US: Nine Dead in Pennsylvania Murder-Suicide
The Facts
- A mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania on Friday left nine dead, including the gunman. The victims included six members of the shooter's family, who were killed inside the home, and two neighbors outside the house who attempted to intervene.
- The coroner's office identified the shooter as Matthew Stone Sr., 45, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The victims included 24-year-old Angelina Stone, the shooter's pregnant daughter, as well as a five-year-old boy and 22-month-old girl.
- Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said Sunday that a motive was yet to be established and that guns, ammunition, and cell phones were collected from the scene. The accused's background was said to be a focal point, while a relative told the media that they saw no warning signs before the incident.
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The Spin
Democratic narrative
Treating slaughter inside a family home as a private tragedy is how the deadliest kind of mass shooting keeps getting ignored. Firearms turn abuse, rage and crisis into body counts, and children and women pay the heaviest price. Extreme risk protection orders and real gun safety laws must be passed sooner rather than later to protect innocent lives.
Republican narrative
No gun law can catch a killer nobody saw coming, and pretending otherwise sells false comfort. Red flag laws already on the books failed to stop massacres in Buffalo and California, yet the demand is always for lower burdens of proof and thinner due process. Rebuilding mental health care would save more lives than stripping rights away from people who pose no real threat.
