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I'm a proud American. I observe Memorial Day. We need a Memorial Day for gun victims... (Original Post) wyldwolf May 2014 OP
. flamin lib May 2014 #1
Domestic Gun Deaths Since ’68 Are Greater Than All Our War Casualties Ever billh58 May 2014 #2
I wish. My own neice is one... CTyankee May 2014 #3
For your neice. I have no words. stone space May 2014 #4
oh, thank you! CTyankee May 2014 #6
I have friends and family billh58 May 2014 #5
glad you can relate...it's hard, isn't it? CTyankee May 2014 #7
Yes, it is hard to accept billh58 May 2014 #8
thank you, bill. I guess it is our shared pain that keeps us here on this thread... CTyankee May 2014 #9
We need a wall Kalidurga May 2014 #10
Like our children, the NRA billh58 May 2014 #11
Currently Kalidurga May 2014 #12
Yep, just like a Westboro Baptist Church campaign defacto7 May 2014 #13
I think it's a great idea. defacto7 May 2014 #14

billh58

(6,641 posts)
2. Domestic Gun Deaths Since ’68 Are Greater Than All Our War Casualties Ever
Mon May 26, 2014, 05:39 PM
May 2014

Your suggestion is more than fitting when you compare the numbers of deaths.

http://www.inquisitr.com/515151/domestic-gun-deaths-since-68-are-greater-than-all-our-war-casualties-ever/

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Through a comprehensive study of war-related deaths as published by the Congressional Research Service and icasualties.org (which provides Afghanistan and Iraq death tolls) Politifact was able to determine that 1,171,177 Americans have been killed at war since our nation was born.

Conversely, they pulled data from the CDC and FBI to calculate the total number of gun-related deaths in American since 1968. That number is 1,384,171.

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CTyankee

(64,889 posts)
6. oh, thank you!
Mon May 26, 2014, 05:53 PM
May 2014

her death, just 4 months after her marriage at age 23, was joyous and happy for my family. Her death, at the hands of her drunk and angry step-grandfather, was a huge family tragedy. So many of the family members involved are gone now, my brother, my mother, my father. I guess I'll carry the memory to my grave also...

CTyankee

(64,889 posts)
7. glad you can relate...it's hard, isn't it?
Mon May 26, 2014, 05:56 PM
May 2014

all these years later, i still carry in my memory her young face in that coffin...and my brother collapsing at her coffin side...it stays with me...

billh58

(6,641 posts)
8. Yes, it is hard to accept
Mon May 26, 2014, 06:07 PM
May 2014

that we as a nation allow our children to be slaughtered like livestock, and that is why I will continue to support sensible gun control regulations until I can no longer do so.

Please accept my condolences for the death of your niece and for your, and your family's, needless suffering.

Yes, it's hard...

CTyankee

(64,889 posts)
9. thank you, bill. I guess it is our shared pain that keeps us here on this thread...
Mon May 26, 2014, 06:11 PM
May 2014

it helps to know that there is someone else here that knows what my family went through...we share a bond...

defacto7

(13,559 posts)
13. Yep, just like a Westboro Baptist Church campaign
Tue May 27, 2014, 03:52 PM
May 2014

only with guns and hiding behind bushes.

I suppose it would take a counter protest of several magnitudes higher and right in their face. I think we could manage that.

defacto7

(13,559 posts)
14. I think it's a great idea.
Tue May 27, 2014, 04:02 PM
May 2014

And what could the NRA counter with? A national right to kill day? A national day to commemorate metal for being heavier than flesh? Sorry, but I could have been much more crude. I held back.

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