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without vices and penal records, given that also these subjects can sometimes "explode" and make a carnage in their own families.
Also in many apparently normal families, in fact, these tragedies are possible and they really occur. These are the final acts after years of physical and psychological abuses or increasing stress on one of their members and, too frequently, these situations had been ignored or underrated before.

Don't forget that the presence of one or more firearms at home also encourages a violent and fatal reaction by the victims of long-lasting violence against the abuser, as soon as these victims reach in getting only one of their father's or husband's firearms or simply in buying another one. Violence calls violence and a "weapons rush" inside a family can only lead to a "final battle".

After the tragedy, a judge can, sometimes, admit the extenuating circumstances (partial or total) of the self-defence, but the flying bullets in a family or among neighbours, in any case, are tragedies that should be avoided at any cost, in a really civil society.

This is possible only with a capillary preventive policy by the US authorities, not with that of "weapons for everybody, everybody more protected" that can only multiply these tragedies.

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