While Murder-Suicide Stat Is Alarming, It’s Only Half The Story

By Tom Knighton

For all their sins, The Trace doesn’t exactly make up data. While they’re a blatantly anti-gun “news” source, they don’t manufacture information or falsify statistics to get their story.

However, they’re notorious for only presenting half the story. The anti-gun half.

Take, for example, one of their latest which argues that murder-suicides using firearms are a daily occurrence.

On Saturday, a 45-year-old man fatally shot his parents at their home in eastern Kentucky and then drove to an apartment where he shot and killed his girlfriend and her mother before turning the gun on himself.

Joseph Nickell, the gunman, had a history that included domestic violence and substance abuse charges. But the grisly murder spree still came as a shock to some who knew the family.

“What devastates me to the core, is I can visually see and hear her trying to talk her son down” before Nickell began his rampage, a friend of his mother’s posted on Facebook. “Like any family, they too fought their own demons, but Joe loved his family.”

Murder-suicide by gun occurs, on average, every day in America. Through the first six weeks of 2018, according …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms