Mother Kills Son, Self | 04/07/2009 11:05 am
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A mother with a history of mental instability fatally shot her son before committing suicide at a Florida shooting range this weekend.
Marie Moore, 44, was at Shoot Straight, in Casselberry, FL, 20 minutes north of Orlando, on Sunday, with her son Mitchell, 20. According to witnesses and a surveillance video, the two appeared to be getting along until Moore went behind her son with a rented revolver and fired a single bullet at the back of Mitchell’s head. She then put the gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger.
Her son died on the scene, and Moore died hours later in a hospital. On Monday, police were still trying to figure out what drove the woman to kill her son. While so many questions are left unanswered, our hearts and prayers go out to the family and their friends, touched by this tragedy.
Click here for more from the local NBC news affiliate, News 14.
Update 4/9: Marie Moore left three suicide notes and audio tapes.
Editor’s Note: Due to readers’ concerns, the original image was taken down and changed to the above.
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Great response from a classy lady.
Actually, in murders with firearms, we are number 4 in the world after South Africa, Columbia and Thailand.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-crime-murders-with-fir…
The availabilty of disturbed people disturbs me more than the availability of guns. The attitude in this country is you are on your own to fend for yourself. You lose your job, your house, your health care, you are on your own. You are on your own for your sucess or failure or your protection. A nation taking care of people is communisim or socialism - so evil. Big government - so evil. Big taxes - so evil. I don’t know what channel you are watching, but Wild West Westerns have been off the air for ages. People who obtain guns legally are not the problem. People who obtain guns illegally are a big problem and taking away my gun is not going to fix that. For your own information, please take a Basic Pistol Safety course. To actually view/compare state by state gun laws, take a look at
http://www.handgunlaw.us/
and the people at
http://www.defensivecarry.com/
are very informative.
Jeez, 4th? I thought we were lower than that. That is kind of scary. While I consider myself liberal, I always thought guns should be available to those who wanted them and were ready to submit to any tests and restrictions the government put on them. As long as you were registered with the gun and its serial number, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
But the kinds of guns nowadays… when I think of a gun, I think of a handgun, or a revolver, or a simple hunting rifle. I have been shooting since I turned 18 - my ex boyfriend purchased a hunting rifle on his 18th birthday and we would go target shooting - it’s very fun, and very empowering. I have also said that I wanted to own a handgun someday - but I just have never felt the urge to go buy one. I find it comforting to have protection around - but that protection for me has been an alarm system, a few big dogs that like to bark at anything, a watchful eye that is attracted to suspicious activity, and a confidence about myself that doesn’t make me seem weak. I have not been a victim, and I hopefully never will be.
I think gun "control" may be in order with some of the high powered assault weapons that are legal to purchase… why do you need bullets that pierce armor as a regular citizen? Are we battling angry armored deer in the forests now?
But other than that, I do believe that "Guns don’t kill people, People kill people.". It’s true that if you can’t get a gun, you’ll find another way - creating a bomb, using a knife, finding poison, or using a car to run someone over.
I don’t know why people are so shocked by this. Do we not have enough guns in this country for every man, women, child and growing fetus to own? come on, you waited too late to make gun control a reality.
you had to have your guns just in case the Indians were circling your villiage, right?
I was very annoyed about the remark about gun control garabage, so get back to me when someone kills someone you love with a gun they had no right to own.
will we ever have gun comtrol? Will we get guns out of the hands of criminals or people with emotional and mental issues? I think not. Not as long as people think gun control is garbage.
Gotta go we have to get the wagons into a circle.
Elizabeth,
We have zero problem with the control of guns not getting into the hands of whack jobs and criminals (Same thing), we just don’t want nor will we allow for anyone to take the arms that we as responsible gun owners have to protect our family and loved ones from the whack jobs and criminals. That and that alone is what we defend!
I think calling people whack jobs is really off. you can call them criminals criminals, but sick people who kill are not whack jobs. They are sick people who got their hands on a gun.
so all these people who have killed innocent people over the last few weeks (father killing his 5 children) have rights to bear arms? so much for protecting his family.
elizabeth,
Re-read my post regarding your statement of
"so all these people who have killed innocent people over the last few weeks (father killing his 5 children) have rights to bear arms? so much for protecting his family".
And as for the "Whack jobs" you have to be kidding with your statement of "but sick people who kill are not whack jobs. They are sick people who got their hands on a gun"…………..Earth to elizabeth………..Here’s a clue for ya………They "ARE" whack jobs when they kill people!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello,
I was just an internet traveler passing by when I caught this forum. I read it and was about to move on until I reviewed a couple of the links I had opened during the reading. I had to come back and make a few comments. When I am done I will move on.
A little background, I am from New England. I Work as a state corrections officer, not a state hired contractor employed corrections officer. I am also an Army Reserve Officer on my second tour in Iraq, father of 4, gun owner, and responsible adult.Quick notes on some of the reading:
- I assume EKA lives in the urban N.E., because in the part I live in, it’s hard not to find a gun owner.
- The only people that get robbed for their guns have let people know they have them. A real good reason not to post you have one if you don’t.
- People arguing for stricter gun laws, should avoid guns vs cars debates. You don’t need a registration or license to buy, own, or operate a car. Those are needed just to use the auto on public roads. Lots of people in NE own unregistered plow trucks that don’t leave their yards, most of these are uninspected too. You do however, at least in my very gun friendly state, need a registration to own or buy, and a license to operate an automatic weapon. So license and registration laws are already stricter for guns than cars in my state.
- Not to mention that a hell of a lot less people are killed by automatic weapons then semiautomatic weapons, single action weapons, and cars. So you should use that instead of automobiles for the license argument. Also converting a semiauto to an auto is illegal.
- Just like a car, you have to pay one way or another to use your gun when not on your property.
- Likewise, I can operate a car in my back yard without a license, but most towns have restrictions on where you can use a weapon even on private property.
- Finally, a sitting Senetor has killed more people with his car, than 99% of gun owners.
(continued)
Sorry, was going to discuss some stuff that should not be here and decided after rereading not to put it forth. So the following is a little disjointed.
My oldest child has emotional issues, and none of my weapons are in my house. He still managed to get a gun illegally. No gun control laws could have stopped it until he broke them. I know, he could have killed someone if found the bullets, I agree and I hate the fact he managed to get it, and I would love to meet the lowlife that provided it to him. The fact is he didn’t, and if he had he would have been charged with breaking that law.
Now, my point here is that no matter how strict the laws are, they have to be enforced, and they need to be enforced fairly. The laws are there, we need to use them. You cannot punish people for what you think they will do, or what someone else did.
In my opinion banning the weapons would be wrong. Why you might ask, a ban would have meant he could not get one. Yes, and that works so well with drugs.
I am against banning weapons, because theoretically the weapons are what keep the government from banning anything they want. In actuality privately owned weapons are probably ineffective against the Military.
I stop here because I cannot say why the Body Armor articles are misleading, take my word for it they are, I was there and part of MNSTC-I when they were written. They are not lies, but very slanted.