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Guns Don’t Kill, People Kill I. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: Have any of you ever had an incident which involved a gun threatening your life? I have! Do you blame the gun or the person? In 1986, when I was 15 years old; I was dating a guy who was in his twenties. We had what you call an unhealthy relationship so I broke up with him. The very next night he showed up with a gun at my grandparents home where I had been living. I believe his intent was to kill me. I was upstairs with my grandparents and I heard something hitting the side of the house, I looked outside and at first, I didn’t see anything. I went downstairs and I looked out the door and at the end of the lane, he was standing, shooting toward the house. I went outside and screamed and hollered and he shot right beside me, I ran down because I knew that he wanted me and I didn’t want him to hurt my grandparents but he had already fled the scene in his car. The cops were immediately called. My great uncle had heard the shooting and walked up to see what was going on and from a distance pellets from the gun had ricocheted off of the trees and went in his flesh on his back. Later on that night, I had found