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In reply to the discussion: How many here have had gun violence affect their lives? [View all]JustAnotherGen
(32,000 posts)8. 1991 - Cousin Murdered
A few months before he was to head to American U for Law School. He would have been another Cory Booker. The flawless golden boy (no saracsm) was held responsible for his own random murder on the initial police report as NHI. The person who rolled on his other drug dealing gang banger buddies was shot in the head in 1995. Justice? I don't know.
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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