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Demsrule86

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13. I used a gun once to save my life...stuck in the sticks in WVA...and a group of men tried to

Reply to MissMillie (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 16, 2022, 10:46 AM

Mar 2022

break-in. After I moved back to the burbs and had kids, I gave the family guns from Grandpa back to the family...they hunt. I don't want my kid around guns and in Georgia, it was hard as many had guns and didn't lock them up...I believe these 'accidental shootings should end with jail time for the kid shooters and parents that leave guns lying around.

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Pa. teen accidentally shoots 80-year-old woman in the head [View all] left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 OP

This is not an accident randr Mar 2022 #1

Where was that "Good Guy with a Gun"? nt doc03 Mar 2022 #2

This wasn't a 'Bad guy with a gun' situation ... PBC_Democrat Mar 2022 #3

That was the point according to Wayne LaPiere if everyone had a doc03 Mar 2022 #4

Which adult? atreides1 Mar 2022 #7

They're 18 nt XanaDUer2 Mar 2022 #16

People Control, Not Gun Control Sancho Mar 2022 #5

"This is my generic response" left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 #6

The license you propose needs to be prohibitively costly FakeNoose Mar 2022 #10

No 18 year old should have a gun unless he is in the military and on duty...so no...guns got to go Demsrule86 Mar 2022 #12

In all of my living years (and there have been a lot of them) MissMillie Mar 2022 #8

I used a gun once to save my life...stuck in the sticks in WVA...and a group of men tried to Demsrule86 Mar 2022 #13

I'm glad you had what you needed to defend yourself. MissMillie Mar 2022 #15

"Officials did not immediately know who fired the gun." DFW Mar 2022 #9

"playing with a gun" 'nuff said. nt Ilsa Mar 2022 #11

"Three 18 year old men...were playing with a gun." BlackSkimmer Mar 2022 #14