Suicide at the Range

[Cattle_Dog]

I came across this article while trying to find the contact info of this range that I have been to several times before and after this incident. Interesting read- at least to me.

*I have rented guns before alone. Though I have personal repertoire with one of the employees as did the same gentleman it appears Nonetheless, sad to hear of this.

 

[Cosmoline]

It's a person's choice to leave anytime they want. Though it would be nice if they didn't rent someone else's iron to do it.

 

[Vairochana]

We had a suicide at work just before Xmas.
I work for the State govt in a Commonwealth owned building.
Alot of the offices are welfare/child protection based. I don't know much about the guy who killed himself or his reasons.
He hanged himself in the public toilet and was found by some kids- he died in hospital.
It can happen anywhere and for lots of reasons

 

[MikeWSC]

What a shame. If he suffered from depression or was perhaps bi-polar there
are treatments to help. Had a friend take his life when I was young , still miss him.

Best ........... Mike

 

[Retro]

depression kills... not guns...

 

[SniperStraz]

I admit it is a shame...

... but as a fellow gun lover he did the cause no good by taking his own life with a gun and at a range no less. He just added to the "good" reasons we should be able to have our rights. Soon gun ranges will be illegal because they will be the #1 place for suicides. Not to mention that I'm sure it left a scar on all those around him. He should not have done it at all, but if he had to, he should have done it in his own home with something other than a gun.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

huh

?"Soon gun ranges will be illegal because they will be the #1 place for suicides. "? ya think??

 

[SniperStraz]

I pulled that fact out of nowhere...

... but it can't be a good thing that the stats are that high.

 

[Gbro]

Depression is mighty powerfull condition. Unless someone has had a tast of it there is no way you can ever imagine how powerfull it is.
My many years responding to varyious emergencys caused by depresion are unforgetable. The ones that bother me the most is vehicular suicide.
One that makes me shudder is a case where the deperessed person ran about 10 cars off the road before hitting a family on vacation head on.
I will never condem someone for checking out by themselves, remember, anyone else around them do not exsist in this so selfish act.
I had a case where the depressed person put a handgun to his head and dropped himself. he came too and walked to a neibors home and asked for help. then layed down figuring he would then pass on, We transported that person and were told where organs were to go and such. You know, I shot myself in the head, shurely i am going to die. Well the bullet didn't penetrate the skull, just followed the skull and did soft tissue damage.
That person recovered and lived manny years before the big "C" took him. The shock of the shot did something?
I do so feel for the familys.

Gbro

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

yea

its not even the statistical number but rather the kinda media hype it could generate. its a shame any way ya cut it

 

[51Cards]

My range and my favorite store both had do-it-yourselfers. Guy at the store says he still remembers the sound from the parking lot. Guy walks in, checks out a couple of shotguns , buys one and a box of shells, goes out to the parking lot. Poor guy at the store (I know, I know, but the other guy isn't worrying about it anymore ...) --- sold him the gun, didn't do anything wrong, still freaked over it.

What a world ...

 

[bogie]

My former favorite gun store (now out of business) had a guy walk in, and "try on" a Mossy cruiser shotgun. They chatted with him, and figured out that he wanted to off himself. They refused to sell to him. He left, and they called every other public FFL they could.

One ******* said "hey, thanks - I'll make sure I don't take a check."

Guy managed to buy something, and ended up committing suicide by cop.

 

[BigBlock]

A few years ago they built a new police station here with it's own indoor range. One of the officers broke it in by shooting himself there with his service weapon...............

 

[Nimitz]

our local range has had at least 1 suicide in the last 10 years are so...sad and selfish way to go out.

Chad