A Child With A Gun (And An Abusive Man)


 

     So included on my Facebook News Feed this morning were two horrible news. One (which happened in the Philippines) was about a woman in her early twenties brutally murdered by his jealous abusive drug-addicted live-in partner (he stabbed her with glass shards multiple times).

     The second, which happened in Texas, USA, was about a three-year-old girl accidentally shooting and killing her four-year-old sister with a gun owned by their parents.

     A bizarre coincidence, I’ve just finished reading a brilliant novel about a woman who grew up in an abusive home where her father regularly hit and hurt her mother. She then falls in love and gets married to a man who’d occasionally get jealous and lose control and physically hurt her so severe she needs stitches. It turns out that this man is encumbered by a dark past—when he was six years old, he accidentally shot and killed his older brother with a gun owned by their parents.

     There’s another man in the story, more lovable and the object of the first man’s raging jealousy, but he doesn’t connect with the two real-life news I’ve mentioned.

     For the life of me, I don’t know why a parent would be so careless as to let his kid find and hold their gun and pull its trigger, and I also don’t know why a woman would allow her man to repeatedly abuse her and hurt her. I know love will make you tolerate weird and crazy things, but once you confirm that you’re with an abusive man, run!

 

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