"For me, guns are about hunting and protecting my family, " the man says, as two children play on tire swings in the background.

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"As I went through my teenage years, the seriousness of what I had been subjected to hit me more and more and I began to go off the rails, particularly as I had no support from my family, " the man said.

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My own mother, a beautiful, uneducated woman from a working-class New York family, and my father, a young southern man from a poor sharecropping family who entered the Marines at the age of 17, represented far more to each other than just romance.

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He was also a family man and my father, a grandfather and a great-grandfather.

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In the meantime, Copeland says her marriage to her best friend and "the man of my dreams" is the only family she needs to create in her lifetime.

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The world has lost a wonderful man today, and my deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends.

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