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The feuding family members miss the point entirely by focusing on 'grandma's age' or the rifle type. This is a moving and highly emotional story, one of many, of a family destroyed or nearly destroyed by guns in the hands of the wrong people. You may disagree with the author about which or how many guns should be banned, but you cannot argue with the fact that 'grandma' should never have needed to pull the trigger -- intentionally or otherwise.

So glad Carmody's is back! I missed their cheese balls, too!

Privilege is often invisible to those that have it.

"...those rules fly right into the Allegheny like a towering moonshot from PNC Park in July." I vote this "best sentence" in a feel good, home-town story.

I stand with Deitch. Vote left and vote often.

Favorite line, "Now I think twice before I say something, even though I go ahead and say it anyway."

Bravo, Mr. Deitch. Well said, or should I say, "bien dicho?"