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In reply to the discussion: How many here have had gun violence affect their lives? [View all]Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)40. Forgot one when I listed incidents in reply #13
A guy who was mostly just an acquaintance from a tavern, way back in my drinking days, who was the lead suspect in a brutal rape/ strangulation murder, but was never charged. His wife, who was in the Air Force at the time, divorced him over it and got transferred to Nellis AFB, near Las Vegas.
The guy followed her out there. Months later he was found dead by multiple gun shots in a ditch on a perimeter road just outside the base.
Failrly good chance some others have slipped my mind, over time.
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I've had extended family AND close friends affected, both, as victims and perpetrators ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#3
does a drunk & buck naked former college roommate pointing a loaded assault rifle in my face count?
corkhead
Jun 2016
#22
perhaps some of the gun control laws suggested may not have helped in these cases
rurallib
Jun 2016
#45
My best friend in Jr. high school was shot in the head and killed by her BF
Maru Kitteh
Jun 2016
#43
one of my dear friends killed himself, one of my friends was shot by her husband (she
niyad
Jun 2016
#47
One close friend committed suicide by gun after his wife was raped and stabbed to death.
FrodosPet
Jun 2016
#67