Gary Don Barnett shot and killed his wife, his daughter, his 11 year old granddaughter, his 6 year

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On JUNE 15, 2023 Gary Don Barnett shot and killed his wife, his daughter, his 11 year old granddaughter, his 6 year old granddaughter, his 2 year old grandson, and himself.

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[Initech]

1. Give an idiot a gun, don't be surprised when they do something stupid with it.

[kimbutgar]

2. Gee you think he was a magaloon?

[LoisB]

3. Piece of shit bastard.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Noticed the car in the background. . . Did it belong to Robert Fucking Lee?

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Too bad he took his family with him. He should’ve just killed himself!



Adding this from the article

Regina wrote in court documents: 'My soon to be (ex) husband threatened to shoot me and he verbally abuses me every day. He also threatened to shoot my dog. He also has anywhere from 50 to 60 guns in his room. I am afraid he will get drunk and shoot me'

Regina warned the enforcers about this domestic terrorist and a lot of good it did.

[70sEraVet]

6. You know, as for your "Too bad..." comment, i wonder if we should be doing a new kind of PSA ad?

"Thinking about killing a bunch of people before you turn the gun on yourself? Why not just save time and bullets, and START with YOURSELF?"

[Rebl2]

12. Unfortunately

it doesn’t work that way. They are so filled with hate and anger they take it out on others first. Then they take the cowards way out.

[wnylib]

13. Hits home for me. Been there.

50 years ago I was married to a man who had guns for hunting. He was physically and psychologically abusive. When I left him, he stalked me and threatened to kill me.

One day he held me hostage in a car, out of town, in the middle of nowhere for 3 hours, to ramble on about why I should not divorce him. He had a handgun in his hand the whole time. I knew that he feared the consequences of his actions and fantasized about how he could get away with killing me. So I used that knowledge to convince him to drive me back to the office where I worked before my boss and co-workers called the police about my absence.

Since I'm here today to tell about it, it obviously worked. There were other incidents after that one, but that was the scariest and most dangerous one.

People outside of the situation who have never dealt with someone like that often do not take the danger seriously. They downplay it. "Oh, he's just upset and blowing off steam. It will pass." Or worse, "What did you do to upset him?"

Take the behavior of unbalanced gun owners seriously. Believe the people closest to them. The threats are real, not idle rambling.

During the months that it took for the divorce to become final, I was never alone again. I always had a friend or relative with me everywhere and was always very conscious of my surroundings wherever I went. I would not be here today without the help of other people who knew how dangerous he was.

When I remarried and moved out of state, and kept our location secret from everyone except my parents, I felt better, but remained alert to surroundings. I did not fully relax until my mother told me in a phone call that my ex had died, 15 years after my divorce was final.

[canetoad]

17. What a dreadful experience

I'm glad he's dead and you survived.

[wnylib]

18. It was so long ago that it almost seems unreal to me now.

But when I look back on some of the things that happened, I see more clearly now than at the time they were happening just how much danger I was in.

I knew he was dangerous, and intuitively took certain steps or said certain things to protect myself. But I was going in intuition. It's only later that I allowed myself to have full conscious awareness of what was happening and let myself feel what I was too afraid to feel at the time.

[Cha]

19. Wow.. So glad you made

it through that horrible scary phase of your life, wnylib!

[wnylib]

20. Well, so am I, of course. Thank you.

I tried to give what I learned from my experience, when I felt able to. I've done some advocacy for women in domestic violence situations. Paying it forward. I would not have made it without the help of others so I wanted to be able to help someone else, too.

[Cha]

21. Good on you paying it forward!

[JudyM]

23. Horrific power play. But that was such a smart move, wnylib, flipping the equation in the moment.

Glad you made it out, you add so much here.

[wnylib]

24. Thanks, JudyM.

I had learned his behavior patterns and thought habits from being married to him. So I was mostly operating on intuition from what I knew about him.

I knew that he believed that he could come up with a "perfect murder" and never be caught or pay the consequences. The location where he held me hostage with a gun was isolated, with a woods on one side of a narrow dirt road and open fields on the other side, without any houses or even a barn in sight. It was a place where he could have shot me with nobody noticing, and buried me in the woods. People might suspect him, but would not be able to prove anything without a body. Nobody knew where we were, so nobody would be looking in that area.

But, if people reported to police that he had shown up earlier that day at the office where I worked, which he had done, and that I was missing for 3 hours, there would have been an all out search. See, he had told everyone that we had an "amicable" separation and ordered me not to ever tell people about the violence. I knew he believed that keeping it silent would protect him from suspicion, so I had told EVERYONE about how violent and dangerous he was - my boss, co-workers, parents, and roommate who was also a co-worker of mine. She had seen first hand his threats and belligerence when he stalked our place. Then I let him know that everyone knew.

There was also a police record from a time when I had been to the ER for stitches (knife wound). The ER doctor had called in the police. He gave the cops a bad time that night, so they threatened him with arrest for interfering with their investigation.

So, the natural thing to do when he held me hostage for 3 hours with a gun was to plant in him fear that cops would be out looking for him. Everyone knew that he was an outdoorsman who knew obscure places in the countryside. Those were the first kinds of places the cops would look. My roommate was the kind of person who would have pushed hard for an immediate search. She would have told them why it was necessary. Plus, they had a record on him.

But I did not think through all that consciously in a step by step process. My knowledge of him made it an intuitive move to take. Or, as my father used to say, "You never know what you can do until you have to do it."

[JudyM]

25. My heart was racing just reading this.

What you lived through. I hope you’ve been able to get to the other side psychologically, sure it was a tough road.

[wnylib]

26. It took some time, but yes. It was 50 years ago

that I left him. I can talk about it without reliving the feeling. When I hear about cases like in the OP, I shudder a bit, knowing that it could have been me. Some settings can still trigger a bit of anxiety because I have an automatic heightened awareness, like a 6th sense, around people with anger issues.

But for the most part, it's behind me after all this time.

[JudyM]

28. That's great progress.

Wishing you more peace, and less contact with people with anger issues.

[wnylib]

29. I avoid them like the plague.

[lapucelle]

27. Thank you for sharing your story. It truly is a service.

[msongs]

5. gun owners wanna know....what kind of gun and ammo nt

[Scrivener7]

15. Was it a clip or a magazine?

[maxsolomon]

7. Some context:

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/6-dead-including-3-children-tennessee-murder-suicide-near-georgia-border/TCX5MH3YJJCUXNU3TWCURBA6KY/

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. another family anihilater

[Celerity]

9. posted selfie of himself in Friday the 13th mask and ranted about his breakup before his rampage

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12205219/Crazed-gunman-killed-wife-daughter-three-kids-ranted-breakup.html

[UpInArms]

10. Ugly pos

Wish he had killed himself first

[ailsagirl]

14. Yes

[AllyCat]

11. What a shitty person. Too bad there were people around

Him who didn’t deserve to be hurt by this POS. If only he couldn’t have gotten guns.

[KewlKat]

16. He killed his wife, step daughter and the stepdaughter's children. The Step daughter's fiance

survived.

A Marion County General Sessions Court judge in December granted Regina Barnett a no-contact order after she said her husband threatened to shoot her.

"He also has anywhere from 50 to 60 guns in his room," Regina Barnett wrote in an application for a restraining order. "I am afraid he will get drunk and shoot me."

The no-contact order was still active at the time of the incident, and Gary Barnett was also charged with domestic assault, according to court documents.

Days before the incident, Gary Barnett made threatening posts on his social Facebook page including a repost from a TikTok user who mentions the unfairness men face during a breakup.


more information HERE

He also set the house on fire...

[GenThePerservering]

22. Should have shot him first nt

[Vinca]

30. Well, if the family had survived I'm sure the Supreme Court would make sure he gets

to keep all his guns.