That was the year my future father-in-law pointed a shotgun at my head and ordered me to leave his house, while his wife and my future wife huddled in the background in terror. I left, walked across the street to where my future sister-in-law was babysitting and called the cops.

Conservatives prefer to counter reasonable arguments for gun control by smearing liberals as irrationally-gun-fearing wimps with no real exposure to guns (and why Open-Carry-Texas's rationale is to "accustom" people to guns...assholes). Point of fact, I've had guns pointed at me more than once, and come near to injury or death from guns, including the time a shotgun held by the guy behind me on a trail went off and came within an inch or so of blowing my head off.

There was a little boy, let's call him "Bobby" for simplicity, who at around five years old--just like those little kids in the photos!--turned a .25 Beretta in his hand around to look down the barrel in fascination at the smoke from the bullet he'd just fired, causing his dad--who we'll call "Atilla" for simplicity--standing behind him to freak out and slap the gun from his hand and start yelling in self-evident panic.

I know damn well little kids should not be handling firearms, because I was one of them. For every gun owner who's taken the time take safety courses and practice at a range, there are a hundred with no training and little common sense who just get a cheap thrill from firing a gun in an empty lot.