I've read alot online lately about gun control. I am definitely for the right to bear arms. We can not put laws into place to prevent fools from being fools. Fools exist in every country, every city, every block in the neighborhood.

I was shot by a fool when I was 19. Then again, I was in a place where fools tend to gather. A bar. The drinking age at that time was 18 and every weekend was bar night. The name of the bar was SteveBo's, one of those neighborhood bars with a couple of pool tables, good music on the juke box, no old fogies to torment you.

It was around 10pm I was playing pool with a group of friends when Steve the owner came in. He was obviously very drunk and who knows what else he had been doing. Well for some reason out of all those people he spots me and decided I need to dance for him. I told him to go to hell and continued to play pool, doing my best to ignore him. Then I notice the pool table area starts clearing out rapidly - then I notice Steve standing there with a gun.

Again he told me to dance or he was going to shoot me. Well the way people were flying out of the bar, including his friends I assumed he meant business. I've said before I'm a stubborn bitch and when I'm threatened I do not act rationally. I put my stick down took a step at him and said "fuck you". He shot me in the leg, which at the time I didn't know he did. He didn't either, he thought he shot at the floor. Again he said "dance". About that time I felt something very wet running down my leg and seen the blood pooling under the cuff of my jeans.

At this point Steve went nuts and started yelling "I can't believe I shot you!" Well duh. Luckily he only took off a junk a skin off my calf and put a hole in my favorite jeans.

Well I left the bar naturally with Steve yelling at me as I left that I have free drinks for the rest of my life. Yeah right fool, like I would ever go back there again.

About 5 years after that, Steve was shot and killed in another bar. Shot point blank in the chest...the man who shot him never had charges filed against him. Who knows what went down.