{"id":4381,"date":"2011-05-23T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/05\/23\/vpc-dances-over-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:41","slug":"vpc-dances-over-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4381","title":{"rendered":"VPC Dances Over Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17570,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/news\\\/nation\\\/2011-05-23-father-kills-family_n.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/news\\\/nation\\\/2011-05-23-father-kills-family_n.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17571,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.post-gazette.com\\\/pg\\\/11143\\\/1148596-100.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.post-gazette.com\\\/pg\\\/11143\\\/1148596-100.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><i>VPCinfo Violence Policy Cent<br \/>\nPA: Family annihilator shoots and kills wife, two daughters, self with .357 handgun. http:\/\/fb.me\/ZT2NLwEV<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Violence Policy Center posted the above Tweet about 15 minutes ago. It would appear that Josh Sugarman, Kristen Rand, and their crew are trying to make up for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence&#8217;s suspension from Twitter by dancing in the blood of a family tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2011-05-23-father-kills-family_n.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">involves a murder-suicide<\/a> that happened sometime on Sunday in the Pittsburgh area. A man killed his wife and two young daughters and then himself. The family had recently moved to the rented house in Shaler Township 3-4 weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Shaler Township Police Chief Jeff Gally said, &#8220;We have no indication as to what caused this tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Chief Gally says further in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/11143\/1148596-100.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>, the only people who know for sure are gone. <\/p>\n<p>This is most certainly a tragedy. Why it happened we probably will never know for sure. The tool was a .357 revolver but it just as easily could have been a baseball bat, a kitchen knife, or even the bathtub in the master bedroom. However, if it had been any one of the later items, VPC would not have seen fit to Tweet about it. They are selective on the violence they wish to publicize. They certainly are not reticent in using inflammatory language when they refer to the murderer as the &#8220;family annihilator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T J. D. 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