Guns + Mass Layoffs = Suicides

From Alternet.org...

The body count is still rising. For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken a heavy toll on Americans. In response, a range of extreme acts including suicide, self-inflicted injury, murder, and arson have hit the local news. By October 2008, an analysis of press reports nationwide indicated that an epidemic of tragedies spurred by the financial crisis had already spread from Pasadena, California, to Taunton, Massachusetts, from Roseville, Minnesota, to Ocala, Florida.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/123563/?page=1

Man kills wife, kids, himself

"If the government takes away our guns, then only criminals will be armed."

yeah right.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/4-children-moth.html