alfred avila. guns can fall into the wrong hands and end up on the streets firearms have injured several of avila s friends and family members. it made me want to have a gun when i was younger because i was brought up in violence. so i knew violence, so that s what i wanted to have, but i was scared because of my dad if he found out i had one, or else i would ve probably vila family has a reputation of not being the people you want to mess with. as a young man, avila had to live up to that expectation. i had a situation where my sister, one time had my uncle s gun, and they were playing with it and it was loaded had she pulled it, one of them would ve ended up dead they were nine years old at the time so i just have a big thing about guns. my first time, when i was fourteen years old i had a man put a gun into my chest and that was real scary i started running and when i ran everyone was screaming all i can remember is thinking, gonna shoot? is he gonna shoot? and i just kept running now as a high school football coach...avila sets an example for his players. he uses football as method t