Posted on 06/28/2016 5:38:10 AM PDT by servo1969
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls said a family argument led to the shooting Friday evening at a home outside the Houston suburb of Fulshear. Christy Sheats, 42, convened the meeting in the living room of the home that was attended by her husband Jason Sheats, and her daughters, Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17, according to the sheriff's office.
"During that meeting, Christy Sheats held up a gun and shot both girls," the sheriff's office said.
Jason Sheats and the daughters ran outside where Madison Sheats collapsed and died. Jason Sheats ran to the end of the cul-de-sac.
Christy Sheats shot Taylor Sheats one more time on the street. A witness told investigators Christy Sheats then went back into the home, reloaded her gun and shot Taylor once more.
When officers arrived, they saw Christy Sheats shooting one of her daughters in the street, the sheriff's office said.
An officer fatally shot Christy Sheats after she refused to obey commands to drop her handgun. Taylor Sheats was taken to a Houston hospital, where she died.
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If I had a family member who had mental problems that resulted in a 911 call and was on psychotropic drug, I might ditch the gun or try to hid them in a place where they couldn’t find them.
Nevermind. It started.
She had crazy eyes.
I can’t imagine the amount of evil that must have invaded her soul.
At this level of evil, she could get a gun from anywhere.
That’s the first thing I thought, as well.
Why the heck didn’t he tackle her? Especially once the girls ran outside? He ran outside, too, and kept running, to the end of the cul de sac. Left those girls defenseless against cray-zie mom.
I know people on psychotropic drugs. Their personality changes. They act insanely and don’t remember anything the next day. I find it frightening but some people are desperate to numb themselves and the family doesn’t interfere because the “Doctor” prescribed the medication and they never question a “Doctor”.
Albert Brooks: Hoover Institute
Although the Declaration of Independence characterizes “the pursuit of happiness”—along with life and liberty—as an inalienable right, the protection of which is government’s primary task, Brooks finds in the Declaration an obligation to foster the pursuit of happiness. He urges conservatives to unite goal with tone by becoming “happy warriors” fighting for the institutions that, according to both scholarly research and traditional wisdom, make for happy lives: faith, family, community, and meaningful work.
But doesn’t the free enterprise system promote materialism and hedonism? Brooks replies that the confusion of love of things and physical pleasure with happiness in the fullest sense is not specific to capitalism but is a mistake as old as the hills. In America as elsewhere, education—particularly at home and in religious institutions—must teach that people come before things and that achieving material prosperity is not the essence of happiness but a means by which the happiness that comes from faith, family, community and work is pursued.
http://www.hoover.org/research/conservative-heart
My point isn’t the gun, it’s the medication.
Look at post 15, you missed it.
Wanna bet she was a Registered Democrat? Also, perhaps not relevant but then maybe even more.
You are probably right.
She had crazy eyes.
Exactly, just like the Dallas County DA, crazy as hell....
As the wife initiated it, she is to blame. But unless there are some circumstances that I can’t imagine, he idoes come off as a wuss.
I’d bet the mother was on psychotropic drugs, but that will never be addressed. It never is.
Exactly. MSN gets too much money from big pharma.
Of course if he had done something, he would have to fight off charges of domestic abuse, but I’d hope that physically confronting your wife while she is trying to shoot your family would be excusable even in places outside of Texas. And even if isn’t, I’d rather live with those consequences than have to live with what he will be living with.
Exactly what I was about to post.
The girls shoulda packed. The best way to stop a bad family member with a gun is a good family member with a gun.
Well put, I would add that the measurable bits of econ are wanting in that a high trust society is part of the wealth effect. Of course in our ever worsening society wealth is measured by how big a house you can finance in a neighborhood where the purely rational economic actors won’t loot you if the power goes off.
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I get that. But what does it have to do with conservatism?
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