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In reply to the discussion: I'm 55 years old and have never owned a gun in my life. [View all]PrMaine
(39 posts)I've known two people who accidentally shot themselves with guns - neither died from the experience but one lost some use of his left hand. I also have a friend who tried to kill himself with a knife several years ago; if he had had a gun he would probably have succeeded. I know two other people who accidentally shot other people - severely disrupting their own lives as well as their victims.
I know only one person who claims to have defended herself using a gun - and I have my doubts about the story. Apparently she heard some noise in the woods around her rural home and, after shooting a gun into the air as a warning a car drove off. I've sometimes wondered whether it was just someone re-leaving themselves in the bushes. I've also wondered where that stray bullet, shot into the air, might have come down.