[manaboutown]

The person I feel sorry for is the victim, i.e., the man who was shot. Unless it was in self defense his wife tried to murder him. As for abuse issues, until the facts are known who is to say who abused whom? Shooting the fellow in an attempt to kill him is clearly abuse in my book!

As for guns, I keep one around for personal defense although I do not carry it all the time. A close friend of mine is a retired deputy sheriff and he must carry one wherever he goes in case some felon he may have put in prison attempts to use deadly force on him. Some convicts have sworn to kill him when they get out. Several people, women included, I know or know of have saved their own lives upon occasion by using a gun they had with them in a purse, backpack, car or wherever, against an attacker. One may not have 20 minutes to survive until the police arrive. Incidentally, statistics show the highest murder rates occur where gun control laws prohibit citizens from keeping guns for self defense. The wolves know where the lambs are unarmed. Gun control of course does not keep guns out of the hands of criminals.