran, 29, had pulled a gun on Turner, according to the documents.

Stewart told investigators that he fired at Albarran and that Turner then ‘’started shooting everybody.'’

As Turner continued the rampage, Stewart said he pleaded with him ‘’not to ‘go back there’ and not to shoot the kids,'’ referring to the bedrooms where the bodies of three children were found, according to the affidavit filed in Marion County Criminal Court.

Albarran was killed along with his 22-year-old sister, Flora Albarran, who was pulled into the house around 10 a.m. when she arrived to pick up her 5-year-old son, Luis.'

This family did have a gun to “protect” them, and not only did it not do that, it seems likely from (this account) that if the gun hadn’t been pulled on the two robbers, they would have left without finding anything of value to steal in the house. The money and the drugs they were seeking in the house weren’t there at all, according to police. It’s not enough that the gun didn’t “protect” those three children (as the gun guys claimed it would have). According to this account, it may have caused their death.

There’s one more note to this story. The guns used by Stewart and Turner were, according to evidence found at the scene, assault rifles.
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[Mythsaje]

1. One more great argument for gun control!

If you're going to fire at a threat, make sure you're a good enough shot to actually HIT it.