How many here have had gun violence affect their lives?

[LWolf]

65. The threat:

a drunken ex with a loaded shot gun explaining that I would not be allowed to leave him and live.

I didn't leave then. I left when it was safe to do so.

I'm a strong proponent of rigorously enforced, strict gun control.

I don't want anything to do with guns myself; I never have.

I've known plenty of gun owners; most are responsible. I live rurally, where everyone, including my students, own and shoot guns.

I truly understand that the real threat is the human behind the gun; that the gun is a tool. I get that.

I also get that the gun is deadly enough to make an error, a second of inattention or impulse, deadly and simply too late to recover from. I also know that there are simply too many fucked up people to assume that everyone is going to be responsible.

Guns. Few, far between, and rarely brought out of lock-up. That's my take.