Luvsbway Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 Well the incredible popularity surge was bound to get crazy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-michael-conner/the-tragic-gunshot-that-r_b_8937908.html?ir=Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted January 16, 2016 Report Share Posted January 16, 2016 Well, it's always nice to have Lucy in contemporary discourse, but... Let's just hope rednecks don't come out with bumper stickers reading, "Guns don't kill people; Ruth/Johanna kills people." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie2 Posted January 16, 2016 Report Share Posted January 16, 2016 The most striking thing to me about this article was that they used the term "Ripe old age of 40". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted January 16, 2016 Report Share Posted January 16, 2016 The most striking thing to me about this article was that they used the term "Ripe old age of 40". Really!! How rude! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Well the incredible popularity surge was bound to get crazy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-michael-conner/the-tragic-gunshot-that-r_b_8937908.html?ir=Australia Luvs: Thanks SO much for 'finding' this incredible article, PERFECT, for the chronology! Loving you, JK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleRickyII Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 Well the incredible popularity surge was bound to get crazy http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-michael-conner/the-tragic-gunshot-that-r_b_8937908.html?ir=Australia Forgive me if I've told this before, but this story reminds me of a college acquaintance of mine, Bill, who moved off campus with his best friend into an apartment nearby. One night Bill went out with some friends. When he got back home it was very late and he discovered he had forgotten his key. He didn't want to awaken his roommate/best friend, so he decided to climb through an open window. His roommate wound up being awakened anyway, thought an intruder was breaking into the apartment, and shot Bill dead. I went to the funeral and it was just heartbreaking seeing his parents and siblings so broken to pieces. And I've often wondered about whatever became of Bill's best friend. How do you live with something like that, knowing you ended your best friend's life? A similar thing almost happened to my grandfather. He sometimes worked late and gave my grandmother a gun for protection. One night she was asleep and woke up thinking an intruder was in the room. Just before she was about to shoot, the lights came on and it was my grandfather. So my grandfather survived, but it was a very close call. I did, however, lose one of my best friends in high school. His parents had a gun and one morning before school, Samuel, who had been privately suffering depression, picked up their gun and killed himself. He was only 16 years old. Another classmate had killed himself a few months before with a gun his parents had given him. He was just 15. And then there was a kid a few years older than me who, along with his best friend, were given guns by their parents for Christmas. That very day they went hunting together and one of them accidentally killed the other. Those families' lives were ripped apart forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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