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In reply to the discussion: People whom you know to have been shot [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)15. Two suicides by gun
that I knew personally.
The majority of shooting victims I dealt with were in ERs around Atlanta, so I didn't know them personally.
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My friend who served in Desert Storm and was assigned to bury bodies with a bulldozer blade was shot
NYC_SKP
Dec 2012
#1
I'll bet you catch yourself waiting to hear the name of the perp or the victim when there's a murder
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#61
I basically stopped counting in 1968 after my former high school classmate was killed in Vietnam...
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#16
I am Social Security age, and can honestly say no one I have known. or someone I knew
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#26
The sister of a friend who was murdered by a witness called to make a deposition.
yardwork
Dec 2012
#28
Thanks for this jberryhill, very poignant example of how we all know guns too well
SirRevolutionary
Dec 2012
#30
The husband of a former teaching colleague was one of several physics professors
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2012
#35
My father, one guy I knew in the Marines, several postal workers who shot themselves.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#36
2 with depression, one while I was sleeping, 1 was my sister-in-law's 18-yr old nephew. Then 2 my
judesedit
Dec 2012
#40
One time I was driving down the road broad daylight when a carful of young guys pulled up. One had
judesedit
Dec 2012
#41
One, my uncle. May there never be another gun death in my life or my family.
GreenPartyVoter
Dec 2012
#49
Grandfather to suicide (shotgun), friend to suicide (handgun), friend murdered (shotgun)
neverforget
Dec 2012
#67
My best friend at 15 was shot in the head by her boyfriend. Took her 3 days to die.
Care Acutely
Dec 2012
#70