FLA Trans Woman Pleads Guilty to Shooting Trans Wife

[Carolyn Marie]

http://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/03/21/transgender-woman-admits-shooting-killing-transgender-wife/

 

 

Carolyn Marie

[jo_g]

 

While this is sad and yet another example of the need for better gun control, I can't help but think the story would have been equally informative had the headline been "woman admits shooting, killing wife". Maybe I'm just overly sensitive pre-coffee...

[Charlize]

This is indeed sad.  Unfortunately it is often members of a family that hurt each other.  The fact that they are trans has little or nothing to do with the crime but reporters need something to "spice up" a headline.  That's another sad truth.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Cyndee]

It's like bad things happen, why does the press even need to mention "trans"  in this story ? Must be somebody's agenda

[VickySGV]

2 hours ago, Cyndee said:

Must be somebody's agenda

 

To sell advertising and newspapers!! We sell. probably to the people who claim we do not exist in public.

[Kole Rickard]

This is horrible! There must have been something else going to though to drive her to do that to her partner.. We really do need to take better care of the law of having guns.

[Josie Beth]

It’s a sad fact that most murders occur at the hand of a loved one. It’s not because of gender identity or even the availability of a weapon, it’s a flawed mindset that most people in relationships assume that the other person belongs to them. So when this fallacy is challenged they get emotional, passionate and panic because they realize they can’t control the other person and in the attempt to control the person they kill them as a way of being in control of the other person. The only way to stop this kind of murder which is statistically the highest percentage, is for people to understand that they don’t have power over anyone else but themselves and everyone else outside of their body has the right to do as they choose with their own body, as long as they don’t physically harm someone else. It’s a mindset and not a law that is going to reduce murder. In short people need to grow up.

[tracy_j]

This brings up the point -  I think many people who think about this are likely to be irritated by the fact that press freedom seems to give them far more rights in exploiting predjudice than any general member of the public. They are masters at twisting the legal side to avoid litigation.

 

Tracy