Missing Dexter Element

Summary


Among all the anguished comments on the tragic killing of a mother and her children in Dexter in June, a key factor has gone almost completely unmentioned: the killers access to guns, even while he awaited a trial on charges of criminal threatening. One of the few mentions of guns was a readers questionable assertion that the victim would have been safe if she had kept a gun in the house.

It was a gun, a 12-gauge shotgun, that Steven Lake used on June 13 to kill his wife, their two children and himself. He had entered the house armed also with a .22-caliber handgun, extra ammunition and a knife. Almost exactly a year earlier, on June 14, 2010, he had gathered his family together in the couples bedroom, took a pistol from a holster hanging on a bedpost, and threatened to kill them all.

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Missing Dexter Element

Despite a protection-from-abuse order, bail conditions that he have no further contact with his wife and that he posse...

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