Ten Victims

<ten victims>Doesn't this tell you what we MUST do?

“This was 20-something miles of terror.” - Alabama state Sen. Harri Anne Smith, quoted in USA TODAY. The FBI's homicide data, collected from police agencies across the USA, is only as good as the organizations that provide the information. Many police departments don’t submit all their crimes, or else they mislabel them so they aren't categorized correctly. Florida doesn't submit homicide data to the FBI at all; Nebraska and the District of Columbia only started doing so in 2009.

Why would police 

submit incorrect information? df

The result: A number of high-profile mass killings aren't included in the FBI figures. Among those is the fatal shooting of 10 people in Samson, Ala., in 2009. Michael K. McLendon abruptly quit his job at a sausage plant and the next week shot his mother and set her body aflame. McLendon drove 12 miles to his uncle’s house, where he shot and killed five people on the front porch, then killed four other family members and strangers.

It is obvious that he premeditated this murder since he drove 12 miles to the scene.

If any of the victims had been armed 

this would not have happened!

Among the victims were his uncle, cousin, grandmother, and an 18-month-old girl. After being pursued by police, McLendon ended his spree at his former workplace, where co-workers had said he had been a reliable employee, killing himself inside the sausage plant. In a letter he mailed to authorities, he said he was depressed and frustrated that he would never become a police officer or a Marine.

Frustration at various events 

is usually a motive for the shooters crimes!

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AP/Los Angles Times, Barbara Davidson
Firefighters remove debris from the house where a man dressed as Santa opened fire at a Christmas party before setting the house ablaze.

    December 2008
    Covina, Calif.
    Victims: 9
    Weapon: Gun

“I heard the sound and saw the blood on the floor ... and I just ran.” - shooting victim Katrina Yuzefpolsky, quoted by USA TODAY

Facing a divorce and having lost his job, Bruce Pardo, 45, paid a seamstress $300 to make him an extra-large Santa Claus suit. On Dec. 18, Pardo’s divorce was final. On Christmas Eve, clad in the Santa outfit and carrying four guns and a device to spray fuel, he went to his ex-wife’s parents’ home, where her extended family had gathered.

He lost his job and his divorce was final. One failure would not normally cause a man to commit a murder, but when two or more drastic things happen, many of us would also take come sort of action.

He barged in on the festivities just before midnight and began shooting, killing his ex, her parents, three siblings and two sisters-in-law. Pardo then began spraying fuel through the house, igniting an explosion and subsequent blaze that killed a 17-year-old nephew. A getaway car, plane ticket and $17,000 in cash indicated that Pardo had planned to flee, but when he was badly burned by the fire, he drove 40 miles to his brother's house, where he fatally shot himself.

Here the murder 

was due to him being divorced.

The fact that he ignited a fire indicates that 

this was a premeditated attack!

He was also prepared to flee. 

When he was hurt,

 he could not stand it, 

so took his own life.

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AP November 2009
    Jupiter, Fla.
    Victims: 4
    Weapon: Gun

“I've been waiting 20 years to do this.” - Shooter Paul Merhige's statement to his family, quoted by the Associated Press

Paul Merhige, a 35-year-old with a history of mental illness and conflicts with his family, was invited to Thanksgiving dinner with 16 other relatives. He arrived late but stayed quiet, according to police reports. Around 10 p.m., he went out to his car and retrieved a gun, then allegedly said he had "waited 20 years" to do it. He shot his 33-year-old twin sisters, Lisa Knight, who was pregnant, and Carla Merhige. He also killed his aunt, Raymonde Joseph, 76, and tracked his 6-year-old cousin Makayla, to her bedroom, where she was killed. Two others, including Makayla’s father, were injured.

Mental illness and family conflict 

is often a motive for murders.

"he waited 20 years" for his actions.

Talk about family conflicts;

This is the ultimate action!

Merhige fled the home, prompting a six-week manhunt through the Florida Keys, where he was tracked to a hotel after the case was featured on America’s Most Wanted. The trial revealed Merhige’s history of institutionalization, battles with anxiety disorders and threats to "slit his sister's throat" (which prompted protective orders on both sides that later were dropped).

Again we see that the 

shooter had mental problems. 

This not to say, however, that a gun dealer must not sell to a mentally unstable person. 

He is not able to judge the buyer's condition. NO restrictions 

should be allowed against gun ownership.

Since he threatened his sister, 

it was most definitely pre-meditated.

Protective orders" are worthless,

 as it stops no one intent 

on a crime against the victim. 

The police need to take further action to stop the event, 

possibly entry into protective custody or the jailing of the shooter due to his threat.

His parents, who had supported him with an apartment and car, refused to hire an attorney for their oldest child. To avoid the death penalty – and because his mental illness would have complicated such a sentence – Merhige is serving seven consecutive life terms.

Is it normal to 

"support a 35-year-old 

with an apartment and car." 

Naturally they 

"refused to hire an attorney" for such a son. Wouldn't you? 

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MASS KILLING VICTIMS BY AGE, HOW KILLED
77% of mass killings involve a gun. But killers also have used everything from their hands to saws to baseball bats.
Nearly one-third of victims were under age 18.
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 NEARLY 3 OUT OF 4 OF THE GUNS INVOLVED WERE HANDGUNS
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GUNS AT HAND
A killer wielding a multiple-magazine assault rifle is the exception. More typically, the closest available weapon is used. These are the guns killers carried with them, regardless of whether it was used. Stashes in cars, at home, etc. are not included.
ALL HANDGUNS
72.9%
49.6%
Semiautomatic
handgun
22.4%
handgun/
revolver
0.9%
Automatic
(assault) pistol
ALL RIFLES
18.5%
9.5%
single-shot rifle
8.6%
Semiautomatic rifle
0.4%
Automatic rifle
SHOTGUN
8.6%
8.6%
shotgun
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The Hartford Courant
The car -- driven by Mary Neliz Jimenez -- crashed into a tree, split in half and burst into flames, killing five. Kevin Cales, Jimenez's estranged boyfriend, was chasing them at the time. He was later killed in prison.

    May 2006
    Berlin, Conn.
    Victims: 5
    Weapon: Car

“…she knew he was following her. She feared for her life.” - Mary Neliz Jimenez's friend, Christina Galarza, quoted in The Hartford Courant.

Wouldn't you drive 

at whatever speed is necessary 

if you feared for your life?

Family members said Mary Neliz Jimenez was scared for her life. Months before her death, the 21-year-old mother of one had applied for a restraining order against her former boyfriend, but failed to appear for a hearing, and the case was dismissed.

Again "a restraining order" fails the victim.

When she "failed to appear for a hearing" 

it showed that the killer had threatened her.

Early on the morning of May 27, Kevin Cales began following Jimenez, who had left her job at a local nightclub and was driving a car with four co-workers inside. Police said vehicle speeds exceeded 120 mph. Jimenez lost control of her car, jumped a curb and crashed into trees. The car was split in half, and the back half caught fire, killing all inside.

It is no wonder at speeds exceeding 120 miles per hour would cause her to loose control.

And no wonder that all were killed.

Cales’ car also crashed nearby, but no passengers were killed. Cales was convicted on five counts of first-degree manslaughter. Soon after his sentencing, he was killed in prison by a relative of one of the crash victims.
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John Moses Ragin is charged with killing 32-year-old Crystal Ragin and her three children, then setting the building on fire. The couple's missing 5-year-old son was found with family members in South Carolina.

    August 2011
    Newport News, Va.
    Victims: 4
    Weapon: Knife

Notice that many of the killers set fire to the building where the shooting took place!

Should't Crystal have had a firearm?  

She could have saved herself and her children!

“Petitioner fears for her life, is afraid to live with respondent.” - Crystal Ragin's protective order, quoted by the (Newport News) Daily Press

Crystal Ragin, an Army sergeant serving at Fort Eustis, told a judge that she feared for her life and didn't know what would happen to her and her four children once she left the courthouse. Earlier, she had testified against her husband in a domestic abuse case accusing him of picking her up and throwing her to the floor.

Now why couldn't the judge 

have taken action to protect 

Crystal when 

she feared for her life?

The killer was violent with Crystal previously so she had every right to 

kill him in self defense!

The judge issued the protective order that day barring John Ragin from having any contact with Crystal. But before it could be served, the Ragins got into a dispute at Crystal’s home. Police arriving to that call for help couldn’t find the order in the system and let John Ragin go. The next afternoon, Crystal and three of her children were found stabbed to death. One child, John Ragin’s biological son, was left unharmed and taken by John Ragin to South Carolina after the murders.

This shows what can happen when 

the law 

does not take action 

with the "protective order."

A sheriff’s deputy arriving to serve the protective order 24 hours after it was issued found police searching Ragin’s Newport News home. Ragin, who was arrested in South Carolina, was found guilty of capital murder but spared the death penalty. He is serving life in prison.

You see, a court order means nothing 

with or with out it being served. 

Ragin was bold enough to search Ragin's home.

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EXPLORE THE DATA: U.S. MASS KILLINGS SINCE 2006
Mass killings -- four or more killed in one incident -- happen across the U.S.
Type of mass killing
Family killing
Public killing
Robbery/burglary
Other
How victims were killed
Shooting
Stabbing
Blunt force
Smoke inhalation/burns
Filter
Number of victims
4 to 32 victims
265 CASES
out of 265 mass killings

This shows that most killings are committed by people with 

weapons other than guns! 

Politicians and some people 

always call for gun control after a killing!

Does this mean that 

we must have knife, blunt weapons, 

or fire control?

Of course not!

 When the politicians have confiscated our guns as they did in Hitler's Germany we will have become slaves without any power.

Remember

Unarmed citizens=slavery=more crime

Armed citizens = freedom=little crime

Date Place State How Type Victims

Dec 15, 2014 Souderton Pa. Shooting Family killing 6
Dec 1, 2014 Cheat Lake W.Va. Shooting Other 4
Nov 21, 2014 Cleveland Ohio Shooting Family killing 5
Nov 15, 2014 Springfield Mo. Shooting Other 4
Oct 26, 2014 Cadiz Ky. Shooting Family killing 4
Oct 24, 2014 Marysville Wash. Shooting Public Killing 4
Oct 8, 2014 Guilderland N.Y. Shooting Family killing 4
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Mass Killings Happen About Every Two Weeks.

Does this statistic prove that 

all citizens should be armed 

instead of the politician's gun control? 

The police normally 

take about 10 minutes to respond; 

a gun only takes seconds!

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