"Scout"  wrote in message 
news:Vj9Cl.1835$6n.1104@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> Anthropy wrote:
>> Seattle father 'kills children'
>> Relatives of the victims - two aunts and a cousin of the mother -
>> comfort each other, 4 April
>> Two aunts of the mother involved were comforted by a son
>>
>> A father is suspected of shooting dead his five young children at a
>> trailer park near Seattle, Washington State, then killing himself in
>> his car.
>>
>> Police were called to the mobile home on Saturday after a visiting
>> relative found nobody answering the door and saw a child's body
>> through a window.
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7984748.stm
>>
>>
>> If guns weren't so freely available in the US, those children would
>> probably still be alive today!!
>
> Sloppy thinking if you don't think the father could easily and readily come up 
> with alternative means to kill his five children and then himself.

But he DIDN'T. He used a GUN. Because a GUN was the easiest and most
effective method to MURDER !!