Reply #91: You're assuming that if he didn't have access to a gun, [View All]

[benEzra]

he would not have attempted to murder them at all, and they'd be alive. Perhaps yes, perhaps no. In hindsight, the gun should have been accessible only to the parents, definitely, but that doesn't necessarily mean the murders wouldn't have occurred.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/53880

Five in US family stabbed to death
Aug 21, 2001 11:04 AM

A 27-year-old California man allegedly stabbed his wife to death and then drove to another home where he killed four other family members - an elderly couple, a nine-year-old girl, and a young boy found dead on the front porch, police said.

Police gathered outside the modest duplex apartment in the Sacramento suburb described a scene of carnage inside, apparently sparked by a family feud in a quiet immigrant community.

"We have a total of five victims, one suspect responsible for all five," Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman James Lewis told reporters.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-124403544.html

Police: Three in California family stabbed to death, baby left to die

Dateline: GARDEN GROVE, California
Police revealed Wednesday that three family members found dead in their home had been stabbed, and that detectives did not have any suspects in one of the city's "most horrific" crimes.

Investigators identified the victims as Phuong Hung Le, 30, and his wife, Trish Dawn Lam, 25. Lam's 6-year-old son, Tommy, also was killed. He was earlier reported to be 7.

There was another one a couple weeks ago posted here on DU, but I couldn't find it. Multiple-victim homicides are rare, and multiple-victim intrafamily homicides are exceedingly rare, given that we live in a nation of 300 million people; only media sensationalizing makes them seem common (violence sells, and fear sells, unfortunately). There's apparently something in the American psyche that wants parents afraid of being murdered by their kids, kids by their parents, etc. even though statistically those fears are almost completely ungrounded.