Has gun violence ever touched you or someone you knew?

[quakerboy]

44. Mostly self inflicted gun things

Before I was introduced to this world, my grandfather occasionally enjoyed drunken delusions that neighborhood dogs were living under his house and liked to shoot through the floor, until his brothers found out and removed his gun from his possession.
When I was in grade school one of my friends shot himself dead.
In middle school a church friend shot himself, ending in paralysis and eventually death.
A couple years back my dad shot his own finger off. Accidentally. The man who taught me gun safety. That made an impression.

We were driving by Clackamas town center when that event occurred. Saw all the cops going offroad to get around stopped traffic on the highway, but just assumed it was a car accident until we heard the news later.

My sister has held educational programs for the kids at Sandy Hook Elementary. I didn't even think about her being in Connecticut and working in schools until she sent us an email saying "hey, I'm alright, wasn't working there this week"