When you start paying attention, there are an awful lot of these. They don't always make the national news. But they are there, week after week day after day, usually more than one of these every week.
If you look. Crimes of gun violence, crimes of impulse where the ease of instrumentality using a firearm is an integral part of the event.
From the AP, from KTUU tv and MSNBC.com:
DGU's? Legitimate ones? I've seen one so far this year, in Oklahoma. ONE.Juneau: Police Identify Man in Failed Murder-Suicide
By the Associated Press KTUU-TV updated 1/4/2012 3:15:51 PM ETJuneau police have released the name of a man they say was involved in a failed murder-suicide. Police say the man was 42-year-old Bradley James Mauch of Juneau.
Police say they got a call from a woman on Dec. 30 who said she had been shot.
When police arrived at the home, they found the woman had been shot in the abdomen. They also found Mauch was dead after shooting himself in the head.
The woman was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital with injuries that were non life-threatening.