squirrel it wasn't purty.

He had just gone through a nasty divorce and he didn't like a guy that his ex-wife was seeing at the time. Hiskids lived withher and he didn't want that guy around his kids. So he went over too his ex's house to "express his anger" and "let know what he thought". Well the a-hole guy was actually there and he answered the door. My uncle told the guy what he thought about him, right there on the doorstep and proceeded to force his way in the housetoget his kids. But the a-hole had a .357 in the small of his back and so he "skint that smokewagon" and made noise with it. He stuck it in my uncles gut and pulled the trigger once.

I believe they removed about 25% of my uncles intestines in surgery, yet being in rural Oklahoma (this was in the early 80s) it was ruled justified as I don't remember the guy doing any time out of the deal.

LOL but eventually my uncle DID get custody of his kids!!!
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