Has gun violence ever touched you or someone you knew?

[socialist_n_TN]

50. At least 3 times just off the top of my head...........

Although I guess one of the incidents was more of a gun accident than violence. That was when my boss's .380 went off when he slammed the drawer it was in. The idiot had a round chambered. The bullet missed me by about 2 feet and a co-worker by about 3. It hit the wall right between us. Luckily (?) it hit the wall at about knee level, so even if it had struck one of us, it probably wouldn't have been fatal. Even though he was my boss, I STILL gave him a sound verbal thrashing about that one. When it takes about a fifth of a second to chamber a round, there's no reason to have one chambered. It's just asking for trouble especially with an automatic.

Also, I had a gun pulled on me and a couple of friends once when I was doing something I shouldn't have been. That wound up being a robbery.

But the most distressing incident occurred when my friend Rob's girlfriend was murdered in a bank robbery along with several other bank employees. I knew Tanya, but not as well as I knew Rob. That was over 40 years ago and I still remember him showing up on my doorstep the day it happened.

I think there were a couple other incidents too, but I just can't think of them off the top of my head. I probably want to block them out.