Re: Please read! Re: columbine
Jeremy Green (jergreen@adelphia.net)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:39:43 -0400
there is no need for guns in modern society. they can cause no good.
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To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 5:44 PM
Subject: Please read! Re: columbine
> Whether or not this relates to Columbine, I truly don't know. I would
just like to
> share this news in hopes of spurring stronger feelings for gun control,
especially
> with children: When I arrived at school today, I came to find out that
one of my
> friends' brother shot himself yesterday afternoon - twice in the temple -
he was 13
> years old. I, at first, thought it must have been an accident, but once I
talked to
> more of my friends, they told me that it looked as if it could not have
been anything
> but purposefully done. His sister had come into the room and found him
lying on the
> floor, barely conscious.
> Please, help to prevent this happening again. My friend's brother may
have been just
> one suicide case in many this year, but that doesn't make it any more
right that he
> had access to the gun.
> -Sarah