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otohara

(24,135 posts)
6. No, Cuz I Just Found This Out
Tue Oct 15, 2013, 04:41 PM
Oct 2013

and it's been on my mind, so yeah I am really glad there were no guns in our house, back in the 70's I never would have thought twicce about it, but so many women are killed by their abusive drunk husbands. - one of us would be dead. most likely me.

I also think about my neighbor who's ex took their only kid and pulled a murder suicide on her boy a couple years ago. She's a broken woman ... it's heartbreaking, not natural and a visual she can't shake.

I went to the how many people have been killed since Newtown yesterday and it's always depressing we're at 9334 killed by guns, but over this past weekend there were 62 people killeld in two days including 4 children. It makes me angry, scared and sick about my country.

I have a real hard time buying into the "responsible gun owner" meme because if that were true - why so many dead? Many are responsible until they aren't. Guns terrify me - the NRA wants this entire country to be open carry - if that day comes I will never leave the house.



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