Suicide gun...would you want one?

[Kynoch]

Interestingly enough, it doesn't say anywhere in the Bible that it is a sin to kill yourself. The Pope made that determination (in a century that escapes me) in order to prevent the peasants from killing themselves because life was so difficult.

I can understand someone being bothered by having a possession that was the instrument of death for a loved one. But I do agree that selling the gun would be a practical solution. Getting even with the gun by destroying, seems senseless to me.

Please, no silliness on such a grave matter. There are several biblical proof texts that proscribe suicide. Here's a two quick classics:

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Even if Sacred Scripture didn't prohibit suicide it wouldn't matter as the great majority of the world's Christians do not subscribe to the 16th century man-made notion of "bible-onlyism" anyway.

You completely miss the point if you think destroying or burying the gun is an attempt to "get even" with it.

 

[09corvette]

I do believe that a person who does commit suicide is not of his or her right mind. I also believe that God forgives the ones who are not of the right mind.
This is what gives me comfort.

 

[Kynoch]

I do believe that a person who does commit suicide is not of his or her right mind. I also believe that God forgives the ones who are not of the right mind.
This is what gives me comfort.

Indeed. And in at least my world (Catholic Christianity) psychological and psychiatric issues are indeed considered.

 

[09corvette]

I'm Catholic as well. Thanks for listening and understanding.

 

[exavid]

I don't judge others by their feelings on the matter. I wouldn't care if a gun I had was a suicide or mass murder weapon. It isn't the gun's fault. I might not want one that was used to kill a family member, just because of the memories attached to it.
On the other hand I watched a friend crash and burn in his airplane and salvaged the tailwheel and some other parts from the wreckage. It wasn't the airplane's fault.

 

[wannabeagunsmith]

Bury it?! Are you insane?? The gun was used by a depressed individual who thought life wasnt worth anything anymore and therefore it makes it the person's fault. Not the gun's. Sell the thing so someone can use it to defend their own.

 

[wannabeagunsmith]

And by the way,I am Catholic.

 

[chromerunner]

I would not want one or buy one of knowing prior to purchase.

If I had one that a loved one used I would probably have it destroyed. No need to have it around with a painfully memory. Would be some small splinter of closure and comfort knowing it was gone from this earth. That's just my opinion.

 

[Kynoch]

I would not want one or buy one of knowing prior to purchase.

If I had one that a loved one used I would probably have it destroyed. No need to have it around with a painfully memory. Would be some small splinter of closure and comfort knowing it was gone from this earth. That's just my opinion.

Bingo.

 

[Kynoch]

Bury it?! Are you insane?? The gun was used by a depressed individual who thought life wasnt worth anything anymore and therefore it makes it the person's fault. Not the gun's. Sell the thing so someone can use it to defend their own.

Nope.

You're also wrong to suggest it would be the decedent's fault if indeed they were (clinically) depressed.

FWIW most devout Catholics I know wouldn't ask a rhetorical questions like "Are you insane??"

 

[pockets]

Have I entered a Catholic chat room in error?
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[Robert]

No Pockets, you have not. Religion is not OT for THR.