The Uniontown Police Department is calling the incident a "domestic dispute that turned deadly."

Five family members, including three kids, were found dead in an Ohio home Thursday evening in what police are calling a “domestic dispute that turned deadly,” according to a news release.

The incident is being investigated as a quadruple murder-suicide, police said.

  • DessertStorms
    11•10 months ago

    I don’t generally disagree with your point, but I’m not sure why you’re making it here.

    Lets not pretend like this was anything but intentional use of a firearm by a family annihilator, and that the problem in this case is gendered violence, not gun safety.

      • DessertStorms
        -24•10 months ago

        And I just pointed out that their long spiel about gun safety is irrelevant because this wasn’t a case that could have been prevented with gun safety. This man wanted to kill his family, and he did.

        • @[email protected]
          5•10 months ago

          Again, they were replying to someone else’s comment about the safety of having a gun in the home. If they’d made a top-level comment saying this, maybe you’d have an argument, but currently all you’re doing is trying to derail the the discussion with irrelevant details.

          It’s not like these were the first people to die of gun violence so who cares whether a tangential discussion applies in this specific instance?

      • DessertStorms
        -21•10 months ago

        If you can’t see the connection between gendered violence and what happened here, it’s because you don’t want to.

        (also gun safety, which I literally started my previous reply saying I agree with, had nothing to do with this case, you are just derailing the conversation from the real issue - an epidemic of deadly misogyny. It wasn’t the gun being there that made him kill them)

        • Nougat
          -10•10 months ago

          ~~Oh no. ~~

          The article is short. It names all the members of the family. Based on the names, there appear to be:

          * One adult male
          * One adult female
          * Two teen females (yeah, I’m calling 12 a teen)
          * One male child

          There is no information in the article about which one of the above was the shooter, and all of them are old enough to be able to handle a firearm (although it’s less likely that the male child, aged 9, would have been the shooter).

          Your comments refer to “him” and “this man,” so you must be referring to the adult male. Unless you have some information about this incident that is not stated in the article, you are assuming that you know who the shooter was, where there is no information to support that claim.

          It seems that you want to believe that it must have been the man, because you believe that men are intrinsically violent. Is it more statistically likely, based on past history? Sure. But you cannot apply statistics that way to come to a correct conclusion about an individual incident.