4 dead bodies found shot in southern Indiana home

From left, Katherine Burton, Shawn Burton, Aaron Cross and Thomas Smith were found dead in a Waynesville, Indiana home.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Authorities "working around the clock" to find those responsible
• Three males and a female were found dead in the Waynesville house
• No suspect is in custody, the sheriff says

   

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If widespread gun ownership makes us safe, why are we not the safest nation on earth?

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"80% Of All Firearm Deaths In 23 Industrial Countries Occurred in The United States"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/80percent-of-all-firearms-deaths-in-23.html

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       On the surface, any single act of gun violence seems to be an isolated event, an occurrence 

that American individualists "should" accept and absorb as an "understandable" aberration 

perpetrated by a crazed individual. But just as individual "points of light" gather and 

consolidate the whole strength of a community, so do individual acts of firearm slaughter join 

in an "atmosphere of terror." This "tapestry of terror" – this “mural of terror” – is more 

   culturally disintegrating than individual acts of political terror. The latter are vanishingly rare while 

the accumulated effect of the former have become our daily bread, the warp and weft of our "society."

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“The Good, The Bad and The Crazy”: Jon Steward Analyzes NRA Convention

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-good-bad-crazy-jon-stewart-analyzes.html

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Bill Maher Redefines “The War on Terror” as “The War on Losers.”

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/05/bill-maher-redefines-war-on-terror-as.html

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Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons.html

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                                                              Jake Carpenter and AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN

May 12, 2013

CNN) -- Four bodies with gunshot wounds were found in a southern Indiana home late Saturday night, authorities said.

Officials are investigating their deaths as a quadruple homicide, Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett said.

No suspect is in custody.

"We've been working around the clock and will continue to do so until we can bring those responsible to justice," Gorbett said Sunday.

Three men were found dead in the living room, and a woman was found dead in the bedroom, Gorbett said.

They were identified as Aaron Cross, 41, Shawn Burton, 41, Thomas Smith, 39, and Katherine Burton, 53, CNN affiliate WXIN reported, citing Gorbett.

The bodies were found in Waynesville, about halfway between Indianapolis and Louisville, Kentucky.