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This Dad Wants Guns After Family Massacred
‘I’ve lost 1 little girl and I’m not going to lose another’
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It was a Thanksgiving Day that forever changed one family.
Paul Michael Merhige finished his dinner, left his cousin’s home, returned with a handgun and executed five of his own family members in Jupiter, Fla., including an unborn baby and a 6-year-old girl asleep in her bed.
The 35-year-old, mentally ill shooter didn’t say a word as he mercilessly pulled the trigger.
Merhige shot and killed his twin sisters, one of whom was pregnant. He fired a bullet into his brother-in-law’s head. He shot his aunt and tried to shoot his uncle, but the gun jammed.
And then the cold-blooded killer did something even more unthinkable.
He walked into his 6-year-old cousin’s bedroom and shot her dead while she slept. Just hours earlier, that same little girl had prayed and given thanks to God as she shared Thanksgiving dinner with her killer, several relatives and guests.
9-1-1 call: ‘He shot multiple people’ (Warning graphic content)
The media refer to it as “The Thanksgiving Day massacre” of 2009.
Jim Sitton will always remember it as the day he lost his little girl to an evil madman with a gun.
Jim Sitton and wife, Muriel, in Makayla’s room
Now, a little more than three years after his tragic loss, Sitton, a photojournalist for WPTV-TV, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla., has a powerful message for lawmakers and citizens who advocate restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans:
“[I understand] what it’s like to be completely helpless and powerless when someone attacks your family with a gun.
Reposted with permission.
and if you had a weapon in your home you could have killed him….
There are plenty of weapons in the home that could have been used, stop believing guns are the only thing that can be used to defend your home.