Hold your nose and jump -
Jan. 27th, 2009 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgIt's Rabbit Hole Day.
It also has the distinction of carrying two REALLY awful news stories as well.
Five children under age 10 and their mother were fatally shot inside a Wilmington home this morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police said that the assailant appeared to be the children's father and that he apparently committed suicide after faxing a letter to KABC Channel 7. Channel 7 then contacted authorities, police said.
The LAPD was dispatched to the 1000 block of McFarland Avenue at 8:22 a.m. Officer Sam Park said the man apparently committed suicide.
The story is damning. Kaiser union employees, both husband and wife - fired - according to the letter they faxed to KABC. (Oh, and it's likely they might have been regular listeners of KABC Talk Radio as well.)
Compare and contrast with this story:
A deputy shot and killed a woman armed with a knife during a confrontation Wednesday night north of Lake Elsinore, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department stated in a news release.
A deputy was initially called to the 16900 block of Lake Mathews Road because a person made a suicidal threat.
Parent dead - kids alive. *weighs*
Of course, everyone is in a lather because the poor thing was shot in the back during the confrontation - but.
Rabbit Hole Day.
Do me a favor.
Remove the guns from both these stories and rewrite them. Or - write in someone with a brain with regards to handling weapons and rewrite them.
Cos' I can't do it right now.
Guns and unhappy people - not gonna end well. Just saying.
It also has the distinction of carrying two REALLY awful news stories as well.
Five children under age 10 and their mother were fatally shot inside a Wilmington home this morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police said that the assailant appeared to be the children's father and that he apparently committed suicide after faxing a letter to KABC Channel 7. Channel 7 then contacted authorities, police said.
The LAPD was dispatched to the 1000 block of McFarland Avenue at 8:22 a.m. Officer Sam Park said the man apparently committed suicide.
The story is damning. Kaiser union employees, both husband and wife - fired - according to the letter they faxed to KABC. (Oh, and it's likely they might have been regular listeners of KABC Talk Radio as well.)
Compare and contrast with this story:
A deputy shot and killed a woman armed with a knife during a confrontation Wednesday night north of Lake Elsinore, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department stated in a news release.
A deputy was initially called to the 16900 block of Lake Mathews Road because a person made a suicidal threat.
Parent dead - kids alive. *weighs*
Of course, everyone is in a lather because the poor thing was shot in the back during the confrontation - but.
Rabbit Hole Day.
Do me a favor.
Remove the guns from both these stories and rewrite them. Or - write in someone with a brain with regards to handling weapons and rewrite them.
Cos' I can't do it right now.
Guns and unhappy people - not gonna end well. Just saying.
