Florida father with assault weapon forces wife to watch as he kills two sons

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110. Although the gun aspect is garnering attention, I've been reading stories just like it for 50 years.

This is the reason battered women often do not leave their violent, psychopathic husbands. Killing the children is what these men do to torment their wives beyond the grave.

I'm relatively sure that social spending for battered women trying to escape such men with their children has been cut in their region - and we must not forget that this woman may have fallen in one of the categories of the VAWA that the GOP opposed - hispanic surnames - possibly immigrants - thus no foul, says the GOP.

We have the GOP elected officials saying that women should stay with such men to maintain the family, but really to keep them off the welfare roll. The dysfunction from them staying with these men creates another generation of tortured souls who act out again or end up in trouble.

There are cases where the woman and children had to be given new identities and moved out of state and hidden from their abusers. It requires a commitment of tax payer dollars and a legal system that refuses to allow it to continue.

Some RW states have, for all practical purposes if not literally, repealed their domestic violence laws because they have no money to enforce them and do what the laws were intended to do - prevent this.

Thanks to our Nordquist, Libertarian style of 'starve the beast' iniatiatives, there will be a lot more of this. The issue is lack of support for this woman and her children. I am not 'pro-gun' but that is not what this is about - the true problem is larger and requires tax money, not new laws.