re: People are way too afraid of guns these days

I mentioned this on here before, but I had a neighbor on each side of my home, when I was in my preteens/teenage years who were both shot. In both cases, the gun "wasn't" loaded.

One, the girl shot herself. Long story short, some guys kept calling her house telling them they were coming over to get her. She had just graduated high school and her parents were on vacation. She went grab her dad's gun, which she knew how to shoot, but for whatever reason thought it was unloaded, she was just going to scare the guys. She had a friend with her and she told the girl "what I am going to shoot myself". Cock, click... boom. My dad & I were outside, first ones to see her hanging off the side of the recliner lifeless with blood pouring out of her head.

The second one, was a few years later, the guy was my friend. It happened on a 4th of July. He was at another guy's house laying on the bed reading a magazine. The guy whose house he was out pulled a shot gun out of the closet, aimed it at my friend. They told him to chill out, dude laughed and said "it aint event loaded" raised it up again & pointed it at my friend, pulled trigger & bam. If my friend wasn't resting his head on his hand, it would have killed him, but his wrist took a lot of the impact. He still had to stay in the hospital for while, they had to do several surgeries on his face, he had to regain muscle in his wrist, etc.

In high school, I knew a several other people who were killed by a gunshot. In most cases it was due to misuse of a gun. You always here "I don't understand, they knew how to use a gun". I am not scared of guns, I am scared of people when they have guns.