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In reply to the discussion: Another day in America where we need nothing short of repealing the 2A and confiscating all guns. [View all]CTyankee
(63,911 posts)My niece was killed by a family member who had a gun to protect his family against intruders who would rob and perhaps kill his family members. While I am not insinuating that this could happen to you, I beg you to see another side of a horrible tragedy, one that my family lived through.
My niece's killer was not a man intent on killing her. He kept the gun, loaded and available, to protect his family and home. But his wife was dying of cancer and she had cut him out of her will and he became enraged. My niece was one of her grandmother's caregivers in her last days. She and her mother were victims of this man's rage. He was drunk at the time. He shot and wounded the grandmother, the mother and my niece. The latter was the only casualty. The rest survived the assault. The shooter then killed himself.
I call this the 3 A's of this kind of murder: alcohol, anger and accessibility of a loaded gun. He did not aim at his grandniece and had no intention of killing her, he just began shooting. Alcohol and rage rendered him incapable of controlling himself.
To his dying day my brother adamantly refused to call his daughter's killing an "accident." He called it murder.