Interesting thread, I have seen a few people die, many of them whilst I was at work (I'm a delivery driver), I believe all human life is sacred. I do not own a gun (we are not allowed to in UK), even if we were I would coose not to buy one.
As for animals, I have worked in a few slaughter-houses and have no problem killing animals for food, but I cannot see why people kill animals for fun, if people like shooting there are plenty of clay pigeon shooting grounds. A few years ago I was first on the scene at a serious road traffic accident, the victim (who died) was a young woman that was 6 months pregnant, I found out later that she had recently married and qualiffied as a teacher.What a waste of life. One of my concerns is road saftey, along with food saftey. Dont get me talking about food saftey, I'll probably wear my keyboard out BG.john