UTAH STATE PRISON — Each morning David Ragsdale wakes up in a high-security prison cell and remembers that he shot his wife in a church parking lot on her birthday.
"The thought of what I did never goes away," he said in an exclusive interview to be printed in Friday morning's Deseret News.
When Ragsdale fired 12 gunshots at his wife, Kristy, on Jan. 6, it was the first time he had ever used his 9mm pistol — a gun the concealed weapons permit holder kept in his car's glove box for personal and family protection.
In his mind, he's the painfully perfect poster child for gun control.
Ragsdale insists he would not have killed his wife without immediate access to a gun.
"I probably would have parked my car, sat there and regained my composure," he said about that snowy Sunday morning in Lehi.
The complete story will be available at 10:30 p.m. tonight at deseretnews.com.