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In reply to the discussion: How many here have had gun violence affect their lives? [View all]rurallib
(62,477 posts)accidental shooting is a shooting
Suicide of a friend or family member surely affects those left behind often wondering what they could have done to have intervened or if it was their fault. When U had to tell my FIL his brother committed suicide I felt like I was killing my FIL.
A threat with a gun is a brush with death, or a brush with death for whatever family or friend was threatened.
What I was simply trying to illustrate is that gun violence is so pervasive in our society that a majority of our citizens have been affected by gun violence - accidental or on purpose - to themselves or someone close enough to them that it affected their lives.
As I said before, I have seen many family and friends affected by guns and each incidence has left a mental scar.