DeLucia, Jr., who worked as a local auto mechanic, was also a hoarder and the house was packed with tools and other car repair items, Fitzpatrick added.
At the extreme, could this be a “failure to launch” child, now 57 years old, that continued to live at home being provided for by mom unable or or unwilling to provide for themselves, and finally was being forced to provide for themselves at age? Did the family make overtures to get the man mental help for decades only to be rebuffed by mom or the murderer? Now that mom was gone, the siblings were forced to deal with it?
The article doesn’t contain enough information to draw conclusions.
Yeah, the article is fairly threadbare. You bring up some good questions, too.
The ol’ Chris Chan special, ladies and gentlemen. How does this keep happening?
Grief is a hell of a drug.
He was afraid of the becoming homeless part
We (Americans) will never give up our guns, especially if you are working class.
We should continue to help fund to uphold our 2A rights.
Gun safety and training should be an option for everyone.
Do you really think Gun Safety Training would have prevented this one?
Everyone who makes this absurd argument knows it won’t. They just want to keep their stupid toys and don’t care about the lives it costs, so they muddy the waters to delay actual action on preventing these needless deaths.
- “Just arm and train everyone bro [so we can keep being the problem].”
- “Just use ‘clean coal’ bro [so we can keep making billions destroying the climate].”
- “Just make more plastic recycling plants bro [so we can keep littering the environment with mountain ranges’ worth of single-use trash]”.
- “Just use EVs bro [so we don’t have to reevaluate how fundamentally terrible car-centrism is]”.
Every time there’s a systemic problem in the US, someone shows up to make a proposal that puts a very small band-aid on the problem at best while making it much more deeply entrenched in the long-term and consequently more of a problem (in the above examples, we have respectively more guns and gun culture, more investment put into generating energy via coal, more infrastructure for plastic, and more car infrastructure). Basically, “I don’t want my guns taken away ever, so the solution I’m going to come up with is that everyone has them and so the actually effective solution of restricting them becomes literally impossible.” Their solution doesn’t just not work; it actively causes more deaths while serving their own self-interest.
I honestly don’t think, in this specific case, it matters either way. This was a murder-suicide by an insane person. They could just as well have used poison or a knife.
He should’ve started with himself
In before someone reports this - the person DID kill themselves, therefore this comment isn’t advocating self-harm, so much as “I wish the harm had ONLY been to themselves”
Yes, thank you
It’s not ‘fatally shooting’, it’s killing or murdering.
Edit: lowered the bodily functions over the life threshold using a portable metal ejecting tool.
Ok “shot dead”, is that ok?
Your wording actually gives less info.
Re: your edit.
Fatally shot literally means “shot dead”, but with a bigger word.
I know. It’s just that fatally shot is what policemen or “good guys” gets, a bad guy will get the “killed” headline. That’s what I wanted to convey.
Can’t put my finger on it, but I feel we have a word for fatally shooting people.
I guess we’re avoiding the word gun in titles now…
What term would you use that’s more accurate than ‘fatally shoots’? The term ‘murdered’ would simply obfuscate the method of killing.
No but if could have legal consequences. Murder is used both colloquially and legally, and accusing someone of being a murderer or committing murder if they have not been found guilty at trial could be considered, when issued by a news agency of any kind especially, as libel. That’s why you see news agencies using the word “allegedly” all the time. Because legally speaking, they are innocent until proven guilty, even if they were caught red-handed.
You unable to see the word “shoot” in the title? I doubt it was a blow dart…erm… oh wait. That’s a gun too!
I don’t think it was a crossbow, or long bow, or a water…damn it. Keep coming back to “gun”.
If you can’t discern that it’s a gun from the title, there’s not much to do.
What else can you fatally shoot someone with if the title is trying to avoid blaming guns?
