Today's Eternal Sadness

From the suburbs of Houston:

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas—Deputies said a 69-year-old homeowner, who died after he was shot by his own gun during a scuffle with a burglar, begged for his life.

Prosecutors said the suspect, Daniel Durham, has admitted to shooting the victim, who was later identified as Don Frazier, a preacher and writer who has made numerous TV appearances.

The crime happened around Friday 1:15 a.m. at Frazier’s home in the 4200 block of Amber Lake Dr. in northwest Harris County.

Sheriff’s deputies said the preacher and his wife heard a noise downstairs in their garage—it was the sound of their generator turning on. Deputies said when the preacher went down to investigate, somehow Durham managed to take the homeowner’s gun.

From Brady Campaign:

Where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths.

• Gun death rates are 7 times higher in the states with the highest compared with the lowest household gun ownership. (Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, 2009).
• An estimated 41% of gun-related homicides and 94% of gun-related suicides would not occur under the same circumstances had no guns been present (Wiebe, p. 780). 
• Household gun ownership levels vary greatly by state, from 60 percent in Wyoming to 9 percent in Hawaii (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001).

And the kicker?  Don Frazier (hereinafter known as "the dead good guy with a gun") was a former cop.  He was a chaplain, but he wore the uniform and he carried a badge, and that means he was trained in weapons and tactics, and well aware of the dangers of confronting a perp.  

Obviously, we don't know what all happened, but what we do know - the one fact that we have to own up to and stop deliberately ignoring - is that if there's no gun in that situation, Don Frazier's probably still alive.

Need another kicker - all you steely-eyed pragmatic capitalists?  Doesn't it make you wonder what's happening to certain of your insurance premiums because of your blind unwillingness to recognize and deal with avoidable risk?

When you so eagerly jump into bed with the Ammosexuals, does it just never cross your mind that you're actually insisting on making it possible for outfits represented by the NRA to shift their liability burden onto the families of gun violence victims - the victims you're helping to create every time you vote for a Gun Fondler?