Reply #38: oh, siiiiiiigh

[iverglas]

Mr. Foster surely knew he was being recorded taking the gun from the stables at his own estate, and would be pegged with murder.

Mr. Foster is fucking dead. D.E.A.D.

Mr Foster is believed to have deliberately left the tape running to record the fire, giving police hours of potential clues and evidence.

This was a MURDER-SUICIDE, just as are many of the firearms suicides in the US that the gun militants blithely write off from the death-by-firearm figures, hoping nobody will catch that bit of sleight-of-hand.


If an American millionaire were determined to kill his family and himself, the absence or illegal status of guns would not stop him.

And yet, and yet ... so many people actually DO NOT do these things with the paving stones conveniently found in their expensive circular drives ...

You seem to have the notion that someone has suggested that the legal status of the firearm involved was of some relevance.

The only relevance it has is that the individual who committed the homicides had a firearm BECAUSE he acquired it legally. He very certainly didn't acquire it to commit crimes or homicides with. He ACQUIRED it for a purpose permitted by law (yes, in the UK, purpose is an issue), and he USED it for a purpose not permitted by law. Amazing, that, ain't it?

As to whether non-possession of a firearm would have stopped him ... well, if you can find a case of a narcissistic control freak wiping out a herd of horses *and* his entire family *and* himself by some other means, please pass it on.

You COULD cook dinner on your radiator, but I'll bet you're a million times more likely to use that large appliance sitting in your kitchen. And if you don't have such an appliance, you might just order in or go out. You will not *cook dinner* at all. You will solve your problem another way. Seeing that? It's an analogy. Good luck with it.


I guess these murders would have been much better if they had been committed with some other weapon.

I guess anybody who actually thought that, or hell, even just pretended to think it, would be a fool of the first water.

I guess anybody who insinuated that someone else thought it would be an asshole of the first water.

I guess there could be some reason for someone saying it that hasn't occurred to me, so I'm making no judgment here, of course.


American millionaires are typically resourceful--at least the ones who didn't inherit it like Paris Hilton. British millionaires must be really dense. Otherwise this story's point is hard to find.

You do just hit the nail on the head sometimes, even if sideways.

Your point is impossible to find.