No Fun With Guns: Open Carry Texas Edition
Veronica Dunnachie, a 35 year old woman in Arlington, Texas, filed for divorce from her husband last October. Yesterday, she went to the house where he lived with his adult daughter from another marriage and the couple’s three children.
She shot and killed her unarmed husband and his adult daughter and then drove herself to a mental health facility, where police found her.
This was almost dead solid perfect guaranteed to happen.
Veronica was an active member and proud demonstrator with Open Carry Texas, a group who feels the need to parade around town and in stores with military grade weapons. Just because they can.
Here she is demonstrating her ability. Click the little one to get the big one and read the cute comments from Cory Watkins, the head of Open Carry Texas.
And here she is on the left in an Open Carry Texas recruiting poster.
And there’s a group shot —
What is it going to take to see the mental health of these people who feel the need to carry weapons and scare the crap out of everyone? Target kicked them out but Kroger is letting them carry. I quit going to Kroger.
I know this isn’t funny. It’s serious. Deadly serious.
Thanks to Stephanie for the heads up.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201401/how-tell-sociopath-psychopath
Some ran the country during the Bush years, and now some are just reaping what was allowed to sow.
Makes you want to (a) scream or (b) throw up…. and in no particular order.
1Not only did our elected officials allow this to happen, some of them encouraged it.
2Those poor kids…
3“group shot” may not be the best way to describe a picture related to open carry texas.
4One wonders whether the Open Carry folks will insist that she be allowed to carry firearms during the trial, or (if convicted) while she’s in prison. As the gun nuts keep saying “what part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you not understand?”
Personally, I think many of the police shootings or unarmed people can be traced to the open carry / concealed carry for everyone movement. Remember that (white) guy who got out of his car carrying an aluminum cane, and was promptly shot by a nervous police officer who thought it was a shotgun?
An armed society is not a polite society – it’s a nervous, fearful society.
5Those individuals who feel compelled to open-carry firearms in public (as opposed to concealed carry or not carrying at all) do so for one basic reason: they very much want the opportunity to use their firearms against other human beings. The public intimidation associated with open carry is just a nice side benefit for these people; the main thing they’re after is a shootout. Don’t fool around with these lunatics: if they enter an establishment where you and your loved ones are situated, assume the very worst about them and leave immediately.
6If you leave,they might feel abandoned and shoot you anyway. If you leave they may feel disrespected and shoot you anyway. If you see them coming and race them towards the door,they may feel you are a threat and shoot you anyway.
7If you head for the exit they may think you are getting away and shoot you anyway.
My advice is to shoot them first,they were gonna shoot you anyway.
Ammosexual gun butt logic leaves three youngsters orphans. Divorce was on the table; too bad surrendering all guns isn’t a condition of filing for divorce.
8My heart goes out to that family, but I question whether anyone who knew them well might not have seen this coming. I have to agree with Steve, no good can come from carrying a gun every goshdarn minute of the day and night. American society has gone to hell.
9I got into an email conversation with a C.J. somebody at Open Carry Texas. I asked him over and over, what are you so afraid of? Never got an answer. Fat, fearful and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
101, We are not just an armed society — we are damned militarized.
112. She drove herself to a mental health clinic? Why? She already proved she was crazy. Diagnosis unneeded.
maggie, as with most ammosexuals, facing the consequences of their own actions is a non player. So she skedaddled in a lame effort to set up a defense plea.
No, Veronica, you are not crazy in respect to the terms of a legal plea of insanity. As with most of your ammosexual playmates, you are plumb ignorant with a heavy overdose of st00pid. Good luck selling the jury and your prison kin on how much you loved your babies.
12I’d say she desperately needs mental health care, but good luck getting it in Texas. I wonder if she has health insurance.
13The gun nuts as I refer to them, believe they have the ability to be judge jury and executioner.
To bad she didn’t drive herself to the jail instead of a mental health facility.
14PKM-in this theater of the macabre won’t be no fighting in court over who gets those guns. Those poor kids will prolly hope to never get adopted after seeing what happened to their step-sister.
This should be plastered on front pages all across the nation of what happens when wingnuts with unupholstered brains are allowed to possess firearms. Not that whitey wingnut cares.
15One wonders.
Was he seeking disarmament, or just greater security around the kids, in the home as the “requirement” for her to end the marriage?
Who knows, maybe she couldn’t take the arguments about not spending all the family’s money on weaponry…
This has nothing but sad written all over it.
16This is too sad to respond to with snark. JMO.
17The airheads on the metroplex CBS nooze outlet did not mention that she was involved in the open carry movement. It would be interesting to know if any of the other stations reported that fact.
18No one’s posting this (her second-to-last posting):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=995933447099109&set=a.557058184319973.146368.100000473896492&type=1
19Radical though it may be, it leaves one to wonder if we really need guns at all. I generally don’t want to take guns away from responsible gun owners and you don’t want to give them any ammunition (see what I did there) to bolster the “they are coming after our guns” argument, but darn it, when is enough going to be enough?
20She should have driven herself to the mental health clinic first. Maybe then, two people would still be alive.
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