"The last words he said to his friend were, 'I can't believe you shot me.'"

[marmar]

Families Reveal The Gun Tragedies That Cost Them Dearly
The Huffington Post | By Alexandra Schuster

"The last words he said to his friend were, 'I can't believe you shot me.'"
-- Ann Marie Crowell whose son was shot and killed by his friend on Christmas Eve in 1997

"The boys were playing, and as I understand it... trying to figure out if the gun was loaded. And the gun went off while they were trying to figure that out, and my brother was shot in the head and killed right away."
-- Simon Frankel whose brother was shot and killed at 12 years old while vacationing on a ranch in Wyoming in 1973

"The funeral itself, there were over 5,000 people who came."
-- Dr. Danny Dwyer whose five-year-old grandson was killed by an accidental gunshot in 2006

These are the voices of family members who have lost children, grandchildren and siblings to accidental shootings. To shed light on the stories of lives unnecessarily lost by gun violence, HuffPost Live assembled a panel of experts and family members affected by these tragedies.

As noted by Dr. Judith Palfrey, past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics and former Executive Director of President Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, gun violence "is a preventable cause of death."

Highlighting the duality of the issue, Palfrey added, "... gun violence is a very serious cause of mortality in our country for children." ........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/14/gun-violence-children_n_4274590.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037

[Hoyt]

1. Gotta preserve freedumb to have all the gunz one's baser instincts desire.

[gopiscrap]

3. no kidding

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. ...

[seveneyes]

4. Young man tweets "You Only Live Once" seconds before killing five people

There's too much senseless death among today's youth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/13/ervin-mckinness-driving-drunk-tweet-yolo-dies-car-crash-dui-_n_1880348.html

Ervin McKinness, a 21-year-old aspiring rapper, tweeted about driving drunk at 120 mph minutes before dying in a fiery one-car crash that killed the rapper and four others.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Gunners don't care - they've been suckered by the gun industry to believe that their dumb hobby

is the same as "liberty." They're dupes and morons. No amount of dead people or children will make them care.

[Bandit]

6. When they say "accidental shooting", what they really mean is gun negligence...

If I am negligent while driving a car and someone dies I would probably end up behind bars. That doesn't happen so often with gun "accidents"

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R