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Several years ago, on a Sunday night, we got a call at around 11. IT was the police. They were trying to get hold of my wifes cousin. There had been a shooting.
His mother and father had been helping another couple through rough times. The guys wife had cancer and Uncle Bill and wife had been helping take care of her, including taking her to chemo treatments.
So Sunday evening, they came to Uncle Bill's for a visit. They were sitting in the living room talking about what was going on, when the guy got up, pulled a revolver out of his back pocket and started shooting.
The first shot hit Aunt M in the face, right below her eye. As she toppled, he shot her again, striking her in the arm and chest. In the meantime, Uncle Bill (at 6'4") had gotten up and tried to rush the guy. He shot him all four times, almost point blank. Two in the chest, and two to the face. His jaw was blown apart. He staggered with each shot. But he chased the guy out of the house and locked the door. HE then staggered back to the living room, but collapsed between the couch and the wall. The way he went down saved his life, as it put pressure on the chest wounds.
The guys wife called 911. Her husband later called police to turn himself in, when he could not find anyone home at his ministers house. He had intended to kill his wife, Uncle Bill and Aunt M, and his pastor and family.
Uncle Bill and Aunt M survived, crippled, disfigured. The shooter was out of jail before they got out of rehab. As a matter of fact, he lived on my route, and worked in a local chemical plant, and that was after the shooting.
Uncle Bill was just like you. Before the shooting. Afterward, he had at least 6 guns in the house and one in the car.
So, I respect your views. You can have any you like. And as corny as it sounds, the rights for you to have the views you do were won for you by someone with a gun. And paid for by many of their lives.
Now you have a better idea of where I am coming from.
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