I'm a proud American. I observe Memorial Day. We need a Memorial Day for gun victims...

[wyldwolf]

... a national day where victims of senseless gun violence are remembered.

[flamin lib]

1. .

[billh58]

2. Domestic Gun Deaths Since ’68 Are Greater Than All Our War Casualties Ever

Your suggestion is more than fitting when you compare the numbers of deaths.

http://www.inquisitr.com/515151/domestic-gun-deaths-since-68-are-greater-than-all-our-war-casualties-ever/

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Through a comprehensive study of war-related deaths as published by the Congressional Research Service and icasualties.org (which provides Afghanistan and Iraq death tolls) Politifact was able to determine that 1,171,177 Americans have been killed at war since our nation was born.

Conversely, they pulled data from the CDC and FBI to calculate the total number of gun-related deaths in American since 1968. That number is 1,384,171.

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[CTyankee]

3. I wish. My own neice is one...

[stone space]

4. For your neice. I have no words.

(((CTyankee)))

[CTyankee]

6. oh, thank you!

her death, just 4 months after her marriage at age 23, was joyous and happy for my family. Her death, at the hands of her drunk and angry step-grandfather, was a huge family tragedy. So many of the family members involved are gone now, my brother, my mother, my father. I guess I'll carry the memory to my grave also...

[billh58]

5. I have friends and family

in both groups, and their deaths were all equally senseless.

[CTyankee]

7. glad you can relate...it's hard, isn't it?

all these years later, i still carry in my memory her young face in that coffin...and my brother collapsing at her coffin side...it stays with me...

[billh58]

8. Yes, it is hard to accept

that we as a nation allow our children to be slaughtered like livestock, and that is why I will continue to support sensible gun control regulations until I can no longer do so.

Please accept my condolences for the death of your niece and for your, and your family's, needless suffering.

Yes, it's hard...

[CTyankee]

9. thank you, bill. I guess it is our shared pain that keeps us here on this thread...

it helps to know that there is someone else here that knows what my family went through...we share a bond...

[Kalidurga]

10. We need a wall

Across from this address 11250 Waples Mill Rd, Fairfax, VA 22030

[billh58]

11. Like our children, the NRA

would just use it for target practice.

[Kalidurga]

12. Currently

they are using actual children

[defacto7]

13. Yep, just like a Westboro Baptist Church campaign

only with guns and hiding behind bushes.

I suppose it would take a counter protest of several magnitudes higher and right in their face. I think we could manage that.

[defacto7]

14. I think it's a great idea.

And what could the NRA counter with? A national right to kill day? A national day to commemorate metal for being heavier than flesh? Sorry, but I could have been much more crude. I held back.