Mary Winkler was only protecting her children

TO THE EDITOR:

This is about Mary Winkler when she appeared on Oprah’s show. You know any woman in her right mind is going to protect her children. I believe she might have felt like she’s had enough of the abuse and mostly about how to protect her children.

People aren’t looking at the fact that he would put his hand over the baby’s mouth and hold the baby’s nose. Why doesn’t anybody believe that could have smothered the baby, or that the man had a bad temper that was uncontrollable the way Mary says he had?

I wonder would people have been happy if he would have killed her and the children? I don’t think so.

My question is why does the government give people the right to bear arms, and to protect themselves? Yet when something bad happens, the person who shoots the gun gets in trouble. People, this doesn’t make sense.

Of course my sympathy goes out to Mr. Winkler’s family. I know they had to be hurt in all of this but they need to realize they still have their wonderful grandchildren and I believe Mary was trying to protect her children.

Why was the shotgun in the house? Did anyone have a hunting license or was it there for threats? Did they think a deer, or bears, or a wild boar would come in the house? The shotgun was loaded.

This is a sad situation, that it had to come to that just to protect those wonderful children. I hope Mary and Mr. Winkler’s family can work something out for the children’s sake. It’s bad enough losing their dad, but taking away their mother is not the answer. Those children need their mother and grandparents too. They need to be loved. No one should ever get killed and have to go this far and kill someone.

Lisa Wilkinson
Spring Street
Spencer