People that had to unalive someone in self defense, what's your story? 

Friend of mine kill3d a guy who tried to assault her. Dude messed with the wrong lady. She punched him once. Only once. Hard enough that he didn't make it. Guess that's what happens when you try to attack a trained fighter. Haven't talked to her in years but she never felt bad even for a second. All she ever said about it was "that bastard won't hurt anyone anymore and for that i am proud." That girl was an absolute legend, spent a lot of time helping other assault and abuse survivors, including offering protection when they went to court against their abusers.

I have no problem with someone ending a life in self-defense. In many of these stories the writers WARNED the attackers and they still approached. The attacker caused his end, not the writers.

I think the scariest part of the first story was that the intruders obviously didn't give a shit that the family was home or that the police were coming. They were there to hurt them.

Your supervisor coming to your home to make sure you are actually sick is insane. I would have quit that job so fast

You'd be surprised. In some states, young kids are allowed to have guns as long as they have adult supervision. There are even "child-sized" versions of things like .22 Rifles, for teaching kids hunting and stuff. Which is probably what the 8 y/o in the story was using.

The kid was definitely eight and not eighteen. A .22 is a very small caliber no matter what the mechanism is, and a lot of children are taught how to keep themselves safe in case of emergencies, or how to hunt. Adrenaline will stop a person from thinking clearly, so while it's not exactly a miracle the kid didn't hit their mom, it's not good to fire in those circumstances to begin with. Shitty scenario all around.

I was pissed off about the guy who killed the man who was molesting his girlfriend and went to jail for a YEAR. Since when is defending an innocent person a crime?

The headphones story, my lord, what if he hadn’t heard his wife screaming? Shudders…

With the quote "execution" not defense story. I wouldve done the exact same if not worse. That man lost his right as a human being in that moment and deserved nothing less. I hope he, his wife and his daughter are all doing ok!

To clarify about the story with the 8 year old. Yes. A 22 caliber rifle is basically one of the weak, starter type firearms you might see kids use at the range. They're small, lightweight, relatively quiet, have barely any kick, and are mainly meant for small game & target practice.

46:52 "my socially conscious self doesn't love how O.P. talked about specifically quote unquote black leadership in this post". He described what they did and said and how they twisted the facts and ruined his life just to advance their own influence and wealth. This is unfortunately somewhat common for many individuals and organizations that are (self-appointed) voices for various causes and groups. Any "socially conscious self" should be as upset about such abuse of power as the O.P. was, as even he correctly pointed out that such behavior harms, not helps, the movements they're claiming to stand for.

The very fact you don’t like his comments about black leadership getting behind obviously and undesirable undeserving coward is exactly why he used those words. I support OP 100%.

Story 4 vet, technically, yeah, you killed him, but to be fair, with a bomb that big in the van, that guy was taking a one-way trip either way even if you didn't pull the trigger on him.

Something like this happened to me. It's not much of a story. My dad was a marine and taught us girls basic self-defense. When I was 13, I was walking home from school in the evening after a club activity. A man attacked me. I don't really remember the rest. The next thing I remember is getting home, and my dad was on his way out the door to find me, cause he "had a feeling. " He asked me if I was hurt and what happened. I told him I wasn't, and everything that I remembered. He said to go take a shower and put my clothes in the trash and not tell anyone. Then he left the house. When I got in the bathroom, I realized that I was covered in blood spray. I did what he said, and he came back about 2 hours later and reminded me that we were never going to talk about it again. For years, I didn't. This happened when we were living overseas. It was not a good area. I always wanted to ask him where he went, but he died, and I never had the chance. I don't know if I did unalive someone or not. No one ever talked to me about it if I did.

100% the reason I hate how all headphones have to be noise cancelling. It's nearly impossible to find good headphones that aren't. I have been attacked several times and got away because I could hear someone approaching which gave me a split second to really react and get away. Why does everything have to be noise cancelling??! WHY!?

To reinforce the fact the guy who isn’t handling it well is not being weak or whatever, police officers usually to go see a psychiatrist after shooting someone because of how traumatic it is considered. Killing someone is hard to do in actuality and it can mess people up severely for the rest of their lives.

My 8 year old can rack a slide and charge an ar15. That being said, no way in hell id give him a firearm to keep. At that age they are old enough to handle them safely and know not to shoot someone, but the maturity level is not there. That's taking a huge unnecessary risk.

The kid with the 22: I have no doubt that the kid was 8 years old. In most families that have multiple firearms the young are commonly taught gun safety at an early age so that curiosity will not be a factor when weapons are involved.

as I live in a rather peaceful country I never had to kill to self defend, but I did in one time find myself, being an EMT, in a situation where I needed to hit a woman twice my weight, drunk and having psychiatric condition in the head to stop her from hitting me. (yes, same story in a different video where we listed her as a "danger list" for my fire brigade)

If mom was being dragged she was more than likely lower than the attacker and eight year olds are taught to use guns especially where I live in the country…lots of kids learn to hunt around that age

Story 12 19:43 8 Years is correct here. This is in a rural area in the US. If you live there, its likely you own guns. If you own guns, you better teach your children gun safely as soon as they can walk. A 22 bolt action is a rifle that shoots 0.22 inch diameter (about 5mm) bullets. If you can hold the rifle, you can deal with the recoil. It is just one step above an air gun. It is still a lethal weapon, and the trusts these parent have in their child is immense. But the fact that the child hit 3 of 5 shots tells that the child had lots of firearm training before. I am not sure whether or not I would let a child this young have access to a firearm and munition, but in this situation it was a good thing they had. Safety rules change, if you live so far away from others that you can not call for help.

On the topic of story 9, I don't think people truly understand how terrifying being choked or choking someone can be unless it's happened to them. I have a friend who is a professional fighter in my class at uni. We were hanging out in my dorm, and he was talking about chokeholds. I do karate and told him that I've never properly been choked before, as we do semi-contact at karate. I let him do one on me so i could experience what it's like. As a disclaimer, don’t do this yourselves. He's been training for years, so not only can he do it safely, but efficiently. As in "Knocked out within 10 seconds" efficiently. As soon as he put the pressure on, I panicked, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen. 3 seconds, no more than that. I have not felt so panicked in years and I could feel it for the next hour. Tldr: Choking induces panic like you would not believe, so don’t choke people.

You mention your level of empathy, and even being soft, but honestly thats what I like most about this channel. I can trust y'all to listen and care, and consider the human aspect of things. Helps me feel comfortable and relax, and just listen to the stories

To OP who is feeling messed up by what happened, what you had to do, I’m glad you’re still around and if it helps any, I would give you a hug for as long as you need.

A person being dragged by the hair can be on the ground, not always stumbling after their attacker. And in some parts of the States, people do actually let kids that young have guns

Story 12. He could have been 8. I know friends of mine were given .22 rifles at very young ages to plink in their yard. Usually this is out in the country, where guns are much more a part of your upbringing. I was 10 when my uncle first gave me a .22 to shoot.

21:07 in the south of the US at least, it's common for kids to handle guns. my dad taught me gun safety around 5 since we had them in the house and got me my own child-sized gun a few years later so i could go to the range with him

The "noise cancelling headphones" one is actually why I always have one ear cup behind my ear and a weapon nearby at all times when I'm home alone, especially considering I live in a pretty dodgy neighborhood

That is how a real life is ruined, when you defend yourself against someone with A WEAPON but because of y’all’s skin color, YOU’RE labeled a racist and the attacker while everyone forgets about the facts that the person entered someone else’s place of work or home looking to cause harm upon you or anyone who gets in their way……🙄

Leave it to SF to label it an execution he’s lucky he didn’t get charged by them

An 8 year old can handle a gun and it was common practice until the internet took over

I was shooting rifles, shotguns, and riding Yamaha 80s at that age. I grew up right, in the county...

As a person living in a red state in the midwest, I'm inclined to believe the 8-year-old story. It's definitely not a norm to have a gun under your sole custody that young, but I knew how to use one by that age. Cub scout camps almost always have .22 riflery under close supervision. Boy scouts (age 12 and up) frequently had shotguns and clay pigeons.

20:54 No, he meant Eight in rural areas kids are taught how to hunt small game such as rabbits for food and it's common in scouting to teach kids to use a rifle

Story 30, the guy who's having a rough time: This is PTSD. Some people get PTSD and some people don't; there's an element of luck of the draw to it. There's no shame in having PTSD, and it's not somehow less valid if you're not a soldier. I have PTSD - not from doing anyone violence, but from some bad times in my own life - and gosh, OP, I feel for you. I've been there. All I can say is that it does get better, and please, talk to a therapist about it. It took me four years to move toward 'okay-ish', but I'm ten years out from my darkest times and life is worth living. Having a professional help with all those nightmares and intrusive thoughts would have made the healing so much easier, and I hope you're able to access one.

8 Year olds with guns. In the mid-1980s as an 8 year old Pennsylvania farm boy living at the base of a mountain covered in trees, creeks, and small ponds that my family owned a chunk of all the way to the top, along with knowing all the neighbors. I was carrying a .22mag Ruger Single-Six OR a .22lr Ruger Mark-II w/(snake/bird shot) OR a .410 bolt action shotgun, whenever I wandered beyond the back yard of my Great-Aunts house which was almost everyday... Rattle snakes, Copperheads, Coyotes, Bobcats, Bears, Feral dogs... "Keep your eyes and ears open. Avoid danger when you can. If you can't scare it away, Put it/them down before it/them puts you down." Now-days My EDC is 9mm compact, with a Judge w/(defense loads) in the nightstand for 3am bedroom doorway situations and a gun-safe next to the dresser & wardrobe. I've been 'Attempted' Mugged/Carjacked 2 times, both dropped the weapons and ran when I drew.

When seconds count the police are only minutes away!

Story 27 reminds me a lot of a similar type of situation that happened in my country (was a few years ago, so i dont remember the exact details) It was about a group of native American teens who snuck onto the farm of a man and were trying to steal things from him, and the man came out, warned them to leave, and when they didn't he shot at and killed I think both of them? Either way, the media made a big deal about it and the whole native American community painted it as a hate crime despite the fact that the teens were trespassing and threatened the guy. Basically made his life hell for years after

The one about the babysitter trying to assault OP stuck with me over all the others, she viewed him as a brother and enjoyed hanging out with him, it just sucks that situation happened and ended the way it did

I always here is your stuff worth more than someone else's life. These stories prove that its not the stuff thats in danger its the people

21:24 brother, you're probably not real big into gun culture. But the way it works varies from kid to kid. Maturity of the kid is assessed and given a gun when the kids deemed ready. Might be 8. Might be 13. I had my first bolt action at 5. 8 is very realistic. And the drag was probably happening by the collar.

Hello. I am going to explain why 8 year olds are capable of handelling firearms. I am a conservative, born an raised. Im currently 14, with awesome parents. When I was about 4, my dad began to keep a gun nearby while he slept, ya know, for home intruders and such. My dad drilled gun safety in my head, and since i wasnt a total gen alpha brainrotted child, I understood. I never touched a firearm that my dad had out. When I was 6, my dad started teaching me how to safely and effectively use firearms. We had this 22LR (very small round) M1 Carbine, and before we even got close to the range, he had told me every last aspect of this gun, and what every little button and such would do. He once again drilled gunsafety into my head and we headed out to our range. I was able to knock over cans from 25 yards+ away with little to no miss-placed shots. Over the years I got better and better, and by the time I was 8, I was shooting a Glock 19X that we had. About this time, my dad also introduced me to the AR-15 platform. At 8 years old, I could handell a .223 AR really good. I'm not saying that all 8 year olds are capable of handelling firearms, i'm saying that with the proper training, such as OP had in that situation, an 8 year old can effectively use a firearm for self defense or just for good ol' can plinking. Now that I am 14, I am skilled in the AR platform, along with many handguns, lever -actions, etc. Shooting cans and paper targets is a great way of bonding with my father and relieving stress from work (yes I have a part time job, it aint much but it pays), my relationship, and the overall home life. I hope this kind of gives an explanation on the country mans way of thinking when it comes to children and guns. Thank you so much for the content you make, and have an awesome day, @undersparked.

Yeah wow, one of my mom's friends was stabbed 13 or something times protecting a girl at a party, I think the attacker was shot or stabbed can remember tho. The guy that was stabbed 13 times lived tho.

1) Yes, 8 year olds can be taught to use a rifle. It seems a bit young to me, but it paid off in this instance. 2) His mom was being drug, *not* carried. She's on the ground, while the guy was (at most) bent over her. Given the circumstances, probably not even bent over.

.22 is still a bullet. Zero recoil even for a child

I’m one who likes to believe that no one deserves to die but the way people just blindly ignore warnings several times just shows they really don’t value their lives as much as they should

To all of the fellow veterans, please don't stress out about this it was you or them and I am glad you all came home!!

I feel for the guy that was turned into the villain. There was a home invasion robbery in my neighborhood and the resident shot all 3 of them, but ended up killing the youngest. He was 16. His mother kept trying get media support to put pressure on the DA to prosecute. She tried everything. But everyone involved was black, the kid was at the home at 3 am, she didn't even know he wasn't home. They knew the homeowner shouldn't have been home because he typically came home at 4 am. The only thing she kinda had in her favor was this wasn't long after Parkland, and AR-15s were a hot topic. His gun was legal and registered. That's what the homeowner used. Nobody took her side. She tried to leave a memorial at his house, he said no, then on the corner, the HOA said no. Finally, she got a small cross and flowers on the corner that wasn't part of the HOA. It said "he was only 16".

Your commentary at the end of story 11 is a big part of why I personally try to condition myself as a concealed carrier. I'm not wanting to harm someone but I have to drill myself on the knowledge that some people may want to harm me and will possibly force my hand one day. I think that mental conditioning allows it to be easier to cope with because it creates a rational disconnect from the situation by which one can tell themselves that their attacker is to blame for their untimely demise.

Im assuming the story with the 8yo OP was, in fact, an 8yo OP. Its not unusual for young children to be taught by their parents how to shoot and handle guns, especially something like a .22; usually for hunting, but also to teach proper gun safety.

Nothing worse than trial by media, especially when they print what suits them in sales of papers.

My brother got hus first gun from my parents when he was 10. It was a 30-30 winchester lever action. And my grandfather thought he should have gotten it younger.

OP's story of using a .22 bolt action, I could see it. a .22 is pretty easy to handle and has very little recoil. Esp if OP was living somewhere like a farm or other rural area where police response would be delayed. it could very easily of been done

Moral of the story: don’t rush somebody who is armed.

A smart criminal who's just trying to feed their family or something will back down the instant they realize someone is home. These were not smart criminals. I know it's hard, but I hope the sensitive ones are able to put aside what they had to do. Better you survive than a person so crazy and willing to harm others.

26:56 this one really hit home for me because i’ve always lived very fortunate, not rich, but not poor either, and i never realized how fortunate i was until a “friend” of mine took advantage of me in high school. i also think that it’s really sad that for this girl, she kept quiet as possible before they started threatening sexual assault. it truly is a scary thing, and people always wonder why we’d rather choose bear. this is why.

EDIT: 20:50 8-year-old checks out. .22 ammo is rabbit-killer ammo. It's a step up from a pellet gun, and is like hitting a human hard with a big needle. Also, don't forget child soldiers are a thing. Kids can load and fire an AK-47 in single-shot. When in a life-or-death situation, it's your word. No, not against theirs. They're dead. If they survived "it wasn't a life-or-death situation" says the lawyer and you're an attempted murderer.

I haven't killed anyone in self defense, but I did kill someone's social life in self defense. there was some kid I was friends with who would just invite people over to his house so he could bully them. eventually all of us decided to stop hanging out with him. this was in late elementary school and early middle school, and we ended up getting to see him go through high school with no social life, no friends, always looked depressed, and seemingly did nothing with his life after high school. he graduated a couple years ago, and as far as I know he still lives with his parents, never leaves the house, doesn't have a job, and still has no friends, but then again I haven't heard shit about him in years

Any leadership is just smaller media. It’s how it goes when you start representing large groups of people. It’s an inevitability

That's a lot of "HE" when describing the perpetrators🤷🏽‍♀️

In story 1 the fact they had duct tape made my skin crawl

The only element of the self defence stuff is how your area handles it and legal elements. The world is so wonky and try to do everything possible to blame the person being attacked.

That's a great point to bring up in story 12, how insenuating feelings in people that they aren't having can make them feel like theres something wrong with them. Whether that story was true or not, I think that's a good thing to remember.

Regarding the guy that was dragging his mom away, she could have been on the ground and he might have been dragging her by her hair or by her arm and she more than likely was not standing up. Also in rural areas, kids are taught very young how to handle guns. 8 years old with a .22 is not that uncommon. Kids around here drive to school with rifles hanging in the back window on a rack. Especially during hunting season.

I imagine the mom being on the ground as he said she was being dragged by her hair...in the backwoods, more common than you think, to teach a child to handle a gun.

21:02 if your raised right like I was I got my first gun at 7. It was a 22 and I got BB guns before that. It’s all about learning and demonstrating gun safety, once i demonstrated good gun safety for a long time my parents got me a 22 and progressed from there. So a kid can easily handle a gun but it’s all about being trained to handle a gun properly. And being able to demonstrate that safety in different circumstances

"Sorry man, you saw my face." *guts mugger* "Sorry man, it was my life over yours. Night night."

The story where the dude only had a laptop, tv, and gun rlly sounds like my dad.

A .22 lr rifle is basically a step above a pellet. So, it's not outside the realm of possibility someone would trust their normal kid with one.

I dont judge anyone in any of these stories. I do feel bad doe those who are having trouble coping with the after effects and fervently hope they seek the help they need. Self forgiveness is often the hardest thing to do.

That co-worker was in on it.

Rules of engagement in the Marines. Civilians in danger? Okay to open fire. Bad guy has a gun on you? Not okay to take a shot. Bad guy has a knife pointed at you? Shoot him. It was a common joke to say, 'shoot first, plant a knife later.' (I'm talking about actual threatening people, not innocents minding their own business. I was in camp gaurd. I'm not a monster.)

9:54 I knew this one would come up… Recognized from someone else's video, still a really hard one to hear again! Thank God for that one quiet moment

I think you really need to check your bias. You seemed a lot harder on OP in story 27 than the other stories. You say you’re socially conscious, but at least at the point I am in the video this is the only one that mentions race and you were harder on OP despite him being slandered and having his life ruined in a completely justified situation. He was in immediate danger just like many of the other stories

Please start posting the game and platform in the description, thanks!!!

No he meant 8. A .22 Is a very small round meant for small game hunting and target practice. The father probably gave him the bolt action as a warm up gun for whenever he got a larger one to practice first.

story 25 dude should not have gotten any jail time. it was an accident AND the dude he killed had literally just got done assaulting a girl. like wtf.

Kids CAN be taught to safely handle a rifle I was left home alone with a loaded rifle for protection from 9 up. I learned to shoot it by about 6, you just have to prop the end on something. A chair/table/counter top, if you’re small. “Let them get inside and shoot.”- Dad. Never had to use it, because he made sure EVERYONE knew what would happen if they came to our house. He was a good man, who helped people, but we lived in the mountains of Tennessee, & also so as hard as steel & cold as ice.

.22s are tiny cartridges. My grandfather taught me how to shoot at 5 with a blowback .22 rifle. My son took his first shot with that same rifle at the age of 4. I've met 8 year old who've taken deer with deer rifles, which use cartridges comparable to those used in the battle rifles of a century ago. .22 is very accurate at short to medium ranges. A common childhood passtime in rural areas is 'plinking', shooting cans off of fences from a distance of several dozen yards. Making such a shot in the heat of the moment is impressive but hardly unbelievable. I've known people who could have picked which eye to hit.

One time when I was 23 I was home alone. I lived with my parents in a big 5 bedroom house. I hear the window shatter downstairs and I know someone is breaking in. I get my gun and start screaming and cussing at them. I always thought that defending myself would be done with no hesitation or qualms but the thought going through my head as I went downstairs to confront them was I really hope I don’t have to shoot anyone. I got downstairs and a pool umbrella had fallen through the window. No attackers or anything.

Okay. Here's a bit of gun knowledge for you. Bolt action rifles come in all sorts. I have seen kindergarten girls at the range practicing with 22LR rifles and pistols. An eight year old kid in the back woods of Nebraska can easily handle a deer hunting rifle from a prone position. And those things are so accurate even a child of eight would have no issue hitting a perp without hurting mom. And a bolt action merely means you have to physically work the action by lifting a handle, pulling the bolt backwards, and reversing this process to chamber the next round. A semiautomatic rifle will shoot, extract the spent casing, and chamber the next round at the pull of the trigger. Some force the trigger forward to make ready for the next shot. Some shotguns and older rifles are pump action, which is similar to a bolt action except that it's actuated by pulling the front hand back towards you and pushing it forward again. Lastly fully automatic firearms, AKA machine guns, do it all without you having to release the trigger.

Story 1: Think if you were in the place of the guys who broke in for a moment. If OP has a gun and is telling you to leave, you’d leave. Pretty much most people would agree, it’s better to get out alive than go further toward the barrel you’re staring down. The person leaving lie any rational person would is how far most gun owners ever hope to go. But given all that, what does it say about a person’s intentions that they then keep coming toward you?

Mine mirrors story 4. Fucked me up for a while, like pills, alcohol, want to fuckin end my life. After years of therapy and finally sobering up, I think that little voice, whatever you wanna call it stopped me over the years. I know with 100% certainty that if I had done it over, yes, I would've still opened fire. I still would have taken 2 lives that day. Better them than us. Have lived with this for over 20 years. Edit: I just realized that today is my ETS day, again over 20 years ago. I think I'm meant to be here.

The 8 yo with the gun. Beautiful. Saved his mom and made his dad proud. Guns are tools, learn to use tools safely and properly.

thanks for bringing back the gaming footage, it's sooo much better

Story 12: YES it’s normal and believable that an 8 year old had and could responsibly handle a .22LR bolt action. That’s the typical age where kids are familiarized with small caliber rifles where I’m from. Responsible parents and good on you OP 🔥

ive ended up having to skip every time i hear the "downstairs i heard my wife screaming" that one triggers me so much as someone who was s/aed (though not.. like violent or anything) its just so scary and im so glad the husband was able to help her as much as he could

Story 12, a bolt action .22 is the ideal gun for a child that age. Quiet and small, slow cycling time but still a useful weapon for both defense and hunting

In the South, especially the country, an 8 yo with a gun is normal.

Man, the headphones story is one of the worst things I've ever heard. Paranoia is why I never have both headphones on, and I'm glad I'm that way sometimes.

Please include the names of the games you use in the gameplay, in the description or somewhere in the video! ^^

Our entire extended family have a general rule that we know to always announce ourselves when entering their homes (we all own keys to each other's homes). We are all armed. We all agree that we will not be announcing our presence to an intruder. We have castle doctrine... Don't break into my home, and we won't have problems 🤷‍♀️ I'm often home alone with my small children, I do not have the luxury to give an intruder an edge.

For your 22(lr) bolt action story 3 things. Very small caliber, so no kick. That’s what I trained on as a kid. Most ammo is super sonic, so flat trajectory, extremely accurate at 75 yards or less, grouping well within a half inch on a good rifle. Lastly, if she was being dragged on the ground by her hair, everything above the back of his knees would be a massive margin for error. Everything for that one is more than possible. Probably still a fake story, but the facts line up to be plausible.

this made me think of my favorite book, and i'm bored, so i'm gonna write an entry from the main characters perspective. i had gone to the drive in movie theater with my friends, who we'll call texas and cupcake. texas was messing with these girls, and cupcake told him to knock it off. texas left, and the girls invited us to sit with them for the rest of the movie. afterwards, we were walking them home when their boyfriends showed up. they were aggressive and threatened to fight us then and there. their girlfriends talked them out of it and left with them, leaving me and cupcake to walk home alone. first, though, we stopped by the vacant lot in our neighborhood and talked for a bit, and eventually we fell asleep. cupcake woke me up, warning me that i had missed my curfew. he decided to stay out in the lot, seeing as his home life wasn't the greatest. when i got home, my older brothers, who we'll call pepsi and cheese, were waiting for me. cheese had guardianship of me and pepsi ever since our parents passed away. cheese and i fought a lot, and pepsi was brought into the middle of it most of the time. anyway, i went inside and cheese immediately started chewing me out for missing my curfew. pepsi tried to calm him down, to get us to talk about it in the morning, but cheese turned on him. i yelled back at cheese for yelling at pepsi, and in a fit of rage, cheese slapped me across the face. i immediately bolted out the door to get cupcake, and we wandered around for a bit, eventually ending up at a playground. remember the girls' boyfriends from earlier? well, they definitely remembered us, because they pulled up and jumped us for 'getting with their girls'. oh yeah, they were drunk, too. they started beating on cupcake, but then they decided to try and drown me in the fountain. i blacked out in the water, and later woke up on the cold pavement. when i looked up, cupcake was holding his switchblade in his hand. it was covered in blood. in front of us was one of the guys who had jumped us. cupcake had stabbed him to keep him and the other guys from drowning me. this is getting pretty long, so these next parts i'm going to shorten a lot. we hid out in an abandoned church in the country until it caught on fire with some schoolchildren trapped inside. cupcake and i managed to rescue them, but the church collapsed with cupcake inside. a few days later, cupcake passed away from his injuries. can anyone guess what this book is?

Story 8 fucked me up man.

The story about the mugging at about story 12 (maybe 11) is slightly op's fault, not like in the "he was asking for the mugging," but in the "this situation did NOT have to go that far." I used to take Karate and one of my instructors said that unless they are asking for you or your family, if someone has a knife or a gun, or any weapon, give them what they want, no questions asked

Gun autist here, anyone referring to ".22 caliber" is most likely referring to .22 long rifle. Despite the name it's actually one of the smallest rounds ever produced measuring roughly 5x15mm. It's quite popular to train kids and hunt rodents with. And 8 year old can absolutely handle it as it has virtually no recoil especially in a bolt action rifle.

I feel especially bad for the veterans in these stories. War is war, and those people they killed would have killed them without a moments hesitation. It's awful that some of those in the (any) service, past or present, feel burdened by doing what they had to do. I hope that they eventually find peace, or at least acceptance. Defending one's country, and by extension one's countrymen, is just as noble as defending one's family.

I'm not very experienced with guns, but I've been to the range once with my friends before. .22 is a very small bullet, and the recoil on those kinds of guns is basically negligible. If I was going to let my kid shoot a gun, it'd almost certainly be a .22. (They also let me shoot a 12 Gauge shotgun, if anyone's curious. That wasn't negligible! xD)

20:50 While it's not recommended, some parents do give their child a firearm in the case of an emergency, and a bolt action .22 is incredibly easy to handle, so it's not entirely unrealistic