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Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi

IP: 74.227.57.97

Oct 23, 06 - 10:50 AM

Target Practice

WELL, WHAT I THOUGHT TO BE NOT A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME TURNED OUT TO STIR A LOT OF UNWELCOME EMOTIONS I WASN'T PREPARED FOR.
YESTERDAY EVENING AS I SAT IN MY COMATOS STATE LOOKING AS I USUALLY DO WHEN I'M LEFT ALONE FOR TO LONG, CHRIS ASKED ME TO RIDE WITH HIM TO THE HUNTING CAMP TO PUT UP ANOTHER DEER STAND AND CHECK THE CAMERAS. HE THEN SUGGESTED THAT I BRING MY GUN (A S/W 357) AND DO SOME TARGET PRACTICE. I HAVEN'T SHOT THIS GUN SINCE CHRISTOPHER'S MURDER. ALTHOUGH I CARRY IT WITH ME ESPECIALLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE NEW MISSISSIPPI STATE LAW SAYS THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY SHOOT ANYONE THREATENING YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HOME, CAR, OR WORK. AND EVERYONE TELLS ME TO BE AWARE OF MY SURROUNDINGS DUE TO JJ's FAMILY. WELL OK, SO THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA AFTERALL. SINCE CHRIS IS ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE ME FACE SOME OF MY GREATEST FEARS.

AS I HELD IT WAITING FOR A TARGET OF CANS TO AIM AT, I COULDN'T HELP BUT BE TAKEN BACK TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS THE EXCACT SAME TYPE OF GUN THAT JJ USED TO KILL CHRISTOPHER. I THEN WANTED NO MORE TO DO WITH THE ORDEAL... BUT CHRIS WOULDN'T HEAR OF IT. HE SAID IF YOU DON'T DEAL WITH IT... YOUR GONNA NEED IT AT SOME TIME AND YOUR GONNA FEAK OUT LIKE YOUR DOING NOW AND YOUR GONNA BE THE ONE GETTING SHOT... SO WE PRESSED FORWARD WITH TEARS TO WIPE AWAY SO I COULD SEE. ALTHOUGH IT WAS DUSK BY THIS TIME AND I'M PRETTY BLIND AT THAT TIME OF DAY. SO HERE I GO WITH THE FIRST SHOT.
THEN I HEAR "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR EYE'S SHUT?" WELL, I HAD ANOTHER TIME FLASH. THE FIRE AT THE END OF THE BARREL BROUGHT BACK A VERY SCARY MOMENT OF THE NIGHT I WAS ON THE OTHER END OF A 357 AND SAW THAT FLASH OF FIRE JUST BEFORE I WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY A MUGGER. OK! NOW I'M DONE. I'M NOT SHOOTING THIS THING. "OH YES YOU ARE". AND HE HAD AN IDEA. WE GOT BACK IN THE TRUCK AND DROVE A WAYS FURTHER ON THE GRAVEL ROAD TO WHERE WE REACHED THE HIGHEST POING OF THE PROPERTY AND THERE IN THE FAR DISTANCE YOU COULD SEE THE LIGHTS OF THE PRISON (WHERE JJ HAS BEEN STORED AT). SO HE SAID FORGET THE TARGETS, YOU HAVE OTHER ISSUES TO GET TO FIRST. HE SAID JUST POINT TOWARD THE LIGHTS AND KEEP SHOOTING...
BUT AFTER THE FIRST SHOT I REMEMBERED JJ SAYING IN COURT THAT THE GUN WENT OFF BY ACCIDENT. BUT THE BALISTICS LAB SAID IT HAD TO HAVE 15 lbs OF PRESSURE TO FIRE. AND NOW I KNEW FOR A FACT IT DIDN'T JUST GO OFF. IT WAS HARD TO PULL THE TRIGGER. SO I SYKED MYSELF UP TO AIM AT JJ AND KEPT SHOOTING. ONLY ONE PROBLEM... I STILL KEEP SHUTING MY EYES AT THE FIRE.
AFTER UNLOADING A FEW ROUNDS AT JJ AND RELOADING A COUPLE MORE TIMES I HAD HAD ENOUGH.
WELL IT WAS A START, BUT NOW I WANT TO REALLY CONCOR THIS TOTAL FEAR. AFTER ALL JJ WILL BE OUT IN LESS THAN A YEAR. AND IF HIS FAMILY'S THREATS ARE FOR REAL, WELL I BETTER NOT BE STILL SHUTTING MY EYES.

SORRY TO GO ON AND ON, BUT I DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS AN ISSUE UNTIL I ACTUALLY TRIED TO FACE IT.
I JUST HAVE A HARD TIME IMAGINING HOW SO MANY THUGS CARRY THESE GUNS AND TO THEM IT IS JUST NOTHING TO PULL IT OUT AND SHOOT SOMEONE. ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE SHOT THEIR FRIENDS AS JJ DID. GUESS THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND.

THANKS FOR LISTENING GIRL,
I LOVE YOU FOR BEING SUCH GOOD SOUNDING BOARDS, AFTER ALL NOBODY ELSE EVER WANTS TO HEAR THE THINGS WE HAVE TO VENT ABOUT.

KARREN ( FUTURE ANNIE OKLEY ) hah!

Lorre

IP: 207.200.116.70

Oct 23rd, 2006 - 5:21 PM

Re: Target Practice

Dear Karren,

I love your crazy ass! Why don't you take your gun to a shooting range in a different (way different) town and get some help from an arms specialist. Chris wants you to learn how to protect yourself--go to a professional-and while you're at it, learn to kick some butt hand to hand style too. Remember the Mom in Terminator II? Let her be your role model. Don't go around shooting in the dark Mississippi night or they'll take you away girl! We love you!

Love,
Lorre

Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi

IP: 72.24.130.78

Oct 23rd, 2006 - 7:04 PM

Re: Target Practice

MAYBE THAT LONG HIKE UP HILL FROM DOWN IN THE WOODS TO RETREAVE THAT DISC FROM THE CAMERA CUT OF OXYGEN TO MY BRAIN. OOPPPPPSS! SORRY! I SHOULD KNOW THAT US MOMS NO LONGER HAVE A BRAIN... WE'RE ALL C-R-A-Z-Y.
I KNOW THAT'S WHAT SOME SAY ABOUT ME. hah!
WE HAVE A SHERIFF'S RANGE DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE HOUSE, BUT MY THOUGHT IS THAT SINCE OUR STUPID SHERIFF KNOWS I'M AFTER HIS ASS IN THE COMING ELECTION, HE MIGHT OBJECT TO ME GOING THERE. WHATDA' YA' THINK?
WHAT WE DID KNOW WAS THAT THERE WAS ONLY 2 OTHER MEMBERS AT THE CAMP AND THEY WERE ALREADY OUT OF THE WOODS. (2,000 ACRES) SO SHORT OF THE GAME WARDEN.... WE WERE ALONE.
BUT I DO SEE WHAT YOUR SAYING....
THANKS FOR THE LOVE AND THE WORDS OF WISDOM.
AS MY CHRISTOPHER WOULD HAVE SAID..."YOU ROCK".
LOVE YA,
KARREN

Lorre

IP: 207.200.116.70

Oct 23rd, 2006 - 7:34 PM

Re: Target Practice

Well, at least Chris is trying to help you out. I have never been around guns, but I do understand the motivation of shooting toward the lights...that probably felt good. It would be cool for you to train somewhere else. Because if anyone ever does come after you, you want to keep your eyes open so you can watch as they try and run away :)

XOXO

Tracey (Terrell's MOM)

IP: 141.152.28.247

Oct 23rd, 2006 - 9:18 PM

Re: Target Practice

Karren, I truly believe that Chris is protecting his mother or at the very least making sure you are prepared. I like Lorre, have never shot a gun but you really make it appealing. Lorre is right, you need to be careful but keep on shooting Girl, and if you get tired of shooting at JJ, started shooting at the murderers of our children just make sure your eyes are WIDE OPEN!!!!

Love you
Your sister in Craziness (with a capital C)
Tracey

P.S., on second thought, we are not the ones that are crazy, the world is the one that is crazy, people approaching us with stupidity in the form of comfort is crazy, close friends leaving us in our darkest hour is crazr, the judicial system is crazy, having our special children cut down in the prime of their life by murder is crazy. We are as SANE AS CAN BE!!! Because if we weren't we would be locked up for murder by now.

Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi

IP: 74.227.57.97

Oct 24th, 2006 - 8:37 AM

Re: Target Practice

Tracey,
Your right, we've had to keep some sense about us to keep telling ourselves NOT to go out and kill these little paresites.
I have just got to get over these fears with the gun. For my own good. I've had it since Mandi was in High School (she's now 29) and we use to travel to the out of town ball games for her cheerleading. And sometimes it was just myself, her and Christopher if we didn't follow the buses back. But so much has happened since then to make me affraid of it. But I'm gonna press on. yeeeeehaaaaa!
I just love ya'll so much,
Thank God for bringing us together,
Karren

Yvonne Sheppard (Josh Underwood's mom)

IP: 69.241.17.64

Oct 26th, 2006 - 3:21 PM

Re: Target Practice

Hi,
As a disabled police officer, I can tell you that I have been very comfortable with firearms for a long time. I cannot stand to look at one right now, even in a cartoon. What makes me sicker than sick, is that most firearms people have in their homes to protect themselves, and their families, end up in the wrong hands. I NEVER used to agree with gun control, my sons murderer stole his parents gun, went and shot my son to death. Food for thought.
Love from Tn,
Yvonne

Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi

IP: 72.24.130.78

Oct 26th, 2006 - 8:26 PM

Re: Target Practice

Hi Yvonne,
I admire the fact that you were a police officer. I always wanted to be an investigator, but life just didn't permit that. I understand exactly what your saying. JJ stold his fathers gun and killed Christopher with it. I have always agreed with gun control. But in our house there are no kids and I have no grandkids either. My fiencee' Chris is always worried about me defending myself because of this family. We live in the country...no close neighbors... and he's often gone to the airport,the firedepartment or hunting until late. I'm only forcing myself for my own good. Was your disability caused by a gun?
God Bless You,
Karren

Kayt Fossler

IP: 216.98.171.7

Oct 26th, 2006 - 8:28 PM

Re: Target Practice

I live in Arkansas, guns were always in our home. My sons, exspecially Wes, was an exellent marksman. My children were taught to respect guns, to respect life and huntiing was for meat, a supplment to our meger lifestyle.When the two boys, that murdered my son showed up at his house with a 22 rifle, they borrowed from a friend, to target shoot (their reason they gave for being there) he and his friend, thought nothing of it. The cowards they were, led them ,to lure my son outside and while he was bending over to get one of his pet lizards out of the cage, Kyle Hill, walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head. I still pray Wes, had no idea what happened to him.

I think one of the keys to all of this is respect or lack of it as it may be. We taught our sons, to respect life and to respect each other and to except people for who they are.I don't see any of that from those who have taken the lives of our children. Is it something the rest of the world if oblivious of!!!!!!

I don't allow guns in my house any more, I don't let my grandsons play with them, around me and I have explained to them, why I feel so strongly about it.My husband and son don't nessarily agree with me but they do respect my new found feelings.

I use to shoot all the time but now it's all I can do to keep from throwing up at the site of a rifle. I would likely starve to death before hunting again but that is just me and how this, has effected me. We all need to do what we have to , to get through our loss and get on with living, something I still find myself doing one day at a time but that is better than one minute at a time, which I was doing not so long ago.

Our husbands, our boyfriends our families, just want us to be back again but I don't know if that is possible. I know I am not the woman I was before my son was murdered but I'm not unhappy with who I am, just a little sad I had to get here, this way.

Peace be with you on this journey,
Kayt, Wes's mom

Kathy Mordecai "Ty's Mom"

IP: 70.143.61.217

Oct 28th, 2006 - 10:03 PM

Re: Target Practice

Karen---

You just keep up with the Target Practice, as you said this "thing" will be out soon and you should know and be prepared to defend yourself against him or others like him. I am trained, and know all to well how to handle a gun, but since my son's murder, I can't even stand to look at the weapon that in the hands of a cold-blooded murderer took my yound son's life and the life of a father to a 3 year old little boy who thought, no he knew his daddy walked on water. I have been threatened by the slime that murdered my son, the following day after my picture was published in the McAlester News Capital Newspaper along with my picket sign in front of the courthouse--My sign said---I DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MY MURDERED SON!! IT WAS PRE-MEDITATED MURDER!!! This ---thing--called my telephone and blocked the number, but I had talked to him on the phone before, many times, my son actually worked for this ___________ at one time and was actually at one time friends with him. He stated "IF YOU DON'T STOP YOU **** AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE LAYING RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR SON"!!!!!!!!!!!! A few days later, his so-called girlfriend, told a friend of mine and of my son't that "IF I THOUGHT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SON WAS BAD, I HAD NOT SEEN NOTHIN YET COMPARED TO WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME"---- So you continue to practice and overcome your fears, just as I must now overcome mine------------My words to them following those threats on my life--------BRING IT ON ?????!!!!!*****YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME. I WILL NOT STOP THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR MY MURDERED SON---NOT NOW---NOT EVER-----Be strong, I know it is hard, I am finding it harder and harder to cope with each and everyday--especially when Ty's 3 year old little boy cries and asks when his Daddy Will Be Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!Be STRONG AND HOPEFULLY I ALONG WITH ALL OF US WILL DO THE SAME!!!!!!!!!((((HUGS))))

Kathy "Ty's Mom"

Yvonne Sheppard (Joshie Underwood\'s mom)

IP: 71.203.250.255

Dec 1st, 2006 - 1:05 PM

Re: Target Practice

Karren,
I understand the feeling that you need to protect your family from either the murderers, or the murderers family. The juvenile involved in my son's murder has been released, and still has NOT been charged in my son's murder. He was incarcerated for shooting into an occuppied house about 30 seconds after he shot my son. My address is on the police report,because my middle son is a witness to the murder, and was shot also(grazing wound).
I still have weapons in the house. At this point, I dont have any choice. They are locked away, which kind of defeats the purpose, but with my middle son in such a fragile emotional state,,I sure dont want him having access.
Love,
Yvonne

michele

IP: 71.97.129.97

Dec 2nd, 2006 - 6:59 AM

Re: Target Practice

tracey,
you always have the most insightful things to say. i always have the impression that people think i am crazy. and i think, "well, walk in my shoes for a minute. you would be too!" but i am not crazy and you are right-it is the people who kill our children that are crazy, not us. and how dare they put their bad behavior(to put it mildly) onto us!
i have people tell me all the time that "it must be nice" to only work three, three hour shifts per week. my reply is "wanna trade lives?" i am not lazy. it has taken me six yrs just to get to the point of being able to work as much as i do.i support myself so how dare they judge me. thanks for your insight.

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Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi IP: 74.227.57.97 Oct 23, 06 - 10:50 AM	Target Practice WELL, WHAT I THOUGHT TO BE NOT A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME TURNED OUT TO STIR A LOT OF UNWELCOME EMOTIONS I WASN'T PREPARED FOR. YESTERDAY EVENING AS I SAT IN MY COMATOS STATE LOOKING AS I USUALLY DO WHEN I'M LEFT ALONE FOR TO LONG, CHRIS ASKED ME TO RIDE WITH HIM TO THE HUNTING CAMP TO PUT UP ANOTHER DEER STAND AND CHECK THE CAMERAS. HE THEN SUGGESTED THAT I BRING MY GUN (A S/W 357) AND DO SOME TARGET PRACTICE. I HAVEN'T SHOT THIS GUN SINCE CHRISTOPHER'S MURDER. ALTHOUGH I CARRY IT WITH ME ESPECIALLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE NEW MISSISSIPPI STATE LAW SAYS THAT YOU CAN LEGALLY SHOOT ANYONE THREATENING YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HOME, CAR, OR WORK. AND EVERYONE TELLS ME TO BE AWARE OF MY SURROUNDINGS DUE TO JJ's FAMILY. WELL OK, SO THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA AFTERALL. SINCE CHRIS IS ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE ME FACE SOME OF MY GREATEST FEARS. AS I HELD IT WAITING FOR A TARGET OF CANS TO AIM AT, I COULDN'T HELP BUT BE TAKEN BACK TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS THE EXCACT SAME TYPE OF GUN THAT JJ USED TO KILL CHRISTOPHER. I THEN WANTED NO MORE TO DO WITH THE ORDEAL... BUT CHRIS WOULDN'T HEAR OF IT. HE SAID IF YOU DON'T DEAL WITH IT... YOUR GONNA NEED IT AT SOME TIME AND YOUR GONNA FEAK OUT LIKE YOUR DOING NOW AND YOUR GONNA BE THE ONE GETTING SHOT... SO WE PRESSED FORWARD WITH TEARS TO WIPE AWAY SO I COULD SEE. ALTHOUGH IT WAS DUSK BY THIS TIME AND I'M PRETTY BLIND AT THAT TIME OF DAY. SO HERE I GO WITH THE FIRST SHOT. THEN I HEAR "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR EYE'S SHUT?" WELL, I HAD ANOTHER TIME FLASH. THE FIRE AT THE END OF THE BARREL BROUGHT BACK A VERY SCARY MOMENT OF THE NIGHT I WAS ON THE OTHER END OF A 357 AND SAW THAT FLASH OF FIRE JUST BEFORE I WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD BY A MUGGER. OK! NOW I'M DONE. I'M NOT SHOOTING THIS THING. "OH YES YOU ARE". AND HE HAD AN IDEA. WE GOT BACK IN THE TRUCK AND DROVE A WAYS FURTHER ON THE GRAVEL ROAD TO WHERE WE REACHED THE HIGHEST POING OF THE PROPERTY AND THERE IN THE FAR DISTANCE YOU COULD SEE THE LIGHTS OF THE PRISON (WHERE JJ HAS BEEN STORED AT). SO HE SAID FORGET THE TARGETS, YOU HAVE OTHER ISSUES TO GET TO FIRST. HE SAID JUST POINT TOWARD THE LIGHTS AND KEEP SHOOTING... BUT AFTER THE FIRST SHOT I REMEMBERED JJ SAYING IN COURT THAT THE GUN WENT OFF BY ACCIDENT. BUT THE BALISTICS LAB SAID IT HAD TO HAVE 15 lbs OF PRESSURE TO FIRE. AND NOW I KNEW FOR A FACT IT DIDN'T JUST GO OFF. IT WAS HARD TO PULL THE TRIGGER. SO I SYKED MYSELF UP TO AIM AT JJ AND KEPT SHOOTING. ONLY ONE PROBLEM... I STILL KEEP SHUTING MY EYES AT THE FIRE. AFTER UNLOADING A FEW ROUNDS AT JJ AND RELOADING A COUPLE MORE TIMES I HAD HAD ENOUGH. WELL IT WAS A START, BUT NOW I WANT TO REALLY CONCOR THIS TOTAL FEAR. AFTER ALL JJ WILL BE OUT IN LESS THAN A YEAR. AND IF HIS FAMILY'S THREATS ARE FOR REAL, WELL I BETTER NOT BE STILL SHUTTING MY EYES. SORRY TO GO ON AND ON, BUT I DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS AN ISSUE UNTIL I ACTUALLY TRIED TO FACE IT. I JUST HAVE A HARD TIME IMAGINING HOW SO MANY THUGS CARRY THESE GUNS AND TO THEM IT IS JUST NOTHING TO PULL IT OUT AND SHOOT SOMEONE. ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE SHOT THEIR FRIENDS AS JJ DID. GUESS THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND. THANKS FOR LISTENING GIRL, I LOVE YOU FOR BEING SUCH GOOD SOUNDING BOARDS, AFTER ALL NOBODY ELSE EVER WANTS TO HEAR THE THINGS WE HAVE TO VENT ABOUT. KARREN ( FUTURE ANNIE OKLEY ) hah! Email: cats5amongus@yahoo.com
Lorre IP: 207.200.116.70 Oct 23rd, 2006 - 5:21 PM	Re: Target Practice Dear Karren, I love your crazy ass! Why don't you take your gun to a shooting range in a different (way different) town and get some help from an arms specialist. Chris wants you to learn how to protect yourself--go to a professional-and while you're at it, learn to kick some butt hand to hand style too. Remember the Mom in Terminator II? Let her be your role model. Don't go around shooting in the dark Mississippi night or they'll take you away girl! We love you! Love, Lorre Email: Lorresmf@aol.com Website: http://www.taelor-marks.memory-of.com
Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi IP: 72.24.130.78 Oct 23rd, 2006 - 7:04 PM	Re: Target Practice MAYBE THAT LONG HIKE UP HILL FROM DOWN IN THE WOODS TO RETREAVE THAT DISC FROM THE CAMERA CUT OF OXYGEN TO MY BRAIN. OOPPPPPSS! SORRY! I SHOULD KNOW THAT US MOMS NO LONGER HAVE A BRAIN... WE'RE ALL C-R-A-Z-Y. I KNOW THAT'S WHAT SOME SAY ABOUT ME. hah! WE HAVE A SHERIFF'S RANGE DOWN THE ROAD FROM THE HOUSE, BUT MY THOUGHT IS THAT SINCE OUR STUPID SHERIFF KNOWS I'M AFTER HIS ASS IN THE COMING ELECTION, HE MIGHT OBJECT TO ME GOING THERE. WHATDA' YA' THINK? WHAT WE DID KNOW WAS THAT THERE WAS ONLY 2 OTHER MEMBERS AT THE CAMP AND THEY WERE ALREADY OUT OF THE WOODS. (2,000 ACRES) SO SHORT OF THE GAME WARDEN.... WE WERE ALONE. BUT I DO SEE WHAT YOUR SAYING.... THANKS FOR THE LOVE AND THE WORDS OF WISDOM. AS MY CHRISTOPHER WOULD HAVE SAID..."YOU ROCK". LOVE YA, KARREN Email: cats5amongus@yahoo.com
Lorre IP: 207.200.116.70 Oct 23rd, 2006 - 7:34 PM	Re: Target Practice Well, at least Chris is trying to help you out. I have never been around guns, but I do understand the motivation of shooting toward the lights...that probably felt good. It would be cool for you to train somewhere else. Because if anyone ever does come after you, you want to keep your eyes open so you can watch as they try and run away :) XOXO Email: Lorresmf@aol.com Website: http://www.taelor-marks.memory-of.com
Tracey (Terrell's MOM) IP: 141.152.28.247 Oct 23rd, 2006 - 9:18 PM	Re: Target Practice Karren, I truly believe that Chris is protecting his mother or at the very least making sure you are prepared. I like Lorre, have never shot a gun but you really make it appealing. Lorre is right, you need to be careful but keep on shooting Girl, and if you get tired of shooting at JJ, started shooting at the murderers of our children just make sure your eyes are WIDE OPEN!!!! Love you Your sister in Craziness (with a capital C) Tracey P.S., on second thought, we are not the ones that are crazy, the world is the one that is crazy, people approaching us with stupidity in the form of comfort is crazy, close friends leaving us in our darkest hour is crazr, the judicial system is crazy, having our special children cut down in the prime of their life by murder is crazy. We are as SANE AS CAN BE!!! Because if we weren't we would be locked up for murder by now. Email: tevans405@msn.com
Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi IP: 74.227.57.97 Oct 24th, 2006 - 8:37 AM	Re: Target Practice Tracey, Your right, we've had to keep some sense about us to keep telling ourselves NOT to go out and kill these little paresites. I have just got to get over these fears with the gun. For my own good. I've had it since Mandi was in High School (she's now 29) and we use to travel to the out of town ball games for her cheerleading. And sometimes it was just myself, her and Christopher if we didn't follow the buses back. But so much has happened since then to make me affraid of it. But I'm gonna press on. yeeeeehaaaaa! I just love ya'll so much, Thank God for bringing us together, Karren Email: cats5amongus@yahoo.com
Yvonne Sheppard (Josh Underwood's mom) IP: 69.241.17.64 Oct 26th, 2006 - 3:21 PM	Re: Target Practice Hi, As a disabled police officer, I can tell you that I have been very comfortable with firearms for a long time. I cannot stand to look at one right now, even in a cartoon. What makes me sicker than sick, is that most firearms people have in their homes to protect themselves, and their families, end up in the wrong hands. I NEVER used to agree with gun control, my sons murderer stole his parents gun, went and shot my son to death. Food for thought. Love from Tn, Yvonne
Karren ~ Christopher's Mom in Mississippi IP: 72.24.130.78 Oct 26th, 2006 - 8:26 PM	Re: Target Practice Hi Yvonne, I admire the fact that you were a police officer. I always wanted to be an investigator, but life just didn't permit that. I understand exactly what your saying. JJ stold his fathers gun and killed Christopher with it. I have always agreed with gun control. But in our house there are no kids and I have no grandkids either. My fiencee' Chris is always worried about me defending myself because of this family. We live in the country...no close neighbors... and he's often gone to the airport,the firedepartment or hunting until late. I'm only forcing myself for my own good. Was your disability caused by a gun? God Bless You, Karren Email: cats5amongus@yahoo.com
Kayt Fossler IP: 216.98.171.7 Oct 26th, 2006 - 8:28 PM	Re: Target Practice I live in Arkansas, guns were always in our home. My sons, exspecially Wes, was an exellent marksman. My children were taught to respect guns, to respect life and huntiing was for meat, a supplment to our meger lifestyle.When the two boys, that murdered my son showed up at his house with a 22 rifle, they borrowed from a friend, to target shoot (their reason they gave for being there) he and his friend, thought nothing of it. The cowards they were, led them ,to lure my son outside and while he was bending over to get one of his pet lizards out of the cage, Kyle Hill, walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the head. I still pray Wes, had no idea what happened to him. I think one of the keys to all of this is respect or lack of it as it may be. We taught our sons, to respect life and to respect each other and to except people for who they are.I don't see any of that from those who have taken the lives of our children. Is it something the rest of the world if oblivious of!!!!!! I don't allow guns in my house any more, I don't let my grandsons play with them, around me and I have explained to them, why I feel so strongly about it.My husband and son don't nessarily agree with me but they do respect my new found feelings. I use to shoot all the time but now it's all I can do to keep from throwing up at the site of a rifle. I would likely starve to death before hunting again but that is just me and how this, has effected me. We all need to do what we have to , to get through our loss and get on with living, something I still find myself doing one day at a time but that is better than one minute at a time, which I was doing not so long ago. Our husbands, our boyfriends our families, just want us to be back again but I don't know if that is possible. I know I am not the woman I was before my son was murdered but I'm not unhappy with who I am, just a little sad I had to get here, this way. Peace be with you on this journey, Kayt, Wes's mom Email: kaytfossler@yahoo.com Website: http://wesley-matheson.memory-of.com
Kathy Mordecai "Ty's Mom" IP: 70.143.61.217 Oct 28th, 2006 - 10:03 PM	Re: Target Practice Karen--- You just keep up with the Target Practice, as you said this "thing" will be out soon and you should know and be prepared to defend yourself against him or others like him. I am trained, and know all to well how to handle a gun, but since my son's murder, I can't even stand to look at the weapon that in the hands of a cold-blooded murderer took my yound son's life and the life of a father to a 3 year old little boy who thought, no he knew his daddy walked on water. I have been threatened by the slime that murdered my son, the following day after my picture was published in the McAlester News Capital Newspaper along with my picket sign in front of the courthouse--My sign said---I DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MY MURDERED SON!! IT WAS PRE-MEDITATED MURDER!!! This ---thing--called my telephone and blocked the number, but I had talked to him on the phone before, many times, my son actually worked for this ___________ at one time and was actually at one time friends with him. He stated "IF YOU DON'T STOP YOU ** AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE LAYING RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR SON"!!!!!!!!!!!! A few days later, his so-called girlfriend, told a friend of mine and of my son't that "IF I THOUGHT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY SON WAS BAD, I HAD NOT SEEN NOTHIN YET COMPARED TO WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME"---- So you continue to practice and overcome your fears, just as I must now overcome mine------------My words to them following those threats on my life--------BRING IT ON ?????!!!!!*YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME. I WILL NOT STOP THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR MY MURDERED SON---NOT NOW---NOT EVER-----Be strong, I know it is hard, I am finding it harder and harder to cope with each and everyday--especially when Ty's 3 year old little boy cries and asks when his Daddy Will Be Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!Be STRONG AND HOPEFULLY I ALONG WITH ALL OF US WILL DO THE SAME!!!!!!!!!((((HUGS)))) Kathy "Ty's Mom" Email:** sebacathorn@sbcglobal.net
Yvonne Sheppard (Joshie Underwood\'s mom) IP: 71.203.250.255 Dec 1st, 2006 - 1:05 PM	Re: Target Practice Karren, I understand the feeling that you need to protect your family from either the murderers, or the murderers family. The juvenile involved in my son's murder has been released, and still has NOT been charged in my son's murder. He was incarcerated for shooting into an occuppied house about 30 seconds after he shot my son. My address is on the police report,because my middle son is a witness to the murder, and was shot also(grazing wound). I still have weapons in the house. At this point, I dont have any choice. They are locked away, which kind of defeats the purpose, but with my middle son in such a fragile emotional state,,I sure dont want him having access. Love, Yvonne Email: bluangl27o@aol.com
michele IP: 71.97.129.97 Dec 2nd, 2006 - 6:59 AM	Re: Target Practice tracey, you always have the most insightful things to say. i always have the impression that people think i am crazy. and i think, "well, walk in my shoes for a minute. you would be too!" but i am not crazy and you are right-it is the people who kill our children that are crazy, not us. and how dare they put their bad behavior(to put it mildly) onto us! i have people tell me all the time that "it must be nice" to only work three, three hour shifts per week. my reply is "wanna trade lives?" i am not lazy. it has taken me six yrs just to get to the point of being able to work as much as i do.i support myself so how dare they judge me. thanks for your insight.