Poll: do you personally know someone killed by a gun?

[SoonerPride]

Last edited Tue Mar 23, 2021, 10:01 PM - Edit history (1)

I’m the discussion thread I posted on this took. it was suggested that this question should have been a poll.

It is utterly heartbreaking how many of you do know someone killed by a firearm.

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising but it still is.

America is a truly fucked up nation.

54 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited
	Yes - suicide
	17 (31%)
	Yes - during a domestic incident
	5 (9%)
	Yes - during a robbery or other crime
	7 (13%)
	Yes - killed by a police weapon
	2 (4%)
	Yes - by accident
	3 (6%)
	Yes - a victim in a mass shooting
	1 (2%)
	No - I have not known anyone personally killed by a gun
	13 (24%)
	Yes - for multiple reasons listed above.
	6 (11%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[tosh]

1. Numbers 1,3 and 5.

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

[dweller]

3. Need an option

1 or more of the categories listed

✌🏻

[Auggie]

4. Happened decades ago

Disgruntled investor murdered one of his partners. With a gun.

Nice guy, originally from Germany, living in the Bay Area. Had dinner with him a few months before.

On edit: I guess this falls under the "robbery or other crime" option

[yewberry]

5. Also suggesting an option for one or more.

I've got two.

[CountAllVotes]

7. +1

n/t

[CountAllVotes]

6. No options for several

1. Suicide
2. Accident
3. Robbery
4. Murder
5. Murder

I've had more than my share of gun related deaths needless to say and yes, I HATE guns!

[AndyS]

8. Yes,

#1 as an attempted suicide, not successful.
#2 dispute over an unmarried partner, deceased.
#3 murdered, not solved, no motive.
#3 murdered during robbery at a gun store.

[phylny]

21. Many years ago as a student speech-language pathologist I was given orders to evaluate a man who

had failed in his suicide attempt. He was the father of two young children.

I will never forget him: Young, maybe in his 20s, with red hair and an entrance wound on the his right temple, exit wound on his left. The gunshot wounds were still horribly black and raw. He was on the bed playing with his genitals when I arrived to see him. He spoke nothing but nonsense and had no idea what he was doing. He would never be the same man, husband, or father.

Yes, I hate guns.

[MerryBlooms]

9. 5 in the last three generations of my family.

[riversedge]

10. I voted suicide but can only vote once. Also know 2 domestic violence killings.

[LanternWaste]

11. My first high school crush some years later at the hands of an estranged boyfriend.

In 1986, my first high school crush some years after graduation at the hands of an estranged boyfriend.

In 1993, my father by his own hands (to avoid the consequences of late stage cancer)

In 2015, my off-his-meds, substance abusing brother by his own hands.

In 2017, his surviving wife of twenty two years during a shooting spree at a Texas church.




As an American male in his mid-fifties, I'm guessing my experiences are pretty typical. More's the pity.

[Tracer]

12. Not personally, but second hand.

An acqaintance of my daughter was shot and killed by the ex-husband of a woman he was dating.

I do know someone who was shot at a party that got out of control. but he survived.

[jaysunb]

13. 1 - 5. NT

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. 3 suicides and 1 Accident

The accident was a 6th grade student of mine.

[Auggie]

15. Just remembered two suicides in the family

So: two deaths by suicide, one by other crime.

[dawg day]

16. I needed two options

Crime and domestic.

A student of mine was shot by her husband for the life insurance. He was an attorney. Of course he said a black man broke into their house and killed her. Of course, he'd done it.

It was during winter break. I'd just given her an A for the semester.

[haele]

17. Several.

3 suicides, 1 domestic violence, 1 gas station robbery.
Not counting the 1/2 dozen to combat or insurgent activity.

Haele

[ShazzieB]

18. An aunt of mine committed suicide with a gun.

It was decades ago, long before I was born, so I technically didn't "know" her; but I still feel like it counts.

My mother always swore it was an accident, but another aunt assured me that it was suicide, and I believe her. (My mom was too young to fully understand what was going on at the time, and the aunt who told me about it was an adult when it happened and therefore in a much better position to know the score.)

[LeftInTX]

19. My friend's sister was shot and killed by an angry next door neighbor

She was in her yard.

There had been arguments between her BF and the neighbor previously. This was in 1974 or 75

[xmas74]

20. Suicide,domestic,crime and accident

Guns are pretty damn prevalent in Missouri.

[hatrack]

22. One suicide, two murders

The first was a pretty close friend, depressive, who shot himself at 22.

The second was an older acquaintance (he'd been an assistant Scoutmaster in my troop) who was murdered about five years after I left Boy Scouts. He'd have been around 40 at the time. He taught at the local university and a student hid outside his house and shot him in the head because he'd flunked his class.

The third was a fairly close friend from high school and later (a fellow fast-food drudge like me at the time). He was murdered in some sort of drive-by random shooting.

[susanr516]

23. Three cases

Two suicides, one murder. All of them were my relatives. One uncle, two cousins.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. A work friend was shot and killed by his girlfriend.

[catrose]

25. Multiple suicides, several accidents that could be

[Duppers]

26. My husband's uncle

Was killed by his own son, after years of abuse. The whole family was understanding; his gma paid for her grandson's defense atty after he killed her son.

There was a long generational history of alcoholism & abuse in that family. They were really fucked up.

My husband luckily escaped it, except for his crazy alcoholic mother & passive/aggressive father. He move 100's of miles away for college & never returned. We were estranged from his side of the family most of our lives and never have had any contact with any of them for decades now.

[XanaDUer2]

27. Son of a friend

young man. He was buying drugs then shot through his eye. EDIT- THIS happened way back in the early 80s in South Florida

[jxla]

28. 1977 friend murdered; 2000 brother suicide

In August 1977 a friend (Cathine Rada Brooks) and her next-door duplex neighbor were murdered in the neighbor's apt by a guy (Robert E Williams) that my friend didn't know, but the neighbor and I both did. I didn't know her neighbor, but we knew a lot of the same people.

Ironically Cathy and Williams had both babysat my toddler daughter so I could go to a weekly class (Cathy) or run errands (Williams - once)

When Cathy's 5-yr-old daughter woke up the next day and couldn't find her Mommy she called Cathy's BFF Annie who I've known since kindergarten.

Our parents were neighbors. I was at my parent's house when Annie's mom called to ask if I knew Cathy and tell them the news.

This article was published in December 1997 just before Williams was executed 20 years after the murders.

https://omaha.com/townnews/crime/families-of-robert-e-williams-victims-remember-the-lives-he-took/article_3f5fb46b-9f6d-5c3d-90e9-d194b0d2e2c5.html

Williams has his very own entry on Murderpedia.com
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w1/williams-robert.htm