Have you experienced senseless gun violence in your neighborhood.

[David G]

Re: Have you experienced senseless gun violence in your neighborhood.

Yes, maybe 20 years ago.

There's a dirt road along the edge of our neighborhood. My sweetie went out for her morning run and discovered a car with its doors flung open. I went to investigate and found the driver slumped over dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Turned out to be a drug deal gone bad, and a passenger had been shot as well. She escaped, ran around the corner and died in the front yard of the first house she came to. I ended up testifying to my small bit when the shooter was tried and convicted. Since then.... no

[paxtonm]

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A few years ago, when we lived in California, three shots were fired into the house across the street. Before that, when our daughters were little kids, the girls and I were waiting in a parking lot outside of a hotel across the street from Disneyland. I hear pop! pop! pop! in rapid succession and a guy in a hoodie runs into a multistory parking garage as I herded the kids up against the building. Dumbass fired INTO the parking lot at the "Happiest Place on Earth". Seconds later, a squad car, code 3, comes screaming into the lot and I just pointed into the parking structure. In college, I had a gun pointed at my face because somebody else hit the idiot's car with a snowball. Brash, I said something to the effect of "You're really going to shoot somebody over a snowball?" I wouldn't respond that way today. So yeah, I've experienced enough first-hand, more than enough. And that doesn't begin to include the carnage I experienced in my years as a reporter at a daily newspaper.

Go ahead, ask me how I feel about the Second Amendment.

[AndyG]

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13 years ago, 28 miles north of me.
Not my neighbourhood, but the closest yet..

27 years ago, fifteen miles NE of where I was at the time.

Nothing since.

...See how easy that is? Change The Law.

Andy

[David W Pratt]

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Something like 80+% of the firearm related deaths in VT are suicides, most of the rest seems to be drug dealing related, or the end stage of domestic violence.

[Joe (SoCal)]

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Something like 80+% of the firearm related deaths in VT are suicides, most of the rest seems to be drug dealing related, or the end stage of domestic violence.

Yet another reason having a gun in the home makes you LESS safe. I’ve always been puzzled why insurance actuaries don’t do the same math they do on other known morbidity issues like smoking etc and charge more for homeowners that have a gun in the house.

[LeeG]

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When I was ten a “friend” thought it would be funny to shoot a shotgun at me w the powder and shot removed and only the primer shooting the wad. Nothing since then.

[Nicholas Scheuer]

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A 9mm round through a window sash facing the street at 4:00 am. Bullet went through a 1.5" space between brick and insulating glass. Police found the casing in the street. Seemed to be from an individual walking along the street with nothing better to do. Not a drive-by, I was awake and would have heard a car. I'm armed now. Need to replace the dog who would always sound off when someone came through a door, giving me time to unlock the carbine and take a position (one of several) with a good view for me but not him or her.

[LeeG]

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I forgot. About 15 yrs ago a .22 round went through the siding in my dad’s apt and lodged in his upper arm. Just a territorial disagreement amongst some youth in his neighborhood.

[Brian Palmer]

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I lived in Chapel Hill, NC, when there was a mass shooting in January 1995. Two killed and two wounded. The shooter had an old military rifle and was tackled when he had to reload. One of the dead, a college student, died at the end of my block. I had to get past a police barricade to get home. There was still a pool of blood at the spot later that night and vigil there the next night.

I volunteer at a community bike shop in Harrisburg PA in the Allison Hill neighborhood. There have been several shootings in a radius of a few blocks in the past 3 years the shop has been there, but luckily none when we happen to be open.

[TerryLL]

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Been hit twice by ricochets. No permanent damage, but damn did it hurt. Not senseless gun violence, just poor judgement by the shooter.

[ShorelineJohn]

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A month or so ago a cop was shot across the street from where I work. Since that time we have guards patrolling the parking lot and it takes an employee id badge to get in the parking lot. South Everett and highway 99 is just not a safe place to be at 2 AM when we get off. Last Thursday we had another incident by it was minor just people trying to break into cars at 2AM. My problem is driving down highway 99 at 2:15 with so many stop lights, people know if they hit the crosswalk button when they see head lights coming down the road I will have to stop at which point I am very vulnerable to car jacking. I am prepared to run the light if I don't like what I see.

[Chip-skiff]

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Not exactly violence, but arsewipes shooting their assault rifles on the national forest have started two really scary wildfires.

[Hugh MacD]

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A month or so ago a cop was shot across the street from where I work. Since that time we have guards patrolling the parking lot and it takes an employee id badge to get in the parking lot. South Everett and highway 99 is just not a safe place to be at 2 AM when we get off. Last Thursday we had another incident by it was minor just people trying to break into cars at 2AM. My problem is driving down highway 99 at 2:15 with so many stop lights, people know if they hit the crosswalk button when they see head lights coming down the road I will have to stop at which point I am very vulnerable to car jacking. I am prepared to run the light if I don't like what I see.

My neighbor is from South Africa and said he never stopped for lights or signs...too vulnerable. He also carried a pistol tucked under his buttcheek and pointed aft. Seattle/Tacoma is starting to sound like that. Portland's not quite as bad.

[paxtonm]

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Can any of you begin to imagine this conversation occurring in the UK? Japan? Netherlands? France? Spain? (Keep going ...). I forgot to mention in my first post that, without going into details, I had a .22 pointed at my head at point-blank range. "Click" and the "empty" rifle didn't fire. Next trigger pull, "bang!" Round stuck in the chamber. Just the first of a lot of reasons that I greet every day as a new gift.

[SaltyD from BC]

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Not in our little town but a half hour west of here in the big town there seems to be 3 or 4 a year. Pretty much always someone riddled with bullets in their car and shortly afterwards the police find a stolen vehicle on fire to eliminate any evidence. Gang banger stuff.