[Beth]

Well, I love target practice but I do it with a pellet gun or air rifle rather than with a real weapon and even the, I still treat it with respect. Hit someone on the wrong spot on their head you can kill them or severely injure them.

Wade, it was a gun accident rather than suicide, I think. The kid in question was in very good spirits, very religious, and in the happiest time of his life, unless there was something secretly going on that my brother did not know about. Anyway, this kid was walking sunshine and his death affected alot of people. His parents were not charged with a suicidal death. From what I understand, parents are not usually held culpable in a suicidal gun death. But I understand your questioning 'accidental gun cleaning' deaths. My adopted uncle, who was only about five or six years older than I shot himself while cleaning his gun. I had a mad crush on him when I went to visit them in Colorado. Anyway, it still bothers me because I wonder if it was, in fact, an accident.

Just recently I was thinking it was a very good thing, indeed that we do not own a gun. I was in a horrible mental state and if I had owned a gun, in my fury, I probably would have just walked out into the field and shot myself instantly without one thought of what might occur. Guns make things too easy and cause too much pain in my book. Best not to own one. I would hate for one of my kids to enter such a mental state and permanantly end things