Reply #8: My neice would be alive today if a knife instead of a gun had been used [View All]

[CTyankee]

in a domestic disturbance. Her step-grandfather was angry and drunk and always kept a loaded gun at the house "for protection." He had no criminal record. If he had wielded a knife she and her mother could have brought him down. He shot and killed my neice, shot and wounded her mother and grandmother and then turned the gun on himself. This was in 1987.

I wish I could say that was my only experience knowing someone shot dead, but we had a neighbor who shot and killed her husband in their driveway. This happened in the fifties, when I was a kid.

both incidences happened in Dallas.