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In reply to the discussion: People whom you know to have been shot [View all]99Forever
(14,524 posts)34. Mike Donnelly...
... age 13 or 14, a 9th grade friend of mine at Nathan Hale Jr High in Omaha, Nebr. (in 1968, if I remember correctly) shot and killed by an accidental shotgun blast when and some friends were "playing with dad's unloaded gun."
Mike Hammers, my best friend and workmate at Triland Foods in Sgt Bluffs, Ia., also shot and killed by another "accidental shotgun blast" when a gunfreak buddy aimed an "unloaded 12 gauge" at him and "jokingly" pulled the trigger. Early 1990s.
There are more, but that bummed me out enough for one day.
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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