Man in Santa suit kills 8, self on Christmas Eve

Police were called to the home early Thursday, and officers found Pardo dead of a single bullet to the head. Two handguns were found at the scene, and two more were discovered in the wreckage of his former in-laws’ house.

Given that the details are pretty sparse, it’s hard to say what the “two more were discovered in…his former in-law’s house.”

Of course it’s conceivable that he showed up with four handguns and tossed two of them away - that’s what people always do in movies. When their guns run out of ammo, they never reload, they just throw the guns aside.

Still, it is at least reasonable to assume that one or both of those firearms belonged to the in-laws. It is also reasonable to assume that because this lunatic was able to drive away that those firearms were stored in a “safe” manner - that is, unloaded, equpped with gun locks, perhaps, with the ammo stored well separately from the firearms, and the weapons themselves locked up somewhere.

In other words, totally useless for self or home defense when a deranged clown wearing a Santa suit blasted his way through the front door.

Or perhaps he was just a Clint Eastwood-style six-gunner who blew everybody away in the first three seconds.

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