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A meteorologist's Facebook comments about guns and kids alarm his audience

The founder of iWeatherNet, a Facebook page and website that posts updates about Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta-area weather, commented about being armed and impatient when a child rang his doorbell.
A social media meteorologist posted comments about being armed when a 6-year-old girl rang his doorbell. His comments were alarming to some of his followers.

When Stefani Seeley moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area seven years ago, she was not used to the area's notoriously unpredictable weather.

So she turned to iWeatherNet, a Facebook page and website that posts regular updates about Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta-area weather for a loyal following. The website lists a number of contributors as part of its team, but founder Chris Robbins appears to run the entire Facebook account, with more than 115,000 followers,

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