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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember reading an article a long time ago about gun owners whose kids had accidentally shot and killed a sibling.

I don't remember the details but the main family that was profiled involved two low-elementary school aged brothers, and one had accidentally killed the other with the dad's gun.

What I remember vividly towards the end of the story was the dad one day telling the living kid: "I forgive you" (for killing the sibling). I can't quite describe the feeling of revulsion and horror I felt at those words--the guy who is clearly responsible for the death of his child,  is unrepentant about having made guns available to his kids, effectively killing one and possibly ruining the other one's life. And on top of that, he feels entitled to "forgive" his kid, who is the real victim? 
[b]How do you even engage with that kind of psychopath?[/b][/quote]
The fetishization of guns in this country is a national illness, and I don't know how to remedy it. DH owns a rifle, and we have a gun safe and ammunition is kept separately under lock and key. He couldn't imagine keeping an unsecured gun in a house with kids. But this is a country where law makers share Christmas cards of their entire families holding guns in front of the tree...this is somehow seen as festive, apparently.

I don't know how you come back from this level of cultural sociopathy.[/quote]

I hope you and your husband don't vote Republican. Because Republicans are fueling this sociopathy.[/quote]

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