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Old 06-24-2020, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 View Post
I hung around with a very bad crowd in Reno, Nevada when about aged 14 and one of these boys pointed a loaded BB gun at my eye. This was in his house. I convinced him to try to shoot between my fingers. He missed and put a BB into my left pinky. I plucked it out a few minutes later but far away from this boy.

I certainly remember how much adrenaline I had in that encounter. The boy who shot me had to go into some kind of mental health developmental place after his parents found out what he had done.

I got away from this bad group (who had done far worse than the BB gun shooting to one another) and found books and a great English teacher in Mrs. Barbara Mitchell at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada. She eventually gave me a small Memorial Scholarship in her late daughter Michelle Mitchell's name.

I do own some guns but would have trouble getting to them quickly as I do not keep them loaded nor anywhere near my bed. Do have many other things that could stop an intruder though. Golf clubs for instance.
Yes, and we could THROW our very heavy Wednesday Village paper at them!