by digby
“It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away, but that’s exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns.” — Christy Sheats, Facebook, March 2016
Around 5 p.m. local time, officers began receiving 911 calls about shots fired in the city of Fulshear, just to the west of Houston, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.
When they arrived on scene, they found Madison Sheats, 17, and her sister, Taylor, 22, had been shot.
One of the girls died on the street, but another was flown to a hospital in critical condition but could not be saved.
On Saturday, the Sheriff’s office identified the girls’ mother, Christy Sheats, 42, as the shooter.
“The armed shooter was also in the street and, after refusing to drop her weapon, was shot and killed by a Fulshear officer,” the Sheriff’s office said.
“This has been a family disturbance,” Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls told reporters, “and it appears that the mother ended up shooting her two children.”
I have no words. But this is our sick, twisted gun culture in action. Too bad about all the carnage and the corpses but this is just the price we pay for freedom amirite?
James Madison was a helluva guy but that drafting error in the Bill of Rights was a real whopper.
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