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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">A year or so after we moved from Las Cruces to Seattle, when our son was 17m we heard that one of our son’s Las Cruces friends had died. He and a friend were sitting on a couch playing with a gun and what happened is what you probably expected.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 22 Oct 2021, at 18:52, thompnickson2@gmail.com wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">Well, to contrast that a bit, I've had guns pointed at me (aggressively) 3 times. (Many more "playfully".) None of them pulled the trigger, luckily. But that just proves that they do NOT take guns seriously. They are more toy, less weapon ... which makes them even more dangerous. Also, 2 of my friends from high school were murdered, one with a gun, one with a knife.</p>
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