This was May, 2013. (graphic photo warning)

[Robb]

Sometimes a photo is graphic not for what is shown, but for what it represents.

"Because behind every number there's a real person with a story and loved ones that are struggling to cope."




https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gun-Death-Tally-Faces-of-the-Dead/552514904768968

(hat tip to DUer BainsBane for finding this ambitious Facebook project, please share it if you do that sort of thing.)

[immoderate]

1. I can't rec this.

It's heartbreaking.

--imm

[awoke_in_2003]

18. There are many I don't want to rec...

but sometimes you just have to for exposure.

[Carolina]

2. I can, K&R

These faces and the others at the link need to plastered on billboards, outside gun shops, outside the NRA headquarters, and all over Capitol Hill!

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Kick and rec

You know - if you out Starbucks in the title . . . .

[1awake]

4. I probably don't agree with your stance, but

I'll give you a kick @ Rec because this should be seen by all sides.

[Robb]

5. "Fewer guns, not more guns, is the better direction."

That's my stance in less than 10 words.

[1awake]

6. I have guns, more than one.

But I would be open to ideas where we could meet in the middle somewhere. I'm assuming most of these deaths were of the accidental variety, which totally pisses me off (if I'm wrong, call me on it). I'm not a "gun enthusiast" though, just a guy from the hills who mostly hunts (eat what we kill).

[Robb]

7. Until fairly recently, so did I.

I suspect we would agree on a lot of things.

[Keefer]

8. I use my guns for...

self defense. I have no children, so I don't worry about keeping them loaded around the house.

[1awake]

9. I have my knives for self defense

though I am trained with them. Mine are for hunting only... well.. some target practice to. As far as loaded (and I'm not directing this at you) a gun is always loaded, even when it isn't. I do have children, and I keep my guns under multiple locks and then inside a safe under a combination.

**** - Going way of the intention of this post. It was to highlight the multiple deaths of children caused by not the least of which would be guns. ( Granted adult's stupidity is a large contributing factor.)

[Control-Z]

10. You must live in a dangerous area.

I would feel differently about guns if I needed them to defend my life every time I left the house. I'm glad that hasn't ever been the case. I'm sorry it is for you.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Do you have a bunch of pissed off people looking for you?

[jtuck004]

14. "I'm assuming most of these deaths were of the accidental". Actually, no, most were murders. Various

reasons, shot while someone was shooting at someone else, victims of gang initiations (victims not gang members) , killed by their parents...

Like the kid in the middle with the glasses, shot 5 times in the face by his mom with a .22 she purchased that day at a pawn shop. Shot herself too but survived.

Lots of intentional violence out there. With legally owned guns. Like the ones I have. But in the hands of people who weren't in a state that they should have had access to them.

We really need to fix that, because it is just going to get hotter, and worse, as we go forward.

[1awake]

15. agreed. n/t

[Robb]

19. Hear, hear. nt

[Mojorabbit]

31. +1000 nt

[rl6214]

11. Didn't you make a mistake?

Didn't you mean to put this in your own little clubhouse?

[tkmorris]

12. Take your personal issues and snark elsewhere

Address the post, not the poster.

[rl6214]

25. Tell them to not instantly ban anyone with an opposing view in the gun control forum

Then we can discuss the issues.

[DeSwiss]

16. Thank you for identifying yourself to me.

I-bined.

[MH1]

21. Don't want this too widely discussed, now do we? nt

[rl6214]

24. Tell that to the people running the gun control forum

Question anything they post and its an instant ban.

They are the one that object to and don't want any discussion.

[Loudly]

28. I thought that's why the RKBA forum exists.

So each side can sing from its respective hymnal.

[irisblue]

32. srsly dude?

if there is any hope of a gungeoneer converting other DUers to your beliefs you aren't offering it here. Srsly, it won't work

[Iliyah]

13. I follow the gun violence deaths everyday

and it does seem like America has moved on with other more pressing issues (not). I read recently that Dems could not handle multiple issues which is total bullshit. I heart this and thank you so much!

K & R

[Robb]

20. Kick. nt

[Electric Monk]

22. +

[Ohio Joe]

23. MORE GUNS!!!!!!

Somehow... That is always the answer of the gun nut... So very sad.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

26. Wow

[ZombieHorde]

29. Sad. nt