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The most relevant for me is I worked closely with a guy who later committed suicide (with a gun I think - can't remember) because his ex-wife won sole custody in a divorce - he was dedicated to his daughter.
Another one was a kid I vaguely knew in school accidentally shot and killed his brother (or was it his cousin) with a rifle they were playing with. There may be more - there are a lot of people I have known 'personally' that have been killed or killed themselves over the years - including some suicides. I don't usually ask how the suicides killed themselves. There are probably others that have died and I just haven't heard - I am not good about keeping in touch with others.
OTOH - I have known a LOT more people who have died in car accidents - including a family member last year who died because she lost control of her car while texting.
Stuff happens - I don't blame the inanimate objects - it is usually a human that is at fault, not the object. I don't want to ban cars, or phones or guns - I find them all useful and relatively harmless if treated with respect and used properly.
Another one was a kid I vaguely knew in school accidentally shot and killed his brother (or was it his cousin) with a rifle they were playing with. There may be more - there are a lot of people I have known 'personally' that have been killed or killed themselves over the years - including some suicides. I don't usually ask how the suicides killed themselves. There are probably others that have died and I just haven't heard - I am not good about keeping in touch with others.
OTOH - I have known a LOT more people who have died in car accidents - including a family member last year who died because she lost control of her car while texting.
Stuff happens - I don't blame the inanimate objects - it is usually a human that is at fault, not the object. I don't want to ban cars, or phones or guns - I find them all useful and relatively harmless if treated with respect and used properly.