294: What if you shot your girlfriend?
294: What if you shot your girlfriend?
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Escaping a world of gangs and drugs, a man joins the military and becomes a veteran of Iraq, but the scars from his past, PTSD and a TBI haunt him until a fateful day when he faces the ultimate demons.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: abuse of a child, gun violence, drug use, attempted murder, murder, war, bombing, graphic bodily injury, explicit language
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The minute you start drinking that gun should have been locked up. To call it a tool is a bit of a stretch and more of a way to normalize it. A tool for what purpose? Oh, to neutralize any physical threat. How many times have you used it for that purpose, as a civilian? Never. Dude shouldn’t have even got the gun with his history. But this is the dude that fucks people doing it right, with new restrictions that don’t affect the bad guy. I’m sure he didn’t mean this, but he should’ve meant not to
Why was he even touching the gun? He said he had a conceal and carry permit so he didn't need to unload it... Maybe cause he was drinking....