Christy Sheats was a vocal second amendment advocate. She recently shot and killed her two daughters before being shot and killed by a police officer.
"At around 5 p.m., officers started receiving 911 calls about shots fired in the city of Fulshear, just west of Houston, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.
When they arrived on the scene, they found Madison Sheats, 17, and her 22-year-old sister, Taylor, had been shot.
Madison died on the street, while Taylor was flown to a hospital, where she also died...
The girls’ mother, Christy Sheats, 42, 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.
“Our officer was forced to take action,” the Fulshear Police Department wrote onFacebook, without identifying the officer involved. “He was not injured and no deputies were injured.”
“This was a tragic and unfortunate occurrence and we are deeply saddened by the results,” police added...
“It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away,” she wrote in March, “but that’s exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns.””*
Truly no more or less dangerous than crazy people with a house full of knives, or alcohol, or gasoline or children.
If a person is crazy, legitimately, are they not afforded the right to a means of defense?
I just wonder if people fully understand what the suggestion is here... we're suggesting that mental health issues warrant the limitation of rights.
Are we sure we want to venture into such territory? And if so, what for crazies who possess something far more important than a gun; i.e. children.
Will we limit their rights as well? I understand the desire to be proactive through policy, I really do, but we do live in the same country that institutionalized and forcefully sterilized black people on the grounds that they were dumb and imbecilic. One needn't invent a slippery slope here, we've been there, done that, living victims have the t-shirts and so forth.
I do not think that those suggesting mental health screenings for gun ownership are doing so with that in mind or with malice, that is not what I'm suggesting and yes, I know that's an extreme example. I just wonder if people realize the implications of limiting the rights of those with mental health issues.
We can't demand that society not stigmatize suffers while simultaneously doing just that through policy.
