Yet another argument for better (real) gun control

 

As I have noted before, if you have a gun, it is a constant temptation to use it, especially under trying emotional circumstances.  So events that would otherwise just be emotionally difficult are turned into something worse ---

much worse ---

when emotion and anger have a gun available.

Here's the latest case of that.  While, I say "latest", but it's the latest one I've read.  Since I read it a couple of hours ago, there has very likely been another (or more than that) crime of passion resulting in a fatality that involves a gun.

The U.S. needs better gun control.  Now.

Man, 64, 'shot dead his Air Force veteran ex-wife, 48, days after she remarried because he hated her new 'hillbilly' husband'

"Civil court records show that Lauri, a medically-retired disabled veteran who served her country in the early 1990s, finalized a divorce with McCloud about three years ago. She married fellow Air Force veteran Billy Deatherage on June 13 - which was also her 48th birthday - and the couple was in the process of moving to Arkansas. 

On June 18, McCloud allegedly traveled to Lauri's home armed with a gun. He later told police that he was standing over his ex-wife while she was lying on a bed and when she reached for the phone, he shot her because he thought she was going to call 911."

How do advocates of personal gun ownership justify this?