For one thing, why wasn't the mom carrying? For another, why was the mom's gun and magazine not already assembled and ready for fire. And why weren't the 16-year-old kids armed and ready to provide backup fire?
"...robbed or attempted break-in five times since 2015..."
Where did this happen?
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Why wasn’t the dad carrying...
Leaving out the firearms-related aspects, why weren’t the kids noting down things like car make and model, color and license plates? A $300 point-and-shoot camera with 40x zoom would have gotten enough detail to nail down the make and model, and perhaps the plates as well.
Any thoughts on how this family could have done better, if they were able to retrace their steps?
No description of the perps. It’s as if the Herald doesn’t want them to be caught.
Shooting in the face could be to send a message to someone. I did not see a description of the perps.
Headline is deceiving. Easily could be read that the wife and kids were shot dead.
The gun was not ready to fire. They bought it, and for ‘safety’ kept it unloaded.
You keep the gun loaded in the house. Period. I’m sorry these people got bamboozled into their situation.
Shooting someone in the face multiple times tells me the perps were known and it was personal. I’m calling ENVY as the motive.
It was in North Carolina.
Blame the anti-gun propaganda for the family not having reddily available protection.
I have seen many messages that the only way to keep guns in the home is unloaded and locked up.
One of my wife’s friends owns a Chinese restaurant.
After paying staff, insurance , taxes, fees licenses, purchasing inventory and supplies, I think they clear about as much as an engineer with 5 or 6 years experience.
Not a lot for the cash investment to have a business and all the long hours and headaches it has.
Dreadful. RIP.
Oh my goodness...at first I thought it was the wife and children that were killed. I’m sorry they lost there father and husband. And, in Durham too.
The wife was not assembling the gun. It was not disassembled, it was not loaded and she was trying to load a magazine. Big difference, but the big problem is why they bought guns but did not have them loaded and ready to use?
A gun is of no use if it is in a drawer and not loaded, as those poor people have now learned.
Indeed. Having a gun means training how to use, and training to make your mind clear on when to use it.
I have no doubt, particularly depending on the neighborhood, these Chinese business owners would be targeted because they own businesses. That’s how it is in the “the hood.”
i want to know why the parents, after being robbed several times, didn’t have enough situational awareness to notice two cars each filled with people, and then drive by without stopping. Or the children sitting watch didn’t notice the cars. Or why there was no video system they could scan the street with.
Sometimes some members of a family will collude to kill another. You could almost hope that is what happened here, and that there aren’t murdering robbers at large. Or you could hope that such a betrayal didn’t happen.
This is a tragic story. Sad.