Man charged with killing wife, son on boy’s 11th birthday

LAKE MARY, Fla. — A man was charged with fatally stabbing his wife and son on the boy’s 11th birthday, authorities said Saturday.

Nico Duzant ran from his home while his father, Franklyn Duzant, 40, chased him to a neighbor’s front yard Friday, said Seminole County Sheriff’s Lt. Dennis Lemma. The father repeatedly stabbed the boy with an “edged” object, Lemma said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities responding to the home found the body of the man’s wife, Evangeline Duzant, 52, who also was killed with the same object as her son, Lemma said.

A motive for the attacks was not known.

“It was just an absolute gruesome scene,” Lemma said. “We’re trying to repaint the picture of what led up to this.”

Franklyn Duzant underwent surgery at Orlando Regional Medical Center for injuries to his stomach, Lemma said. He was in stable condition Saturday.

“At this point, we don’t know how he the suspect got these injuries,” Lemma said. “We don’t know if they were self-inflicted or if there was a struggle.”

Duzant has been charged with two counts of first degree premeditated murder. Investigators have not had a chance to talk with him because he has been sedated, Lemma said.

First rule of a gun fight is … is to have a gun. If i was there and didnt have a gun … then what?

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As you might imagine, its all complicated.

It never was about defending one’s self or home, but of defending the country at a time when the United States didn’t have the funds to keep a large defensive standing army.

The tradition of mandatory weapons ownership and proficiency goes back to the days of the longbow in England. Every able-bodied man between twelve and sixty was required to own and practice with a longbow in the very likely event that the kingdom was invaded or their services otherwise needed for a war. That tradition went forward until modern times when private ownership of guns was severely curtailed – and the crime rates went down in England.

Today, a bunch of yahoos standing around with their OTC weapons in defense of the country (or more likely thinking about fighting against it) can be taken out from twenty miles away by a Predator drone or one round of artillery. The government has bigger, better guns. Private citizens don’t need them.

I have read a lot of stories where someone picks up a gun to shoot at someone else, but never have they successfully defended their own home before being robbed, beaten or nearly killed – at least not since 1978. I’m sure it happens, but in a country where over a million Americans have died by firearms (murder, suicide, accident, etc) since 1978 all for the sake of an Amendment which is no longer necessary (The U.S. can afford a large standing army today and doesn’t even want people to bring their own weapons to war with them), one would think the people would get tired of headlines in which a depressed family member slaughters the entire family and themselves with the gun they bought for “home protection”.

Given the number of times that kind of tragedy happens (pretty much daily), versus the number of times defending the home happens (almost never), the whole fallacy of owning a gun for home or personal protection pretty much falls apart.

Were it up to me, I’d ban the ownership of all single-handed guns and constitutionally define “arms” as, “a non-breach-loading, non-cartridge using, firearm, no less than 36 inches long, capable of an average rate of fire no greater than four rounds per minute.” That way hunters would be able to hunt and the home would be defended the way homes were back then – with a muzzle loader. They make excellent clubs once the gun’s been fired.

MY personal home defense weapon is a Wakizashi. The Katana I also have is a bit long for home defense. I have not had the occasion to use either of them on real people, but I can cut a pig’s head off in a single stroke with both of them. (Obviously, I’m not a pacifist!)

My feeling about guns is that they’re not terribly useful. If a person has to have a gun to feel safe or to defend themselves, they need to turn on their man-card and join the long line of cowards hiding behind a hunk of metal bathed in the blood of more Americans than have died in all of our wars combined.

Man, what a soup sandwich! Don’t want to do crack because I’ll probably like it. I guess I’ll just give in to the hope of the hopeless and buy a 40 oz., a lottery ticket and keep up with the Kardashians.