There were guards that ended their vigilance. He was armed in his home. But he could not stop the gunman.

Authorities are saying it was a single gunman leaving fired shells all around the scene. 

Why didn't the personal weapon stop the gunman? 

Huh? 

Why did this murder happen? 

He was a trained professional with a dead deputy and he and his wife are dead.

If the guns weren't in the hands of criminals this couple would still be alive.

Texas has been an incubator for NRA policy. And look at this. I don't think so.

...McLelland said he carried a gun (click here) everywhere around town, a bedroom community for the Dallas area. He figured assassins were more likely to try to attack him outside. He said he had warned all his employees to be constantly on the alert.

"The people in my line of work are going to have to get better at it," he said of dealing with the danger, "because they're going to need it more in the future."

The number of attacks on prosecutors, judges and senior law enforcement officers in the U.S. has spiked in the past three years, according to Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the Santa Clara County, Calif., district attorney's office who tracks such cases.

Neighbors said sheriff's deputies were parked in the McLelland's driveway for about a month after Hasse's slaying....