California Gun Owner Explains Why He Feels Partly Responsible for Gun Violence — See What He Did to His Own Firearm in Response

By Liz Klimas

Steve Elliott of California is a self-proclaimed “responsible gun owner.”

In a recent a Facebook post, he explained how he saved up money from a paper route and working at a restaurant to buy his first Browning 12-guage shotgun at 12 years old “in time for dove season.”

“In the years before I could legally drive, I’d tie the Browning across the handlebars of my bike and ride to the fields outside town to hunt,” he continued.

Since his youth, Elliott said that he owned several guns, most recently a handgun for protection. He kept this firearm locked in a safe.

“Like I said, responsible,” he wrote.

“And so while I’d like to believe I’m not part and party to the gun violence that stains America, I can’t. My grandmother shot and killed herself with a gun, and a few years ago my father shot and didn’t quite kill himself with one. My stepbrother died in a murder-suicide with a gun, and the husband of one of my sister’s co-workers was killed in a mass shooting.”

While none of these tragic events involved his gun, Elliott said that with “every new mass shooting, I’m reminded that I bear a portion of the responsibility for …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze