Anyone ever lose someone from a gun shot?

[Seesm]

I remembered one... Yeah my buddy from Modesto... He was depressed after he got a DUI and his Dad came down pretty hard on him.

He went into his bedroom at his pops house with his Sis and Pop home... And ate a 12 guage shell...

Bummer he was a silly fun kid. Really surprised alot of us...

[sniper5]

Several. Accidental, intentional, self inflicted and inflicted by others.

[WeekendWarrior]

Stockton PD officer John Hernandez shot and Killed my Brother In law through his front door in my back yard this time last year.

RIP brother June.

Too sad, looked up the story, sounds like the cop had an itchy trigger finger in this case. RIP for your brother, what a tragic story.

[Stormfeather]

Sadly enough, it seems many of us have been affected by the violence that is inherent to firearms. Yet, we all stand strong in our belief in the 2A.
Ive lost so many friends and a couple family members over the years that its almost mind-numbing now that I think about it.

1- Co-worker named Mike B. that worked at the same gun store as I did, he and his wife offed themselves in a Lodi motel room. Apparently the wife had a incurable health problem, and Mike couldnt live without her. The sad part was, Mike and I both witnessed a suicide on the range one time, and he told me he would never go out that way. He used to be a suicide prevention counselor, of all things.

http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2006/12/19/news/0_bodies_061216.txt

Next was a girl that used to live right down the road from me when I was a younger guy. This happened earlier this year back where I grew up at. Barb was a good kid, very friendly, nice, and the type who wouldnt hurt a soul. Apparently her husband and his lover thought it would be a good idea to kill her so they could be together, so he went fishing and his gf went over to the house and shot her in front of her 5 kids. I wish I could be on that jury.

http://www.waynecountysheriff.com/announcements.htm

and the list goes on and on. . . . .

[masameet]

A cop in my town. He witnessed me riding my motorcycle across the sidewalk and down a handicap ramp. (His police cruiser was parked down the street, with the sun right on the windshield, so I couldn't tell if somebody was in it. lol) That's a 2-point violation, he said after pulling me over. But instead of a ticket, he ordered me never again to ride my bike on the sidewalk or up and down the handicap ramp. And I've kept my word. A little over a month later he made sergeant. He'd told me about the promotion and I wish I'd gone to the ceremony. Over the next few months as he drove by in his cruiser we'd wave to each other. A couple of times we chatted. The last time he gave me some firearms advice (he was the SWAT/tactical guy in the dept.). I can still picture him in his cruiser that warm July afternoon, wearing that big smile of his and his nifty dark sunglasses, the sunlight reflecting off the dash and lighting him up. Handsome guy. A few weeks later he traded shots with an angry meth head bent on killing his estranged wife. In spite of his armored vest, Sgt. Starzyk took two to the chest and died. I cried for days.

[Sillyguy]

this thread makes me sad.

[HeyZeus]

My great grandfather got into an argument with his neighbors over there dog. He shot the dog then the whole family. Then he offed himself. This was in riverside county in the early fifty's. He had killed two robbers in front of my grandpa when he was a kid. This was in the mid twenty's. He was taking food they had grown to market on a horse drawn buggy. They were robbed he pulled a gun and ended the robbers life.

My first wife's aunt was raped and brutally murdered by what they believe were gang bangers in the local park she would jog through. One of the aunt's twin sons was murdered many years later at a church function by gang bangers.

Another friend I grew up with was murdered by gang bangers but he was one too. I am ok with this he got what he deserved for being a scum banger. Gang bangers should just die.

Another friend died from a heart attack from using meth all his life, dumbs**t.

[NSR500]

Thankfully I have not lost anyone close to me in life.
Over the Summer I did have a short term roommate in TX who was a victim of a failed car jacking.
He was still a bit green having only been in TX for a short while. He had gone out to a manual car wash on the fringe of Houston and got picked out by some thieves. A fight over the car broke out when he defended the vehicle because his children were in the car with his GF. He beat on the two guys until a third showed up and shot him 4 times in the back, then left him for dead.
He did make a full recovery but had become wary of guns. So, one day I took him out shooting and he came back around to accepting that firearms are merely tools that can be misused. He did give serious consideration on getting his TX CHL, but ended up moving away.

[inbox485]

Most of the stories here seem to be either:
1 - violence from dirtbags
2 - Suicide
The first is an over discussed topic already. The second seems to be avoided more. My take on it is that people intent to kill themselves will find a way. Eating a bullet is only marginally simpler than hanging your self (I can't see ever killing myself, but if I were to, I think I would hang myself with a loaded gun duck taped to my hand as a final eF U to the brady bunch - my brother said he would sky dive naked and aim for a really expensive car - perhaps I could combine both and sky dive naked with a gun taped to my hand and try to land on Sarah Brady's car). But really, it would be wise to read up on ways the military uses to evaluate their peers for indicators and if they see them in a person, take the time to intervene. Suicide is a moment of weakness that lasts a lifetime. Being there for others when we see signs of weakness is a mark of an upstanding human being.

[IrishPirate]

Haven't lost anyone, thank God, but my older brother is a few grains heavier now thanks to some wanna be thugs. That's what he gets for living in Fresno!

[BIGCHRIS]

I lost a buddy a back in May of 08 of course it was his fault seeing as the "line of work" he delt in, he was shot in the back of the head at a Sacramento Park and Ride by his "best friend" http://cbs13.com/crime/Body.Sacramen....2.716648.html

[six10]

Long ago, in grade school. Two classmates, vacationing at the home of one's grandparents, found an old (but loaded) gun in grandpa's barn and decided to play "Cowboys and Indians" (-that should give you some idea how many decades ago this happened). The "Indian" got shot and died immediately. The "Cowboy", having accidentally killed his best friend, was understandably shattered emotionally (they were both just twelve years old) and he, too, died young, unfortunately (drug overdose).
I just bought my first gun(s) this year (after experiencing a home invasion without one); what happened to those boys (and those of us who'd known them for years) is what kept me from ever owning a gun until recently.

[retired]

A guy I went to high school with was one of the school bullies....no he was a complete idiot and also a druggie. A couple of years after high school I heard he was playing Russian Roulette with some guys. He pulled the trigger and it went click.

He walked out of the location to leave, but turned around and tried it one more time.....boom. No big loss in the general scheme of things.

Another guy was AWOL from the service after high school (post 1968). They found him up in Big Bear in a cabin with a bullet between his eyes. A drug deal gone bad....for him at least.

Thankfully, no one close to me was ever killed by a gun.

Some of you have written some really sad stories about family members and friends being killed and killing themselves.

[Afterburnt]

Yes. I dont know why I looked at this thread.

[NorCalMama]

One person I knew and two that I had never met but were either related to me or to my husband's family.
My parent's neighbor shot himself on Thanksgiving 4 years ago. It was so bizarre. I remember hearing a siren and then about 3 days later my mom asked me, "Did you hear Daryl shot himself?" I was speechless. Just surreal the whole thing.
My grandmother's brother shot himself when he was 13. My great grandfather was horribly abusive-he would beat all of his kids and was just a cruel person. So, after years of abuse I guess he just couldn't take it any more and he killed himself. He used a .22 rifle.
I don't know the details of this, but my husband's uncle's dad shot himself as well. He apparently had many "issues" and ended up taking his life many many years ago. Like with my great uncle, he too used a .22 rifle.