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Originally posted by RANDY P
1) 1/2 drunk at a party in my youth, by a couple of pissed off kids with stolen pieces, shooting at things in the house. Stolen guns, not supposed to have them to begin with.
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And I suppose that you guys did nothing to exacerbate the situation? Not that your behavior justifies someone shooting, but having been a drunk youth on many an occasion, I know how those situations go.
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2) I spent a short amount of time shacking up in a duplex on Rainier Ave ( a slum area, don't ask why) next to section 8 housing, new years eve, years ago. A*hole immigriant in the next building with a 22 LR steps out and starts shooting at our bottles around us. Problem was, bottle was about 2 feet right where I was sitting. We were noisy. Wasn't supposed to have them again.
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hmmm....sounds like part of my "lost years". I lived in section 8 apartments in Santee for awhile. The one time I was almost shot I was in that apartment, and I was somewhat involved in illegal and nefarious goings on...
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I have 2 friends who have been executed in robberies, (2 guys, adults) who may have had a fighting chance had they been armed.
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Tragic, but the reality is they might *not* have had a fighting chance if they were armed.
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Have another friend killed in a car jacking just after Christmas, 92. They wanted his wheels, and he didn't have a gun.
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again, tragic, but I don't know that having a gun in the glove compartment would have changed things. Thug comes up to the window with a gun and sees the driver reach for the glove compartment, what do you think the thug would do?
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A zillion stories of relatives involved in disputes in parent's native country where a firearm could've saved your ass. Or did.
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and a zillion stories in the US of kids accidentally killing other kids, family members mistakenly killing other friends or family, or loved ones killing each other in a fit of rage/passion because there was a gun around.
One of the great horrors of history, but I don't think that you'd get the same opinion from all survivors. Nice touch by the pro-gun parties to use the holocaust as a rallying cry. The anti-gun can counter with pictures of kids with their heads blown off. It's all bad...
As long as you don't shoot me or my family by accident (or on purpose), you may keep you gun
