In my friend’s case, I couldn’t remember if they were playing near the rifle, or with the rifle. I went with the one that cast my friend in the most sympathetic light.
Ah, so now we know why you’re in California! Still running from the mob, eh?
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame. You give love, a bad name!
sorry.
A guy I used to train with in judo was shot and killed by his girlfriend - he was beating her. He was Hispanic.
The wife in a couple I knew growing up (they were friends with my parents until they - the other couple, not my parents - suggested a wife swap, and my parents dropped the acquaintance) was shot by her step son. He wanted money for drugs, she wouldn’t give him any. All white folks there.
My cousin shot me in the head when I was six, but it was a BB gun.
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Shodan
A friend of mine (white male) was a Naval Officer stationed in DC (Crystal City, specifically) and a white male civilian who worked for him came to work with a gun, shot my friend, another boss, then committed suicide.
My friend survived, and made a scrapbook that included copies of his Xrays, photos of his wounds, news clippings, etc, so when people asked about the scars on his arms… :rolleyes: For several years afterwards, he always managed to work the shooting into conversations when he met new folks. It’s been over 10 years - I think he’s finally gotten over it.
White, urban. When I was 12, a girl I knew from school was shot by terrorists. She was white; I think they were North African but I’m not sure. She was a year younger than me. She died.
For the last seventeen years I’ve lived in a country with absolutely no gun culture - I don’t even know anyone who’s ever owned a gun. I also don’t know anyone who’s ever been shot.
I don’t know anyone who has been shot. My mother has a friend who’s husband used a gun to kill himself, though.
While I know the OP wanted to avoid military experiences I will include my service related shooting incident. It wasn’t anything you could consider a normal hazard of military service. At least I sure hope not. While my ship was in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for decom work, the enlisted parking lot was way over there. In fact, it was so far removed from the docks and drydocks that it was on the other side of both a rail terminal, and a trailer park.
To get to the enlisted parking lot one had to walk over this pedestrian bridge, which left one partially exposed to view to the denizens of the trailer park. There had been persistent rumors that the lovely people there were taking pot shots at people going across at night. I hadn’t believed it - the section of Portsmouth where the shipyard was was a pretty rough place, but I was skeptical that people would actually take pot shots at passing strangers for shits and giggles. I’d heard cracks or pops before going over the bridge, but thought it was just fireworks.
It only took hearing the ‘whick’ of a small caliber round going by once to change my mind.
After that I paid to park at the private lot at the entrance closest to the ship.
I’m white, middle-aged, grew up suburban, mostly urban, now.
I am a white guy who grew up in suburban Virginia. Strangely I know a number of people who have been shot.
My friend Shep from high school grew up in Africa, his father was a missionary. He was shot in a hunting accident and the bullet was left in his forearm for whatever reason. You could actually feel it under the muscle of the arm.
My mother’s close friends and friends of our family were murdered in an execution style killing in the mid 80’s. Bruce and Bonnie Glover lived in DC and Bruce’s mother had recently died. They went to Riggs bank to inventory her safety deposit box, the safety deposit boxes were in a glassed in room visible to bank customers. His mother had a lot of well made, but essentially valueless costume jewelry which they were sorting through. They then took the jewelry home with them. That night they were bound, gagged and shot in the back of the head.
The police surmised that the murderers saw them earlier that day and followed them home. Bruce’s credit card was used months later by an apparently uninvolved person who bought from some other shady guy, but that was the closest they got to solving the murder.
Finally, a very nice, slightly nerdy girl from my small high school went to college in London. She was ambushed while jogging in a park and murdered. That really doesn’t count as she was stabbed, but it caused quite an uproar in London as it was basically done in broad daylight in a well travelled area.
White teenagers in upstate NY.
I was hit in the forehead by a richocet from a shotgun fired by my best friend while target shooting. Left a red welt that scared the shit out of me more than anything.
In seventh grade a kid I didn’t really know was in the woods with his brother during small game season. Tommy slipped in the mud and fell, his .22 went off and he killed his brother.
Sad, Tommy was never quite right after that. Lots and lots of drugs. He’s in jail now because his three remaining brain cells led him to do lots of dumb shit by the time he was 30.
I’ve known a few guys who have been shot, some of them in combat. But I remember one friend in Texas who accidentally shot himself in the foot on the way to the target range to practice. When he went to the emergency room, there were two other guys who had also shot themselves in the foot! And this was on an otherwise-quiet Sunday morning.
Just goes to show: There’s no such thing as a quiet Sunday morning in Texas.
I have a friend (well, more of an acquaintance now - he was a friend in middle school) who was shot a few months ago during a burglary of his house. He got shot multiple times - two or three bullets hit him. He told me he fired back at them with a shotgun - he didn’t hit them but he did scare them off.
He is a shady guy and although he describes it as a burglary attempt, I’d suspect there’s more to it, that maybe it was over drugs or something. I don’t know. But I’m just glad he survived.
Edit: just noticed the race thing. I’m white, suburban, and this guy in question who was shot is white and also suburban (but the shady end of the suburbs.) The guys who shot him were black.
My grandfather - Western Front, 1916.
The pillock enlisted in the British Army while drunk (this was in the Irish Midlands, while the Easter Rising was happening in Dublin) and wasn’t finally discharged until midway through 1919.
We don’t necessarily have a good cross section of the broader community represented on the boards though.
White, urban male.
My rural teenage cousin was shot in the head by his best friend in a gun accident when I was 10. The friend was trying to clear a jam, I heard. A case of familiarity breeding fatality.
A co-worker of mine related the tale of the time he shot himself in the leg with a .22 revolver while target shooting alone. He’s white, too.
One of my old professors in college was a moderately well-known Nigerian democracy activist. After the military decided they were “just kidding!” about the elections back in the early 90s, the military sent some guys to his compound, and he took a dozen or so bullets. Prof was tough - survived, moved to the states, and had the jolliest laugh you’ve ever heard when he screened videos in class of various dictators/warlords getting killed.
Urban male here. A friend of mine was a white police officer. He was shot three different times. Survived them all.
Male, urban, white, 49, Canadian. I don’t know anyone who has ever been shot. I don’t know anyone who has ever seen a handgun, much less touched one.
Hey. This is a serious thread. We should Bon Jovi-ial comments like that.
Goes straight to hell
I’m white, rural, as are the victims and killer. My brother was shot by a notorious FBI informant at point blank range in a bar over a misunderstanding. He nearly died and lost some vital organs. They eventually tracked this murderer down, and he stood trial and was given a ridiculously light sentence (18 months) for the attempted murder of my brother, considering he had already shot and killed a man ten years earlier. I believe the FBI had a hand in his light sentencng and this miscarriage of justice because he was an asset. He served his time, remained an FBI informant, and went on to shoot and kill at least 6 more people. This execution style serial killer is currently on death row.