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(9,494 posts)His Father (who was long divorced from my friend) gave it to him when he visited on Christmas. My friend was shocked and totally against the present. She was determined to get rid of it as soon as her ex left town to avoid arguments. Two weeks after Christmas this 18 year old accidentally shot and killed his best friend while showing him the gun. The boy he killed was the only son of a family who had sacrificed to send their exceptional son to to prep school and he was on his way to Princeton with early admissions and scholastic scholarships. My friend's son planned to accompany him to the same school. It seemed to me that everyone's life was destroyed. It shattered the lives of everyone who survived. You can hardly find any evidence of it on the internet because they had to hire a company that scrubs as much of it as possible. There are no testimonials on line, no Facebook pages of the people involved, only the original local newspaper reports.
My neighbor down the block killed his wife and held his son and daughter hostage at their home in N.J.. He lived in Pennsylvania and brought his arsenal with him. I have since moved.
Thirty years ago I saw a man have his head blown to bits in Tony's TV Bar in Barranquilla Colombia. People were supposed to check their guns at the door but somebody decided to dine with his.