Just another case of a gun being used for what it is usually used for in America, murder and suicide.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Two people died in a suspected murder/suicide after police said that a man shot his ex-girlfriend’s new lover and then himself. 

WFMZ reported that 42-year-old David Lopez-Cintron was let into the home of his ex-girlfriend early Monday morning by one of her two sons, ages 2 and 14. 

Once inside the home, Lopez-Cintron went into the bedroom where he found the couple together. The suspect allegedly tried to shoot the woman, but his gun jammed. 

When Lopez-Cintron aimed the gun at the new boyfriend, Alexis Nogueras-Torres, it fired, killing the 44-year-old Reading man. 

The 14-year-old boy and the ex-girlfriend were present when the shooting took place. The 2-year-old boy was in another room. 

According to the Reading Eagle, Lopez-Cintron fled the scene, but by 10 a.m., police had learned that he could be hiding out a few blocks from the shooting, near the 600 block of South 15th Street. By the time investigators arrived on the scene, however, the suspect was dead of what police said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

You know the NRA can advertise that gun carrying Americans are the Dudley Do-Rights of the world and that they are constantly rescuing cats from trees and babies from burning buildings, but the facts are that when guns are used in this country some version of this is the usual scenario.

Or muggings, armed robberies, or rapes of course. 

This is NOT the wild west, and arming every person walking the streets is NOT the key to reduced crime and fewer gun deaths.

People get angry, people get jealous, and people get suicidal. And often the only thing that increases the chances for them, and others, in surviving those feelings is the absence of a firearm.