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How has gun violence
affected your life?
Responses gathered at the The Village Voices' recent Siren Music Festival in Coney Island
On Labor Day 2005 I lost the love of my life, my best friend and husband to a driveby. It was mistaken identity.
- Anonymous
A teacher in my community was shot by her husband. Gun availability made the heinous crime possible.
- Anonymous
I had a friend whose brother was shot and killed when he was in eighth grade because a student brought a gun to school.
- Anonymous
A college friend was shot and killed while visiting his family on spring break. He was ambushed at a stop light and killed with a gun his murderers bought on the street.
- Anonymous
My close friend's father was murdered by an illegal gun in October 2004 on 16th and Newton St, NE, Washington.
- Mark Slattery
A popular, happy, smart kid in my high school killed himself with a shotgun he found in his house on the first day of school. No one expected it and I always wonder if it still would have happened if his father hadn't owned that gun.
- Anonymous
I am a 44 year old rape survivor. If the gun was not present I would have had the ability to help myself better. I have worked hard to recover from this. Life is good.
- Annmarie
My cousin was playing basketball in a community tournament when he was hit in his right temple by a stray bullet. He and others died by accident.
- Anonymous
When we were 15 years old, a friend of mine took a gun from a friend's house and shot another friend in the head accidentally. She died.
- Anonymous
I lost my brother-in-law, who was a parole officer for the city of New York. He was shot point blank. He was going in for an arrest for a parolee who was wanted for pistol whipping an 80 year old woman. He was 32.
- Anonymous
When I was in the 8th grade, a good friend accidentally shot his cousin, 2 weeks before graduation. The two were playing and one ended dead. I will never forget the boys or the feeling that overcame me to know that I had lost a friend as a result of a misplaced gun.
- Anonymous
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