Yarddog
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Something I think of fairly often. I rummaged through my keepsake box last week and saw his obituary. Man, the older I get, the younger fourteen years old looks. That was twenty years ago now.
When I was 16, a few miles down the road from my house there lived two brothers. A year apart. They decided to play with a pistol one day and one shot and killed his brother. Took him a day or so to die. Horrible thing. It just ruined the mama. And the pain in their dads eyes. I’ll never forget the look.
It didn’t make sense. Those boys grew up around guns. Hunted. They should have known better. I Always wondered if their dad didn’t teach them correctly.
The surviving son, could you imagine the guilt of being alive, knowing you caused such grief to your family?seeing your family hurt, and having to relive that moment of you pointing, and squeezing that trigger? The sick feeling when you realized your mistake.
Or the dad?? Was he guilty too? Did he teach his boys? A firearm is a deadly tool. It was designed to kill. Did he do all he could? Who knows.
Every year it happens to someone. More people get shot by “unloaded” guns than you can shake a stick at.
When I was 16, a few miles down the road from my house there lived two brothers. A year apart. They decided to play with a pistol one day and one shot and killed his brother. Took him a day or so to die. Horrible thing. It just ruined the mama. And the pain in their dads eyes. I’ll never forget the look.
It didn’t make sense. Those boys grew up around guns. Hunted. They should have known better. I Always wondered if their dad didn’t teach them correctly.
The surviving son, could you imagine the guilt of being alive, knowing you caused such grief to your family?seeing your family hurt, and having to relive that moment of you pointing, and squeezing that trigger? The sick feeling when you realized your mistake.
Or the dad?? Was he guilty too? Did he teach his boys? A firearm is a deadly tool. It was designed to kill. Did he do all he could? Who knows.
Every year it happens to someone. More people get shot by “unloaded” guns than you can shake a stick at.
