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By tinicard • 14 years ago

When haters go public

My local newspaper recently reported a story of a murder-suicide. A man shot his estranged wife at her workplace and then shot himself. This is already the second such incident in a month, but in this case, two of the woman’s coworkers were also shot (they survived). I was very frustrated by this story because it seems to happen everyday, but then I was even more frustrated by the comments that followed the story on the website.
One commenter praised the gunman as a “hero” because he would not take an insult “lying-down”. The insult being that his wife had just filed divorce against him one week before the shooting. The commenter then went on to denounce the family ...

My local newspaper recently reported a story of a murder-suicide. A man shot his estranged wife at her workplace and then shot himself. This is already the second such incident in a month, but in this ...