If you live with a gun owner, you're 2X more likely to be murdered

[kimbutgar]

8. In the 80's I dated a cop who kept his gun by his bedside

He told me a story that his ex girl friend and him got into an argument and she pulled the gun on him. I only dated him a few times and on our last date we went to Santa Cruz beach and he had the gun in his cooler. I knew then and there I could never seriously date him. I was able to end the relationship easily because I was newly divorced and told him I wasn’t emotionally ready for a relationship. We still stayed friends as he lived on my street. But that gun freaked me out because I knew then having guns in your home could lead to gun deaths of the owners and family members. My aunt in the 1930’s had a gun in her home and her 6 year old son was playing with the gun and he shot his 4 year brother who died. My memory of this second cousin is that was sad all his life over the guilt. And my aunt never seemed to forgive him. They had a such a strained relationship that he was sent to live with my grandmother.

My mother hated guns so much and refused to ever have one in our home.